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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:
May. 19, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roger M Weyman, Coventry, GB;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60K / ; F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
7447 / ; 192 / ;
Abstract
Gearbox selector forks are commonly mounted for axial movement on a supporting rail which is rigidly mounted in the gearbox casing. When the fork is moved axially along the rail to move a coupling sleeve it can tilt and jam on the rail if it experiences excessive actuation loads which may inhibit or at least delay the operation of the associated synchromesh unit and engagement of the required gear. The present invention overcomes this problem by providing a support rail 14 which is itself axially displaceable against the action of a resilient means 32 thereby ensuring that the required selector fork 16 movement for gear engagement may be achieved even when the fork 16 is jammed on the support rail 14.