Patent GB-1527398-A (GB)
Title: Multi-speed gear hub
IPC: B62M11/16
Filed: 1976-07-22
Abstract: 1527398 Change speed gear FICHTEL & SACHS AG 22 July 1976 [25 July 1975] 30580/76 Heading F2D A three speed, back-pedal-braked, cycle hub gear comprises a planet gear with permanently fixed sun 30; an axially slidable clutch dog 52 with segments of teeth 118, Fig. 4, in permanent slidable engagement with dogs 50 of a sprocketcarrying input member 16, and engageable with dog teeth 46 in a ring gear 42 for reduced and direct drive, and with dogs 40 on a planet carrier 32 for overdrive; free wheels at 92 between the carrier 32 and an output hub shell 22 and at 82, 80 between the ring gear 42, which is axially slidable, and a member 78 in toothed engagement 80, 84 with the hub shell 22; and inclined end faces 120 on the dog tooth 40 of the planet carrier whereby drive torque produces an axial force urging the clutch member 52 rightwards to complete engagement of the clutch member teeth 118 with the ring gear clutch teeth 46 if they fail to mesh during engagement of intermediate ratio, the clutch member 52 being moved in that rightward direction by a spring 70 which maintains contact between a slidable member 58 and an abutment 64 on the clutch member as a central control rod 56, abutting the member 58, is moved axially in a spindle bore 54. Ratios are as follows. High, setting shown, the clutch member 52 drives the planet carrier 32 through the dogs 40 thereon, thus overdriving the ring gear 42, dog teeth 82 of which drive those 80 of the member 78 which drives the hub shell through teeth 80, 84. Ratchet teeth 94 in the hub shell 22 overrun pawls 92 pivoted on a brake hub 90 sorewthreaded at 86, 88 on the planet carrier 32, backward rotation of which latter on back pedalling shifts the brake hub 90 axially left to engage conical surfaces 96, 98 on the hub and in a split member 100 which is thereby expanded into frictional brake engagement with the hub shell. Normal overrun, with stationary pedals, causes inclined faces 114 of the ring gear teeth 82 to ride over the dogs 80 of the member 78, shifting the ring gear 42 axially in opposition to a sinuous spring 72, thus providing free-wheeling. Intermediate ratio. Movement of the control push rod 56 one step rightwards allows the spring 70 to apply a follow-up movement to the control piece 58 and clutch member 52, the teeth 118 of which then mesh the ring gear clutch teeth 46 and disengage from the planet carrier dogs 40. The hub shell is then driven at one-to-one ratio through the dogs 82, 80 and teeth 84. On back pedalling, the planet carrier is driven backwards at reduced speed and applies the brake through the threaded member 90 as before. Normal overrun causes freewheeling at the dogs 80, 82 as before. Low ratio. Movement of the control rod 56 one further step rightwards allows the spring 70 to shift the clutch member 52 sufficiently far to the right to act through an end abutment 48 on the ring gear 42 to shift the ring gear rightwards, in opposition to the sinuous spring 72, thereby disengaging the clutch dogs 80, 82, whereupon the ring gear drives the planet carrier at reduced speed and the latter drives the hub through the pawls 94. During shift from high to intermediate, if the clutch member 52, under load of its actuating spring 70, is detained in a position in which its teeth 118 do not reach the ring gear clutch teeth 46, the driving member 16 would in effect, be free, and, to prevent this, the planet carrier dogs 40 terminate in inclined portions 120, which, under forward or backward pedalling, apply a rightward thrust to the clutch member 52 forcing it into mesh with the ring gear teeth 46 independently of the loading spring 70. To prevent lock up if the cycle is wheeled backwards immediately after application of the back pedal brake the amount of backlash permitted by the clutch dogs 80, 82 exceeds that permitted by the pawls 92, which latter thereby turn the brake member 90 to release the back pedal brake 100, permitting backward movement of the cycle. Fig. 5, not shown, differs in that, in the high ratio position, the ring gear is maintained leftward by abutment of the clutch member (52<SP>1</SP>) against a bush (53<SP>1</SP>) on the planet carrier bearing against the ends of the teeth of the ring gear. In intermediate ratio, after release by this abutment, the ring gear is moved alone rightwards by a sinuous spring (83<SP>1</SP>) between the left ends of the internal teeth of the ring gear and the planet carrier, the dogs (40<SP>1</SP>) of which latter remain in engagement with the clutch member (52<SP>1</SP>) and drive the hub shell through the brake member (90<SP>1</SP>) and pivoted pawls (92<SP>1</SP>). In low ratio the clutch member teeth (118) mesh the ring gear teeth (46<SP>1</SP>) as before, but the end abutment 48, Fig. 1, of the ring gear teeth is eliminated, since the clutch member is not now required to shift the ring gear axially