Engine-gear arrangement for vehicles, in particular passenger cars

A system for driving a motor vehicle with an infinitely variable belt gear comprising:

• an engine transversely positioned to the longitudinal direction of said vehicle;
• first and second drive cone pulleys for transmitting the rotational force of said engine;
• clutch means for coupling said engine to said drive cone pulleys;
• first and second output cone pulleys drivingly connected to said first and second drive cone pulleys;
• a planetary gear drive with a sun gear, a ring gear, and a planetary gear carrier carrying planet gears, said sun gear being driven by said first and second output cone pulleys;
• a differential gear coaxially positioned to said planetary gear drive for driving the axles of said vehicle with a drive gear coupling said differential gear with said planetary gear drive;
• a hollow shaft concentric with an output shaft of said differential gear drivingly disposed between said sun gear and said output cone pulleys;
• first controllable clutch means for selectively engaging said drive gear and said ring gear or said drive gear and said planetary gear carrier;
• a stationary housing;
• and
• second controllable clutch means for selectively coupling said housing to said ring gear or said housing to said planetary gear carrier.