Tractor drive attachment

• US 3,209,604 A
• Filed: 09/25/1962
• Issued: 10/05/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/25/1962
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: John D. Mitchell, Paul M. Page, Stuart Wood
• Original Assignee: John D. Mitchell, Paul M. Page, Stuart Wood
• Inventors: Mitchell, John D., Page, Paul M., Wood, Stuart
• Application Number:
  US04/225,994
• Time in Patent Office: 1,106 Days
• US Class Current: 74/15.63
• CPC Class Codes: B60K 17/28 characterised by arrangement, location, or type of power take-off
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 49/06 adapted for multi-purpose use
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 7/00 Gearings for conveying rotary motion by endless flexible members specific for conveying rotary motion with variable gear ratio or for reversing rotary motion F16H9/00 ; chainwheels F16H55/30

Claims

1. IN THE KNOWN COMBINATION OF A TRACTOR AND A HARVESTING UNIT, TRANSPLANTER UNIT OR THE LIKE ASSOCIATED WITH SAID TRACTOR, SAID TRACTOR INCLUDING AN ENGINE, A GENERATOR DRIVEN BY SAID TRACTOR ENGINE AND A POWER TAKE-OFF UNIT OPERATIVELY ASSOCIATED WITH THE REAR OF THE TRACTOR ENGINE, THE IMPROVEMENT WHICH COMPRISES:

(A) A FIRST PULLEY MOUNTED ON THE SHAFT OF SAID GENERATOR, (B) A FIRST PULLEY BELT OPERATIVELY ENGAGING AND INTERCONNECTING THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID FIRST PULLEY AND THE OUTER SURFACE OF A SECOND PULLEY, (C) SAID SECOND PULLEY BEING MOUNTED ONTHE FORWARD END OF A FIRST ELONGATED POWER TRANSMISSION SHAFT BEING (D) SAID FIRST ELONGATED POWER TRANSMISSION SHAFT BEING MOUNTED HORIZONTALLY ABOVE THE GROUND AND LATERALLY OFFSET FROM SAID TRACTOR ENGINE BY TWO MOUNTING BRACKETS ENGAGING ADJACENT OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID SHAFT AND ATTACHED TO SAID APART PORTIONS OF SAID TRACTOR FRAME, (E) A THIRD PULLEY BEING MOUNTED ON SAID FIRST ELONGATED POWER TRANSMISSION SHAFT REARWARDLY OF SAID FIRST PULLEY, (F) A SECOND PULLEY BELT OPERATIVELY ENGAGING AND INTERCONNECTING THE OUTER SURFACE OF SAID THIRD PULLEY AND THE OUTER SURFACE OF A FOURTH PULLEY,