Patent ID: 8714043

Claim:
An intermediate gear device for a traction drive and/or spur gear drive of an internal combustion engine, the intermediate gear comprising an at least two-track construction with a drive gear and a driven gear, a flangeless axle, and a needle bearing by which the intermediate gear is radially mounted on the flangeless axle, two support disks on which the intermediate gear is axially supported at both sides thereof, and a duct that is adapted to be connected to a lubricant circuit of the internal combustion engine to supply lubricant to the needle bearing, the support disks contact the flangeless axle at both axial ends of the flangeless axle by respective contact surfaces of the support disks contacting adjacent contact surfaces of the flangeless axle at each of the axial ends, a mouth of the lubricant duct opens toward the needle bearing and is formed by one or more recesses on at least one of the contact surfaces on the support disks or the contact surfaces of the flangeless axle.