Endless belt power transmission systems or components – Pulley with belt-receiving groove formed by drive faces on... – Load responsive
Patent
1994-10-17
1996-05-14
Lorence, Richard M.
Endless belt power transmission systems or components
Pulley with belt-receiving groove formed by drive faces on...
Load responsive
192 5452, 192 93A, F16H 5556
Patent
active
055163335
ABSTRACT:
The invention in a torque responsive actuator device for a belt drive system as is commonly utilized with snowmobile and like type vehicles. An actuator cover plate of the invention is connected by rods to a lower half of a split pulley, with the upper pulley half mounting a helix or cam cone extending towards the actuator cover plate undersurface that includes a plurality of cam tracks formed therein that are each to receive a cam follower for travel therealong that extends from the actuator cover plate undersurface. Movement of the actuator cover plate towards the top face of the pulley upper half is thereby translated through the rods to spread the pulley upper and lower halves apart, opening a V slot therebetween to a drive belt that is maintained therein. A cylindrical shaft is journaled through the actuator cover plate and fitted through pulley that includes a coil spring disposed therearound for providing spring biasing to urge the actuator cover plate away from the pulley upper half, closing the pulley halves together. To provide minimum friction operation and actuator wear the invention employs cam follower roller bearings as the cam followers and radiuses or forms the cam tracks to have a center apex wherealong a roller of the roller bearing travels through a variety of cam degree angles as the cam followers experience as they travel along the cam tracks during actuator operation.
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Lorence Richard M.
Russell M. Reid
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