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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 1982
Filed:
Apr. 18, 1979
Marion L Smitley, Birmingham, MI (US);
Colt Industries Operating Corp, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A rotatable flywheel is selectively operatively connectable to the power drive train of a related vehicle and is effective to absorb energy from the vehicular ground-engaging drive wheels during vehicle decleration thereby also providing for at least a degree of vehicular braking; a clutch is provided to enable the vehicular ground-engaging drive wheels to accelerate the flywheel while preventing the flywheel from driving such wheels through such clutch; an additional clutch is shown as being provided to enable selectively variable degrees of operative connection between the wheels and flywheel; and a related control is provided for affecting such selectively variable degrees of operative connection.