An improved cone assembly with one torque transmitting member and one non-torque transmitting member, which is oppositely positioned of said torque transmitting member;
- for said cone assembly, line contact torque transmission between the parts that slide relative to a cone and the parts that are stationary relative to said cone and with which said parts that slide engage, can be eliminated as to increase the torque transmission capacity of said cone assembly, comprising:
- a) a spline;
- b) said cone, said cone is attached so that it can rotate along an axis of rotation, said axis of rotation passes through the center of the larger end of said cone and the center of the smaller end of said cone;
- said cone is mounted on said spline in a manner where said cone is constrained for rotation relative to said spline but can slide axially relative to said spline;
- said cone has two oppositely positioned leading end cuts, which are substantially positioned on a radial plane of said axis of rotation;
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- said cone has two trailing end cuts;
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- c) a torque transmitting member, said torque transmitting member has a leading end and a trailing end;
- said leading end of said torque transmitting member has a means for attaching said leading end of said torque transmitting member to a torque transmitting member carriage;
- said trailing end of torque transmitting member has a means for slideably attaching said trailing end of said torque transmitting member to one of two oppositely positioned trailing end slides, and a means for attaching a means for securing said trailing end of said torque transmitting member to said cone;
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- d) a non-torque transmitting member, said non-torque transmitting member has a leading end and a trailing end;
- said leading end of said non-torque transmitting member has a means for attaching said leading end of said non-torque transmitting member to a non-torque transmitting member carriage;
- said trailing end of non-torque transmitting member has a means for slideably attaching said trailing end of said non-torque transmitting member to other one of said two oppositely positioned trailing end slides and a means for attaching a means for securing said trailing end of said non-torque transmitting member to said cone;
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- e) two longitudinal slides, each said longitudinal slide is shaped like a rod and extends from the smaller end of said cone to the larger end of said cone;
- each said longitudinal slide is substantially positioned parallel relative to one of said two oppositely positioned leading end cuts;
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- f) said torque transmitting member carriage, said torque transmitting member carriage is shaped like slider that has a longitudinal slide hole and two radial slide holes;
- said longitudinal slide hole of said torque transmitting member carriage is used to slidably insert said torque transmitting member carriage into one of said two longitudinal slides;
- said leading end of said torque transmitting member is attached to said torque transmitting member carriage through the use of said means for attaching said leading end of said torque transmitting member to a torque transmitting member carriage and a means for securing said leading end of said torque transmitting member to said torque transmitting member carriage;
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- g) said non-torque transmitting member carriage, said non-torque transmitting member carriage is shaped like slider that has one longitudinal slide hole and two radial slide holes;
- said longitudinal slide hole of said non-torque transmitting member carriage is used to slidably insert said non-torque transmitting member carriage into other one of said two longitudinal slides;
- said leading end of said non-torque transmitting member is attached to said non-torque transmitting member carriage through the use of said means for attaching said leading end of said non-torque transmitting member to a non-torque transmitting member carriage and a means for securing said leading end of said non-torque transmitting member to said non-torque transmitting member carriage;
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- h) a torque transmitting member radial slider sleeve, said torque transmitting member radial slider sleeve comprises of a sleeve on which two sets of oppositely positioned torque transmitting member slides that extend radially outwards from the center of said sleeve are fixed;
- said sleeve of said torque transmitting member radial slider sleeve is inserted into said spline, and wherein each one of said two sets of oppositely positioned torque transmitting member slides extend through one of said two oppositely positioned leading end cuts;
- one of said two sets of oppositely positioned torque transmitting member slides is slid through said two radial slide holes of said torque transmitting member carriage, and other one of said two sets of oppositely positioned torque transmitting member slides is slid through said two radial slide holes of said non-torque transmitting member carriage;
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- i) said trailing end slides sleeve, said trailing end slides sleeve comprises of a sleeve on which said two oppositely positioned trailing end slides are fixed;
- said sleeve of said trailing end slides sleeve is inserted into said spline, and wherein each one of said two oppositely positioned trailing end slides extends through one of said two trailing end cuts;
- one of said two oppositely positioned trailing end slides is slideably attached to said trailing end of said torque transmitting member through the use of said means for slideably attaching said trailing end of said torque transmitting member to one of two oppositely positioned trailing end slides;
- other one of said two oppositely positioned trailing end slides is slideably attached to said trailing end of said non-torque transmitting member through the use of said means for slideably attaching said trailing end of said non-torque transmitting member to other one of said two oppositely positioned trailing end slides;
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- j) said means for securing said leading end of said torque transmitting member to said torque transmitting member carriage;
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- k) said means for securing said leading end of said non-torque transmitting member to said non-torque transmitting member carriage;
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- l) said means for securing said trailing end of said torque transmitting member to said cone;
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- m) said means for securing said trailing end of said non-torque transmitting member to said cone;
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- n) a means for constraining the axial position of said torque transmitting member radial slider sleeve and the axial position of said trailing end slides sleeve relative to said spline.