Patent ID: 6899617

Claim:
A drive for a cleaning fan supported by a frame member of an agricultural combine, the frame member including a mounting hole therein for the drive and the fan including an input rotatable about a first axis therethrough, the mounting hole being located within a range of positions relative to the axis, the drive comprising: a motor including an output rotatable about a second axis therethrough, the output being connectable in rotatably driving relation to the input of the fan when the input and the output are in axial end-to-end relation to the input of the fan, the mounting element including a bracket mountable to the frame member, and an elongate, resiliently flexible elastomeric member having one end which connects to the bracket and another end that connects to the motor such that the resiliently flexible elastomeric member supports the motor, the flexible member having sufficient resiliently flexibility so as to accommodate the range of positions of the mounting hole relative to the axis of the input of the fan and to allow limited variations in relative angular orientation of the motor relative to the frame member for maintaining connection of the output of the motor in axially aligned relation to the input of the fan during rotation of the fan by the motor.