Patent ID: 8161833
Filing Date: 2012-04-24
Classification: B60K,B60Y,F16H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A power take-off device for an agricultural vehicle, the device comprising: a first and second output shaft; a drive interposed between the two output shafts; and an input shaft ; the drive including a hollow shaft and an inner shaft free to rotate inside the hollow shaft, wherein the hollow shaft and the inner shaft are coaxial with each other and with the input shaft, the drive comprising a single selector for operably connecting the input shaft to the first and, selectively, the second output shaft via engagement of a portion of a surface of the selector which engages a portion of the input shaft and a selected one of wherein the input shaft, when connected to the first output shaft, rotates the first output shaft at a first angular speed, and, when connected to the second output shaft, rotates the second output shaft at a second or third angular speed, and wherein the selector is movable between a first, second and third different selection position, the first selection position in which the first output shaft is connected to the input shaft to rotate at the first angular speed, and the second and third selection position in which the second output shaft is connected to the input shaft to rotate at the second and third angular speed, respectively.