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US 5,690,571 AGranted
Hybrid roller and silent chain
AssigneeBorg-Warner Automotive, Inc.
InventorPhilip J. Mott
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Abstract
A hybrid chain assembly includes structure from both roller chain and silent chain. The inner chain links include bushings that ride along the teeth of a sprocket and the outer chain links include link plates including depending members as found in silent chains which contact the teeth of a sprocket.
Claims11
A chain assembly, comprising:
- a series of interleaved inner and outer links, said outer links having a pair of outer link plates fixedly mounted to spaced pin members, each outer link plate having a pair of apertures for receiving said pin members;
- said inner links having a pair of bushings mounted to turn on said pin members of said outer links, said inner links having a pair of inner link plates fixedly mounted to said bushings, each inner link plate having a pair of apertures for receiving said bushings;
- said outer link plates having a pair of outer depending members adapted to contact a first set of teeth of the sprocket assembly;
- said inner links and said outer links being adapted to receive a second set of teeth of a sprocket assembly between said inner link plates.
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A chain assembly, comprising:
- a series of interleaved inner and outer links, said outer links having a pair of outer link plates fixedly mounted to spaced pin members, each outer link plate having a pair of apertures for receiving said pin members;
- said inner links having a pair of bushings mounted to turn on said pin members of said outer links, said inner links having inner link plates fixedly mounted to said bushings, each inner link plate having a pair of apertures for receiving said bushings;
- said outer link plates having a pair of outer depending members adapted to contact a first set of teeth of the sprocket assembly;
- said inner links and said outer links being adapted to receive a second set of teeth of a sprocket assembly between said inner link plates.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.