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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1976
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1974
Applicant:
Inventor:
Randle Leslie Abbott, Tamworth, EN;
Assignee:
GKN Transmissions Limited, Birmingham, EN;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16H / ; F16H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
74751 ; 7478 / ;
Abstract
An epicyclic gear change assembly capable of giving a planetary ratio and direct drive and having first means for frictionally connecting two members of epicyclic gearing together for direct drive and second means for positively connecting two members of the gearing together for direct drive so that if the first means is engaged while the gearing is stationary and tends to slip when the gearing starts to be driven, the second means automatically comes into operation to inhibit such slipping.