Bicycle transmissions
AssigneeW. Henry Snyder
InventorW. Henry Snyder
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Abstract
A transmission for a vehicle of the type having a wheel to which power is to be applied to rotate it and a drive means to provide wheel turning power, includes a cone-shaped member with concentric rings of teeth on its surface adapted to be concentrically attached to the wheel to be powered, and a drive sprocket ring encircling the axis of the cone-shaped member and having engagement means thereon adapted to cooperate with a selected ring of teeth on the cone-shaped member. A shifting means is adapted to shift the sprocket ring so that the engagement means may engage any of the rings of teeth selected. The ring of teeth selected determines the ratio of the transmission.
Claims3
A transmission for a vehicle of the type having a wheel to which power is to be applied to rotate it, drive means to provide wheel-turning power, and shifting means, said transmission including a cone-shaped member adapted for mounting on a wheel of a vehicle of the said type, concentrically about the axis thereof;
- concentric, ring-like sets of teeth formed on the cone-shaped member's tapered surface;
- a sprocket ring encircling the axis of said cone-shaped member and adapted to be rotatably mounted on the shifting means of the vehicle;
- the sprocket ring being adapted to be driven by the drive means of the vehicle and always lying and being shifted in a plane perpendicular to the axis of said wheel of the vehicle;
- engagement means on one side of said sprocket ring and adapted to cooperate with the ring-like sets of teeth on said cone-shaped member, said sprocket ring being shiftable both toward the cone-shaped member and radially toward or away from the axis of said cone-shaped member, so as to permit the engagement means to cooperate with a different set of ring teeth for purposes of ratio change.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.