Shock mounting and coil retaining structure for solenoids

Claim 1

IN A SOLENOID, A GENERALLY C-SHAPED STATOR HAVING OPPOSED ARMS SPACED APART PROVIDING A COIL ASSEMBLYRECEIVING SPACED APART PROVIDING A COIL ASSEMBLYEND BY THE BIGHT PORTION OF THE C-SHAPED STATOR AND PROVIDED AT THE END OPPOSITE TO SAID BIGHT PORTION WITH INTURNED ARM PORTIONS TERMINATING SPACED APART PROVIDING AN ARMATURE-RECEIVING OPENING THEREBETWEEN, SAID BIGHT PORTION OF THE STATOR PROVIDED WITH A LUG SPACED BETWEEN THE STATOR ARMS AND PROJECTING UPWARDLY, A COIL ASSEMBLY POSITIONED BETWEEN THE STATOR ARMS SEATED UPON THE BIGHT PORTION OF THE STATOR AND SPACED BELOW THE INTURNED ENDS OF THE STATOR ARMS AND HAVING A PASSAGEWAY THERETHROUGH RECEIVED AT ONE END OVER SAID LUG AND AT THE OPPOSITE END ALIGNED WITH THE ARMATURE-RECEIVING OPENING BETWEEN SAID INTURNED ENDS OF THE ARMS AND A COIL LINER LINING THE WALLS OF SAID PASSAGEWAY AND HAVING A PORTION EXTENDING BEYOND THE COIL TOWARD THE SPACE BETWEEN THE INTURNED ENDS OF THE STATOR ARMS, A T-SHAPED ARMATURE HAVING ITS SHANK PORTION RECIPROCABLY EXTENDING THROUGH THE ARMATURE-RECEIVING OPENING BETWEEN SAID INTURNED ENDS OF THE STATOR ARMS AND INTO SAID COIL PASSAGEWAY, A RESILIENT PAD INTERPOSED BETWEEN THE BIGHT PORTION OF THE STATOR AND THE COIL ASSEMBLY, AND A GENERALLY U-SHAPED RESILIENT CLIP REMOVABLY DEFORMABLY POSITIONED IN THE SPACE BETWEEN THE INTURNED ARM PORTIONS OF THE STATOR AND THE COIL ASSEMBLY WITH THE CLIP EMBRACING THAT PORTION OF THE COIL LINER PROJECTING TOWARD THE SPACE BETWEEN THE INTURNED STATOR ARMS, SAID CLIP HAVING LONGITUDINALLY BOWED ARM POSITIONS AND A BASE PORTION WITH THE BASE PORTION AND THE EXTREMITIES OF SAID ARM PORTIONS BEARING AGAINST THE UPPER END OF THE COIL ASSEMBLY ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE STATOR ARMS RESPECTIVELY AND WITH AN INTERMEDIATEE PORTION OF EACH ARM BOWED UPWARDLY BEARING AGAINST THE UNDERSIDE OF A RESPECTIVE OVERHANGING STATOR ARM PORTION TENSIONING THE COIL ASSEMBLY YIELDINGLY TOWARD SAID RESILIENT PAD WHEREBY SAID COIL ASSEMBLY IS FLOATING HELD BETWEEN SAID PAD AND SAID CLIP WITHIN THE STATOR.