192 clutches and power-stop control – Clutch and brake – Peripheral brake
Patent
1977-09-02
1980-06-03
Bonck, Rodney H.
192 clutches and power-stop control
Clutch and brake
Peripheral brake
56 113, 192103B, A01D 6910
Patent
active
042057370
ABSTRACT:
A completely enclosed combination clutch and brake mechanism permanently mounted at the bottom of a vertical shaft internal combustion engine of the type used to power rotary lawn mowers, is interposed between the crankshaft of the engine and a coaxial blade shaft projecting down from the bottom of the enclosed clutch and brake mechanism to have the cutting blade of the mower fixed thereto. A rotatable driving member fixed to the engine crankshaft and a rotatable driven member fixed to the blade shaft are drivingly coupled by radially outwardly movable clutch elements carried by the driven member and frictionally engaged with a radially inwardly facing circular surface on the driving member. Such frictional engagement results from the application to the clutch elements of both spring force and centrifugal force. The spring-force-produced frictional engagement effects transmission of rotation to the driven member from stand still to the speed at which the centrifugal-force-produced frictional engagement is capable of transmitting full engine torque to the blade shaft, but is incapable--due to slippage--of stopping the engine when the brake is applied, in which event rotation of the driven member is rapidly decelerated to zero.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3253391 (1966-05-01), Meldahl
patent: 4035994 (1977-07-01), Hoff
patent: 4044533 (1977-08-01), Wick
Harkness Joseph R.
Mitchell Robert K.
Bonck Rodney H.
Briggs & Stratton Corporation
Jones Ira Milton
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