Traction-wheel mounting with attached drive motor

US3944010A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Zahnradfabrik Friedrichshafen AG · DE

Inventors

• August Winter
• Egon Mann · Friedrichshafen, DE
• Michael Meyerle · Meckenbeuren, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 15, 1974
• Grant date: Mar 16, 1976
• Expiry date: Oct 15, 1994

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60Y2400/73
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

An axle housing which encloses a transmission for the drive of a pair of traction wheels, e.g. as used on a fork-lift truck, has an upper recess flanked by cheeks of enlarged housing extremities which accommodate respective planetary-gear trains. One of the cheeks carries a vertical supporting plate for a hydrostatic drive motor whose shaft enters the axle housing through that cheek and carries a pinion meshing with a toothed ring on a differential-gear housing. The latter housing may be rotatable about a vertical axis through 180.degree. to accommodate motors of different axial length.