Mechanical linkage joint

Claim 1

A STEERING JOINT COMPRISING A PAIR OF ROD MEANS LYING IN APPROXIMATELY PARALLEL PLANES AND AT LEAST ONE OF WHICH HAS A LOOP ON ONE END, THE LOOP HAVING AN AXIS, THE OTHER SAID ROD MEANS HAVING AN END PORTION EXTENDING INTO SAID LOOP ALONG THE AXIS OF THE LOOP AND HAVING MEANS INTERLOCKING SAID END PORTION WITH SAID LOOP AND PRVENTING RETRACTION FROM SAID LOOP, AND AN ELASTOMERIC CONNECTING MEANS WITHIN SAID LOOP AND MOLDED AND BONDED TO BOTH SAID LOOP AND SAID END PORTION, SAID CONNECTION INCLUDING TWO SUBSTANTIALLY DIAMETRICALLY OPPOSITE LOADING PORTIONS SPACED BY APERTURES DEFINING VOIDS, THE SAID ROD HAVING SAID LOOP EXTENDING ALONG THE DIAMETRIC AXIS OF SAID LOADING PORTIONS, WHEREBY SAID ROD MEANS CAN ROTATE ABOUT SAID JOINT AGAINST RELATIVELY LIGHT FORCE IN THE ELASTOMER DUE TO SAID VOIDS, SAID ROD MEANS BEING RESTRAINED BY SAID LOADING PORTIONS FROM TRANSLATION OF THE TWO ROD MEANS RELATIVE TO EACH OTHER BY CONSIDERABLY GREATER ELASTOMERIC FORCE, WHREBY A LONGITUDINAL FORCE ALONG THE AXIS OF THE SAID ROD MEANS HAVING SAID LOOP, TENDS TO PRODUCE TENSION IN SAID ELASTOMERIC CONNECTING MEANS ON ONE SIDE OF SAID END PORTION AND COMPRESSION IN SAID CONNECTING MEANS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF EACH END PORTION AND TRANSLATION OF SUCH STEERING JOINT, WHICH IN TURN ACT TO CAUSE RELATIVE ROTATION OF THE OTHER SAID ROD MEANS IN A PLANE APPROXIMATELY PARALLEL TO THAT OF THE FIRST NAMED ROD MEANS WITH RESULTANT ROTATION OF SAID END PORTION RELATIVE TO THE AXIS OF SAID LOOP, WHEREBY TORSION IS SET UP IN SAID ELASTOMERIC CONNECTING MEANS ALONG THE PLANE OF SAID LOOP, THE LEVEL OF TORSIONAL FORCE BEING A FRACTION OF WHAT WOULD BE PRESENT IN A SOLID SAID ELASTOMERIC CONNECTING MEANS BECAUSE OF SAID VOIDS.