Multiple engine drive for single output shaft and combining gearbox therefor
A multiple engine drive system is described for driving a single drive shaft, comprising: multiple input shafts, each drivingly coupled to an output shaft of a different engine; a common final drive shaft; separate gear train means for drivingly coupling each of the multiple input shafts to the common final drive shaft; each separate gear train means including a separate input gear on an associated input shaft and a separate output gear on the common final drive shaft, and separate coupling means for coupling each output gear to the common final drive shaft; the coupling means comprising a separate clutch means operable to drivingly couple each output gear to the common final drive shaft when each output gear is driven by its associated input gear at a speed at least as great as that of the common final drive shaft.
- Assignee:
- Soloy Dual Pac, Inc., Olympia, WA
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4829850
- OSTI ID:
- 5847485
- Resource Relation:
- Patent File Date: Filed date 25 Feb 1987
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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