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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2001
William S. Ballew, McRae, GA (US);
Charles W. Poole, Dublin, GA (US);
White Consolidated Industries, Inc., Cleveland, OH (US);
Abstract
A clutch including a pawl having a base portion and an arm portion extending from the base portion; a drive disk adapted to be engaged by the pawl; a friction seal adapted to receive the drive disk; a drive retainer adapted to receive the pawl and a biasing spring that is engaged with the pawl and the drive retainer; and a pinion wheel having a plurality of teeth, wherein said pinion wheel is adapted to receive the drive retainer. The teeth of the pinion wheel operatively mesh with similarly designed teeth on a traction drive wheel which is also included in the traction drive wheel assembly. The clutch operates without the need for manual de-clutching and further without the need for the existence of frictional differentials between clutch members, induced through axial pressing together of clutch components by a thrust spring and through different sizes of frictional contact areas.