Load equalizing means for planetary pinions

• US 3,303,713 A
• Filed: 02/08/1965
• Issued: 02/14/1967
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/1964
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Raymond J. Hicks
• Original Assignee: Raymond J. Hicks
• Inventors: Hicks, Raymond J.
• Application Number:
  US04/431,033
• Time in Patent Office: 736 Days
• US Class Current: 74/411
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 1/22 with a plurality of driving or driven shafts; with arrangements for dividing torque between two or more intermediate shafts
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 1/227 comprising two or more gearwheels in mesh with the same internally toothed wheel
• CPC Class Codes: F16H 1/2836 by allowing limited movement of the planets relative to the planet carrier or by using free floating planets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/19628 Pressure distributing
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 74/19633 Yieldability in gear trains

Claims

1. AN EPICYCLIC GEAR SET HAVING A PLANET CARRIER PROVIDED WITH A PLURALITY OF SPINDLES FAST THEREWITH, EACH SPINDLE CARRYING A PLANET WHEEL ROTATABLE THEREON, SAID PLANET WHEEL AND SPINDLE MAKING CONTACT AND BEING RELATIVELY RIGID WITH ONE ANOTHER AT A POSITION SYMMETRICALLY LOCATED ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE AXIAL CENTRE OF THE WHEEL TEETH TO THE POINT AT WHICH THE SPINDLE IS FAST AND RIGID WITH SAID CARRIER, AND BEING SPACED APART BETWEEN SAID POINTS, WHEREBY THE SPINDLE MAY FLEX UNDER EQUAL COUPLES APPLIED AS A RESULT OF UNEQUAL LOADS ON OPPOSITE POINTS OF THE WHEEL, AND ASSUME A DEFLECTED POSITION IN WHICH SAID LOADS ARE EQUALISED.