Motor vehicles – Compensating devices
Patent
1978-12-07
1980-08-12
Silverstrim, John P.
Motor vehicles
Compensating devices
180 53D, 180900, 74 1569, B60K 1706, B60K 1728
Patent
active
042168406
ABSTRACT:
A drive arrangement for a high clearance vehicle comprising an elongate, mobile frame having depending, laterally spaced struts at front and rear ends mounting front and rear wheels respectively. A ring gear is fixed relatively to each rear drive wheel and a speed reducer for each rear drive wheel is carried by the frame adjacent a respective drive wheel. Each speed reducer has an input shaft and an output shaft with a gear pinion in driving engagement with a respective ring gear at an upper portion thereof. An engine and transmission are mounted on the frame and have a driven output shaft operatively connected to the respective speed reduces by pulleys respectively on the driven output shaft and the speed reducer input shafts for driving the speed reducer and the rear drive wheels in response to operation of the engine.
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