Patent ID: 7874222
Filing Date: 2011-01-25
Classification: B60K,F16B,F16D

Abstract:
1. A PTO assembly, comprising: a PTO output shaft having an internal spline, a PTO output shaft recess; a PTO stub shaft having a first recess and an external spline, wherein the external spline is engaged with the internal spline; a spring loaded mechanism aligned with the PTO output shaft and the PTO stub shaft; and a snap ring, wherein when installing the PTO stub shaft to rotate at a first speed and prior to the PTO stub shaft compressing the spring loaded mechanism, an installation surface and the first recess sandwich the snap ring, and after the PTO stub shaft engages the spring loaded mechanism, the snap ring seats in the PTO output shaft recess, and the snap ring has a pair of tabs extending radially away from the PTO stub shaft in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the PTO stub shaft, wherein the PTO output shaft has an axially extending protrusion extending less than 360 degrees of a circumference of the PTO output shaft, wherein the protrusion includes an installation surface, wherein the tabs are disposed in a snap ring tab recess which occupies a remainder of the 360 degrees of the circumference of the PTO output shaft.