Rack and pinion lifter
This patent describes an actuator device, a housing, at least one pinion gear having teeth, for each pinion gear an elongate rack carried by the housing for reciprocal movement relative thereto and meshed with the pinion gear, each pinion gear having a body with a non-circular central hole therethrough constructed and arranged to removably receive a shaft having a complimentary non-circular cross section so that when the shaft is received in the hole the gear will be supported by the shaft and the shaft and gear will rotate in unison on the axis of the gear, each pinion gear having an annular peripheral shoulder therein on each axial side opening generally radially and axially outwardly of the gear and a central hub on the body between the shoulders and the central hole.
- Assignee:
- Power Components, Inc., Redford, MI (United States)
- Patent Number(s):
- US 5125290; A
- Application Number:
- PPN: US 7-483069
- OSTI ID:
- 7101799
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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