Wheel-lift mechanism
CA 2104640 A1 · Owner: Build A Mold Limited · Inventors: Schmidt, Horst
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A wheel-lift mechanism is disclosed which incorporates a unique torque limiting structure. A drive is transmitted to a first shaft, which is in turn transmitted to a second shaft. The second shaft drives a reel for raising and lowering a flexible lift member and an attached wheel hub from beneath a vehicle. The torque limiting structure consists of an outer drive member which has an inner periphery including a plurality of ears which are received within notches in an inner driven member. The first shaft rotates the outer drive member and the inner driven member in turn rotates the second shaft. Should the relative torque transmitted from the first shaft to the second shaft exceed a …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 23, 1993. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended August 23, 2013.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 23, 2015.
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