Eaton Corporation

Spricer Technologies, Inc.

Steven Daniel McKeeby

Michael A Chamberlin

Dale L Kwasniewski

Robert E Crepas

Daniel H Flight

Dale Lee Kwasniewski

Gerard W DeVito

An integral yoke/slinger assembly replaces a conventional two-piece design. The integral yoke/slinger arrangement provides a new and improved shaft seal particularly adapted for use in yoke and flange arrangement exposed to a heavy concentration of air entrained foreign material, whereby a more efficient and economical method for manufacturing and assembling a yoke, slinger and seal arrangement for a drive axle system is provided.

Integral yoke and slinger

A lubrication system for the helical gear thrust washer, helical gear journal and inter-axle differential in tandem drive axles. The leading drive axle input shaft is journalled in a bearing supplied on one side with a gravity flow of lubricant from a passage receiving lubricant slinging from the power divider periphery, which receives lubricant slinging from the axle ring gear. The opposite side of the bearing has an annular lubricant chamber therearound formed by an annular baffle member surrounding the input shaft on the interior side of the bearing. The bearing is operative to pump lubricant to the annular chamber. An axial passage formed through a portion of the input shaft communicates the annular chamber with the differential gears. In one form the annular baffle member rotates with the input shaft and in the other form it is stationary. In some embodiments the baffle has an elastomeric lip seal therearound; and, in the other embodiments, the baffle defines an annular labyrinth passage restricting return flow to the sump from the annular chamber.

Power divider lubrication in tandem driving axles

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Lawton, MI, United States of America

Steven Daniel McKeeby