Mounting arrangement for basket of centrifugal

Claim 1

IN A CENTRIFUGAL HAVING A BASKET SECURED ON A NORMALLY VERTICAL SHAFT CARRYING A PULLEY DRIVEN THROUGH A DRIVE BELT FROM A MOTOR SECURED TO A SIDE OF SAID SHAFT IN RIGID RELATION TO A RIGID BASE STRUCTURE; A FLEXIBLE SUSPENSION FOR THE BASKET COMPRISING A BEARING HOUSING HAVING THE SHAFT JOURNALLED THEREIN, AND AT LEAST THREE MOUNTING ASSEMBLIES EQUALLY SPACED APART AROUND THE AXIS OF SAID SHAFT AND EACH INCLUDING TWO MEMBERS RIGIDLY JOINED TO SAID HOUSING AND TO SAID BASE STRUTURE, RESPECTIVELY, ONE OF SAID MEMBERS OF EACH MOUNTING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A LUG PORTION HAVING A VERTICAL BORE AND BEING SUBSTANTIALLY CENTERED IN A PLANE WHICH IS SUBSTANTIALLY NORMAL TO SAID AXIS AND CONTAINS THE AXIAL AND RADIAL CENTER OF THE PULLEY ON THE BASKET SHAFT AND THE OTHER OF SAID MEMBERS INCLUDING A SPINDLE EXTENDING THROUGH SAID BORE AND HAVING MEANS THEREON DEFINING SHOULDERS EQUALLY ABOVE AND BELOW SAID LUG PORTION IN THE NORMALLY VERTICAL POSITION OF SAID SHAFT, EACH OF SAID MOUNTING ASSEMBLIES FURTHER INCLUDING ELASTOMERIC MEANS INTERPOSED AXIALLY BETWEEN SAID LUG PORTION AND SAID SHOULDERS AND RADIALLY BETWEEN SAID SPINDLE AND LUG PORTION TO YIELDABLY RESIST RELATIVE MOVEMENTS OF THE TWO MEMBERS AND TO CONFINE SAID RELATIVE MOVEMENTS TO MOVEMENTS ABOUT SAID CENTER OF THE PULLEY, WHEREBY GYRATIONS OF THE BASKET IN RESPONSE TO AN IMBALANCE THEREOF OCCUR ABOUT THE CENTER OF THE PULLEY ON THE BASKET SHAFT TO MINIMIZE STRESSING OF THE DRIVE BELT.