Patent ID: 7472619

Claim:
A gear unit comprising: a housing, two shafts arranged parallel with one another and each supporting a helically cut toothed gear, and two pairs of bearings supported by or relative to the housing in an arrangement in which each pair of said bearings rotatably supports one of said two shafts with the helically cut toothed gears, said two shafts being rotatable one relative to the other in mutual engagement, wherein said two pairs of bearings of the two shafts lying to a common side of the inter-engaged helically cut toothed gears are supported by a substantially common wall section of the gear unit housing, one of said two pairs of bearings being arranged to transmit axial forces to said common housing wall section in a direction from the helically cut toothed gears to said one bearing, and the other bearing being arranged to transmit axial forces to said common housing wall section in a direction from said other bearing to the helically cut toothed gears.