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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 1989
Filed:
May. 10, 1988
Roger P Butterfield, Interlaken, NY (US);
Franklin R Smith, Slaterville Springs, NY (US);
Borg-Warner Transmission and Engine Components Corporation, Ithaca, NY (US);
Abstract
A phase shift device utilized for the camshaft sprockets in a chain control device for an engine having separate camshafts for intake and exhaust valves in an internal combustion engine. A device supporting one or a pair of idler sprockets is shiftable, either pivotally or longitudinally to vary the chain path between a driving and a driven camshaft sprocket in such a way as to vary the phase of the driven sprocket relative to the driving sprocket. This device comprises a bracket which carries at least one idler sprocket and is either pivotally or longitudinally shiftable to vary the phase thus facilitating proper chain control.