Patent ID: 7614112

Claim:
A platform mounted drive train for a professional carpet and floor cleaner system, the platform mounted drive train comprising: a rigid platform; a power plant having two spaced apart mounting structures located within a plane secured to the rigid platform at exactly two spaced apart positions; a vacuum blower having one mounting structure secured to the rigid platform at exactly one position spaced apart from the two positions at which the power plant is secured; a rigid structural connector coupled between the power plant and the vacuum blower for rigidly securing the vacuum blower in fixed lateral, angular and rotational alignment with the power plant, wherein a single, rigid machinery assembly is formed between the power plant, the rigid structural connector, and the vacuum blower; and a coupler assembly interfaced between an output drive structure of the power plant and an input drive structure of the vacuum blower; wherein the exactly two spaced apart positions of the two power plant mounting structures and the exactly one position of the one blower mounting structure form a triangular mounting pattern between the rigid machinery assembly and the rigid platform.