Steering knuckle assembly

Claim 1

In a mounting assembly for a steerable wheel rotatably mounted on a bearing for rotation about a wheel axis, said bearing including a stationary flange, a steering knuckle assembly comprising: a single piece, pressed metal support bracket having an axis and a continuous circumferential strengthening flange with means for mounting said wheel support bracket in a steerable wheel suspension system to pivot about said axis, said support bracket having a flat portion provided with a plurality of equally circumferentially spaced holes, said support bracket being symmetric to a plane passing through said axis, a single piece, elongated pressed metal steering member having a longitudinal axis, said steering member having a flanged steering arm end portion, a flat central portion provided with a plurality of equally circumferentially spaced holes aligned with said first mentioned holes and a bifurcated end portion for mounting a brake reaction member, said steering member being symmetric to a plane passing through said longitudinal axis, means extending through said aligned holes simultaneously securing said support bracket and said steering member to said flange in an asymmetrical configuration with said planes intersecting each other at said wheel axis, said bolt holes being arrayed symmetric to both of said planes whereby said support bracket and said steering member when reversed about said axis and said longitudinal axis respectively and secured to said flange form a corresponding asymmetrical configuration of opposite hand, and said bolt holes being concentric with said wheel axis and being provided in continuous portions respectively of said flat portions of said support bracket and said steering member thereby providing a strong connection between said support bracket, said steering member and said bearing flange.