Land vehicles – Wheeled – Occupant propelled type
Patent
1986-04-07
1987-05-19
Love, John J.
Land vehicles
Wheeled
Occupant propelled type
745942, 74750B, 192 6A, 280231, 280236, 280260, B62M 108, F16H 344
Patent
active
046661727
ABSTRACT:
A multiple speed planetary transmission which mounts inside the wheel hub of the driving wheel or wheels of a bicycle or the like, concentric with the pedal drive shaft. The transmission includes a gear case mounted on ball bearings on the pedal drive shaft, a cylindrical extension of the gear case being clamped to the bicycle frame on one side. Multiple sets of different size planet gears are rotatably mounted on a planet gear carrier fitting driven by the pedal drive shaft. A ring gear is mounted in tracks in the gear case with its axial position adjustable so that it can be positioned to mesh with any one of multiple sets of different size planet gears. A sun gear assembly has its multiple gears in constant mesh, respectively, with multiple sets of planet gears. A conventional free-wheel ratchet mechanism drives the wheel hub from the sun gear assembly, and a second conventional free-wheel ratchet mechanism drives the sun gear assembly from the drive shaft to provide a direct drive option. This compact, low maintenance transmission permits the wheelbase for a tandem bicycle using it to be the same as the wheelbase for a conventional single bicycle.
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Hill Mitchell J.
Love John J.
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