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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1975
Kubota Tekko Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JA;
Abstract
Front wheel drive assembly comprising a tubular front wheel axle housing and rotatably supporting a differential yoke shaft having a bevel pinion at its outer end, a gear case fixedly mounted on the outer end of the front wheel axle and having a pin portion projecting from a cap of the case, an upright bevel pinion shaft housed in and rotatably supported by the gear case and having a bevel pinion meshing with the bevel pinion, the bevel pinion shaft having another bevel gear below the bevel pinion thereon, a front wheel hub shaft fixed to the disk of the front wheel and having a terminal reduction bevel gear, and a case housing the bevel gear on the hub shaft and rotatably supporting the hub shaft substantially coaxially with the yoke shaft, the bevel gear on the hub shaft meshing at its lower portion with the bevel gear on the bevel pinion shaft. The case housing the terminal reduction bevel gear is fitted over the pin portion of the gear case and around a lower portion of the bevel pinion shaft so as to hold the gear case from above and below and is turnable about a vertical axis.