Brian P Lyster

US Patent:

20070214762, Sep 20, 2007

Filed:

Jul 28, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/191653

Inventors:

Lawrence Folsom - Rensselaer NY, US
Clive Tucker - Lenox MA, US
Brian Lyster - Underhill VT, US
Douglas Bell - Mattoon IL, US
Michael Bennett - Sullivan IL, US

Assignee:

Hydro-Gear Limited Partnership - Sullivan IL

International Classification:

A01D 69/10

US Classification:

056011300

Abstract:

A drive apparatus having an axle and drive gear for the axle mounted within a housing, the drive gear capable of being drivingly coupled to a worm gear formed on an input shaft. An actuator extending into the housing and cooperating with the input shaft, where the actuator may rotate the input shaft about a point along the longitudinal axis of the input shaft between the first and second ends thereof to move the worm gear from a first position where it is engaged to and drives the drive gear and a second position where the worm gear does not contact the drive gear.