Motorcycle adjustable slider clutch
OwnerKenneth L. Tiptoninventor
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Abstract
A motorcycle slider clutch utilizing several original equipment manufacturers components, such as the output shaft (20) with gear cluster (24) and bearing (26), the center hub (30) and friction disks with plates (32) attached to a slider basket (34) and a resiliently mounted gear assembly (44). This combination contains the above described components along with a slider plate assembly (64) having an inside pressure plate (74) spring loadedly attached. The inside plate (74) further contains a group of fingers (82) that force the plate into contact with the disks and plates (32) making a union between the rotating elements due to the centrifugal force applied by the fingers (82). The apparatus employs the use of existing oil lubricated standard clutch components heretofore impractical.
Claims6
A motorcycle adjustable slider clutch utilizing the original equipment manufacturers transmission output shaft, front bearing, transmission gear cluster, main bearing assembly, center hub and plurality of alternately nested clutch friction disks and clutch pressure plates comprising:
- (a) a slider basket member having a cylindrical body with an open end and a closed end;
- (b) a spring loaded housing gear assembly resiliently attached to the closed end of said slider basket in such a way as to transmit torque from the housing gear assembly to the basket in a flexible manner;
- (c) said main bearing assembly slippingly joined into said spring loaded housing gear assembly which forms a rotational bearing receptacle;
- (d) said transmission output shaft being received with said main bearing assembly and having said front bearing and transmission gear cluster on one end and said center hub and plurality of alternately nested clutch friction disks and clutch pressure plates on the other, said friction disks engaging said slider basket and said pressure plates engaging said center hub;
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- (e) an outside slider plate assembly attached to the open end of the basket having an adjustable connected spring loaded inside pressure plate and a plurality of rotatable offset fingers extending therethrough, each having a cam shaped spatial extension urgingly forcing the inside pressure plate into contact with said nested clutch friction disks and clutch pressure plates by the inward camming of the fingers induced by rotational centrifugal force causing the clutch disks and plates to compress together unitedly joining the slider basket clutch friction disks and pressure plates with the center hub making a union between the housing gear assembly and the transmission gear cluster at an adjustable predetermined speed of the housing gear assembly.
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