Movement support bracket for a pressure gauge

Claim 1

In a pressure gauge including a mechanical movement for driving a pointer from displacement motion of a condition responsive element, said movement including input means adapted to receive displacement motion from said condition responsive element, output means operably coacting with said input means for effecting an output displacement correlated to the input motion received by said input means and a frame supporting said movement and including generally parallel side legs spreadable to receive and retain first and second spaced apart rotatable shafts of said movement, each of said shafts being transversely supported in a snap-in relation directly journalled between said side legs, the improvement comprising said frame being of a generally Y-shape configuration of integral composition including said side legs and a foldover elongated tab joined with said side legs as an integral extension thereof from the vicinity of their inward ends, said tab extending in a direction away from said side legs to provide a distended surface sufficiently removed from the movement supported between said side legs to enable securing the frame and the supported movement in operating relation within said gauge.