Machine element or mechanism – Elements – Gear casings
Patent
1998-07-02
2000-05-09
Battista, Mary Ann
Machine element or mechanism
Elements
Gear casings
74606R, F16H 5702
Patent
active
060588055
ABSTRACT:
An assembly that removes air from the housing of an axle assembly in combination with the axle assembly for use with a vhicle. The assembly is vomprised of a modified differential housing having an air flow channel therein extending from an inner chamber of the housing to a face of the differentiao housing which abuts ayoke of a drive shaft, the channel emptying into an area over which an seal protector is engaged for protecting a seal provided between the yoke and the differential, the seal protector having an edge port in a circumferential edge thereof which aligns with a cooperating cored hole in a corresponding circumferential area of the housing intermittently, the seal protector being engaged to the drive shaft yode and rotating therewith. The intermittent alignment of the edge port and the cored hole allows venting of the inner chamber of the differential housing to the outside atmosphere.
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Battista Mary Ann
Calfa Jeffrey P.
Navistar International Transportation Corp
Sullivan Dennis Kelly
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