Claims
- 1. The method of fabricating a load beam including shaping a single metal member into a load beam configuration, forming at right angles to said load beam left and right side rails having projecting continuing extents, bending said continuing extents transversely and at right angles to said rails so that said continuing extents and said load beam lie in parallel planes, and bending said continuing extents about their respective longitudinal axes to decrease their radius of curvature outward from said rails, whereby said continuing extents define cam follower structures on said left and right sides of said load beam.
- 2. The method according to claim 1, including also selecting a single metal member comprising a work hardened 300 series stainless steel for said unitary load beam and cam follower.
- 3. The method according to claim 2, including also selecting a stainless steel member having a tensile strength between about 185,000 and 240,000 psi.
REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application claims the benefit of Provisional Application Serial No. 60/027,925, filed Oct. 9, 1996, this application further is a division of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/944,627, filed Oct. 2, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,862,018 which is in turn a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/755,191, filed Nov. 25, 1996, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,742,454.
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