Differential mounting and wheel drive arrangement
US3963089A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 2, 1975 |
| Grant date | Jun 15, 1976 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 2, 1995 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB66F9/07572
- WIPO fieldHandling
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
An axle beam has a pair of side plates individually secured to the ends of a pair of vertically spaced upper and lower plates and a vertically disposed plate secured to the forward edges of the upper and lower plate. A pair of wheel drive gears are individually journalled on a pair of spindles individually secured to the outer surfaces of the side plates with the spindles having a horizontal axis extending therethrough. A differential disposed within the axle beam is secured to one of the plates and has a pair of jackshafts extending outwardly from its opposite sides. Each jackshaft extends through an aperture formed in the side plate and has a gear formed on its distal end mating with the respective wheel drive gear. The jackshafts and apertures are radially offset from the horizontal axis a predetermined distance as determined by the mating relation between the gears such that said apertures are located in one of a plurality of positions which are disposed on a pair of diametrically opposite arcs of a circle having the horizontal axis of the spindle as its center and the predetermined distance as its radius, with one of the arcs being disposed forwardly of the horizontal axis.
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