Patent ID: 7748652

Claim:
A spreading system for a pickup truck vehicle having a vehicle electrical system, said spreading system comprising: a hopper having a discharge end; a spreader having a housing in communication with the discharge end of said hopper; a conveyor positioned within said hopper and driven by a rotatable conveyor drive shaft connected to the conveyor; a first electric motor interconnected to said vehicle electrical system and having a rotatable motor output drive shaft offset from and parallel to said conveyor drive shaft; a transmission coupled to the output drive shaft of said first electric motor including a first, relatively smaller diameter circular member on the motor drive shaft operatively connected to rotate a second, relatively larger diameter circular member on the conveyor drive shaft for translating power at reduced speed of rotation from said electric motor output drive shaft to said conveyor drive shaft; a second electric motor interconnected to said vehicle electrical system and coupled to said spreader; wherein the transmission includes a plurality of additional circular members of differing diameters operatively interposed between the first and second circular members to multiply a speed reduction between the rotation of the motor output drive shaft and the rotation of the conveyor drive shaft.