Abstract:
A transmission includes multiple lay shaft branches driven by gearing on an input shaft. Each lay shaft branch engages a common output gear and includes a clutch. The input shaft is journalled within a hydraulically adjustable bearing which controls input shaft displacement. When friction clutches are employed in the branches, maximum input shaft displacement is provided after clutch engagement to compensate for different frictional forces in each clutch. If positive locking clutches are employed in the branches, maximum input shaft displacement is permitted prior to engagement of the second clutch to provide synchronism between the primary and secondary components of the second clutch. In one embodiment, the adjustable bearing comprises a thrust bearing which permits axial movement of the input shaft while the input shaft gearing comprises helical ring gears having opposite slope. An alternate embodiment encompasses a single drive gear on the input shaft with the bearing being adjustable to permit transverse displacement of the input shaft axis for movement into planes parallel to a common plane of the branch axes.
Abstract:
A power train with an auxiliary creeper drive system is disclosed which includes an engine, a primary transmission having an output shaft selectively driven by the engine, an auxiliary transmission selectively driven by the engine and operatively associated with the output shaft for driving the output shaft at a creeping rate of speed, and a clutch control arrangement for automatically disconnecting the engine from driving engagement with the output shaft when the auxiliary transmission is drivingly coupled thereto. Such auxiliary creeper drive system is particularly adaptable to the transmission of a fork lift truck.
Abstract:
A compact vehicular drive train including a prime mover or engine with a multispeed transmission arranged below the engine, a transfer gear assembly coupling a flywheel of the engine with the transmission and an accessory power output shaft coaxially coupled to the flywheel along with an input gear for the transfer gear assembly. A compact embodiment of such a transfer gear assembly includes a pair of directional input gears in meshing engagement with each other, one of them also being in meshing engagement with the input gear, the directional input gears being arranged for selective coupling with a transfer output gear.
Abstract:
Clutches controlling motion in opposite directions have actuators movable oppositely, said actuators being moved by operating linkage from a control lever which includes lost motion designed to actuate one of the actuators only in one direction of lever oscillation and the other actuator in the opposite direction of lever oscillation. In a special arrangement, the driven part is locked against movement in either direction by manipulation of the normally stationary linkage to cause both disk packs to be engaged simultaneously.
Abstract:
A POWER TRANSMISSION FOR TRANSMITTING POWER FROM AN INPUT SHAFT AND TO AN OUTPUT SHAFT WHICH IS INCLINED AT AN ANGLE TO THE INPUT SHAFT, SAID TRANSMISSION HAVING MEANS INCLUDING A SECOND SHAFT FOR DRIVING THE INCLINED OUTPUT SHAFT IN THE REVERSE DIRECTION WITH EQUAL POWER TO THAT IN WHICH IT IS DRIVEN IN THE OTHER DIRECTION. THE TRANSMISSION INCLUDES A CLUTCH MEANS FOR THE INPUT SHAFT AND THE SECOND SHAFT AND ALSO INCLUDES MESHING GEARS BETWEEN THE INPUT, SECOND AND OUTPUT SHAFTS AND WHICH GEARS ARE IN CONSTANT MESH WITH ONE ANOTHER AND SELECTIVELY ENGAGED BY THE CLUTCHES.