Vehicle transfer gear and drive line brake mechanism
This patent describes a vehicle transfer gear and drive line brake mechanism including a depending gear transfer train and a drive line brake assembly for respectively propelling and stopping movement of a vehicle. The gear transfer train has an output gear connected to an output shaft disposed on a lower axis and the drive line brake assembly is connected to the output shaft and disposed on the lower axis. The improvement described here consists of: housing means for defining an enclosed compartment containing the gear transfer train and the drive line brake assembly in juxtaposed relation and a common lubrication fluid. The housing means includes a main case defining an opening on the lower axis. The drive line brake assembly includes a brake body releasably secured to the case in closing relationship to the opening and annular plates and discs, the drive line brake assembly being modularized and being removable with the brake body from the output shaft independent of the output gear.
- Assignee:
- Caterpillar Tractor Co., Peoria, IL
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4577524
- OSTI ID:
- 5855051
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 18 Jun 1982
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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