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Dayton-Walther Corporation

Thomas Franklin Troester

Jeffrey Troester

A watercraft lift assembly is provided. The watercraft lift assembly may include a frame, a pair of opposing cantilever arm assemblies and a lifting system. The frame may include a plurality of vertical posts and overhead elements forming a generally simple cubic lattice frame defining a watercraft operational envelope. Each cantilever arm assembly may include a pair of cooperating cantilever arms. Each cantilever arm may be generally L-shaped having a horizontal arm portion and a vertical arm portion slidably secured to an adjacent vertical post. Each horizontal arm portion may include a housing for slidably receiving an extension element. On each cantilever arm assembly, a cantilever bunk may be pivotably connected to the ends of the cooperating extension elements so as to operably engage the bottom surface of various watercrafts when the pair of cantilever arm assemblies moves from a low position to a raised position under the power of the lifting system.

Low water lift assembly

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A constant mesh gear driven continuously variable transmission including a minimum of two cones in mesh with either an axial sliding ring gear or an axial sliding circular gear. The cones and ring gear or circular gear are enclosed in a housing. An input shaft is journaled in the housing. The cones rotate about their own axes and revolve about the shaft in some embodiments. The ring gear or axial sliding circular gear is slidable axially relative to the cone gear, and the output gear ratio is varied by the axial position on the ring gear or sliding circular gear.

Continuously variable transmission

A gear driven continuously variable transmission including an epicyclic cone in mesh with an axially slidable nonrotating ring gear. The cone and ring gear are enclosed in a housing. An input shaft is journaled in the housing. The cone revolves about the axis of the shaft as it rotates on its own axis and is connected to the shaft to convert axial rotation of the input shaft into rotation of an output gear. The ring gear is slidable axially relative to the shaft, and the output gear ratio is varied by the axial position of the slidable ring gear.

Continuously variable transmission with epicyclic constant mesh gearing

A self-adjusting, mechanically actuated disc brake assembly in which the brake pads are pressed against the brake disc by cooperating drive threads formed on an actuating shaft and a piston. Adjustment is obtained by an adjuster nut having a fine thread complementary to and in engagement with a fine thread formed on the actuating shaft and a ratchet mechanism, including cooperating inclined teeth and spring loaded pins carried by the adjuster nut and an opposing portion of the piston. The frictional forces between the nut and the shaft are greater than those generated by contact between the nut and other portions of the assembly so that the nut tends to rotate in unison with the shaft. However, when the rotational movement of the shaft necessary to cause full engagement of the brakes becomes great enough, the spring loaded pins will slide over the edges of the inclined teeth, preventing retrograde movement of the nut and resulting in relative rotational movement between the nut and the shaft which advances the shaft towards the brake disc to compensate for brake wear.

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Granger, IN, United States of America

Thomas Franklin Troester