Internal-combustion engines – Combined devices
Patent
1985-10-24
1988-07-19
Braun, Leslie A.
Internal-combustion engines
Combined devices
123198DC, 123DIG6, 192129A, 192103B, 403316, 403348, F02B 6300
Patent
active
047577860
ABSTRACT:
An arrangement for releasably coupling an engine to a driven device such as a power tool includes a lug-bearing ring mounted on the engine, the ring encircling a centrifugally operated clutch, splined shaft or other shaft coupling member at the end of a drive shaft and having a plurality of lugs with enlarged heads mounted thereon. The engine is releasably coupled to a driven device by passing the enlarged heads of the lugs through large portions of mating apertures within a lug-receiving ring mounted on the driven device and then rotating the engine relative to the driven device to move the lugs into necked-down portions of the apertures and lock one of the lug heads against a manually actuable resilient retainer strip mounted on the opposite side of the lug-receiving ring. A cable at the end of a manually operated engine speed control on the driven device is releasably coupled to the engine throttle control. A pressure-responsive electrical switch mounted on the engine grounds the ignition circuit of the engine to prevent operation thereof except when engaged by an element on the driven device when the driven device has been moved into a properly coupled position on the engine.
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Braun Leslie A.
Testardi David A.
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