Motor vehicles – Motor as source of power for other machine – Other machine is mounted by three point hitch
Patent
1977-06-17
1979-03-27
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Motor vehicles
Motor as source of power for other machine
Other machine is mounted by three point hitch
280691, B60G 302
Patent
active
041461037
ABSTRACT:
A vehicle frame is provided including opposite side and opposite ends and front and rear pairs of opposite side wheel assemblies are independently sprung from opposite end portions of the frame and each wheel assembly includes a journaled dirigible wheel. The frame includes a prime mover drivingly coupled to a trans-axle mounted on a midportion of the frame including a pair of oppositely, transversely, outwardly projecting output shaft portions and opposite side midportions of the frame include gear boxes having input shafts to which the corresponding output shaft portions are drivingly connected. The gear boxes each include front and rear outwardly extending output shafts and each wheel assembly includes a gear assembly including meshed input and output gears. The output shafts are drivingly connected to the corresponding input gears and the output gears are drivingly connected to the corresponding wheels. Cone clutches are utilized either to drivingly connect the output gears to the corresponding wheels or to drivingly connect the output shaft portions of the trans-axle to the input shafts extending to the associated gear boxes mounted on the midportions of the opposite side of the frame. Further, hydraulic steering structure is operatively connected to the front and rear pairs of dirigible wheels for oppositely steering the same.
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Jacobson Harvey B.
Mar Michael
O#Brien Clarence A.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Walter Mabel E.
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