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US 4,441,735 AGranted
Steering gear assembly for a lawn and garden tractor
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorsWayne R. Hutchison, David L. Apple
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Abstract
A lawn and garden tractor includes an inclined steering input shaft and a vertical steering output shaft which are both journalled for oscillation in a support plate and which converge downwardly. Respectively axially shiftably keyed or splined on the input and output shafts at respective desired working positions just below the support plate are a straight bevel gear and a gear sector. The gear and gear sector are biased to their desired working positions by a pair of coil springs.
Claims4
A vehicle steering system, comprising:
- a support means;
- a steering input shaft and a steering output shaft each being journalled for oscillation in the support means about respective axes which converge downwardly toward each other;
- first and second intermeshed straight bevel gears respectively mounted on said input and output shafts for oscillation therewith;
- said intermeshed straight bevel gears having respective desired operational positions located against said support means;
- and biasing means acting on at least one of the first and second bevel gears and biasing it to its respective desired operational position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.