Patent ID: 8393856

Claim:
A rotating equipment assembly, comprising: an integrally produced combination of a at least a portion of a gearbox housing and at least a portion of a rotating equipment housing with openings at a predetermined distance for a driving shaft into the gearbox housing and a driven shaft from the gearbox housing into the rotating equipment housing; the rotating equipment housing further comprising a seal assembly through which a driven shaft enters, the driven shaft further comprising a first driven gear and an end element disposed on the driven shaft and located in the rotating equipment housing; the gear box housing further comprising a driving shaft and a driving gear engaged to the first driven gear; the seal assembly further comprising an offset opening with respect to a center thereof, whereupon the first driven gear is replaceable with a second driven gear of a different size that changes the shaft to shaft center distance and the seal assembly can accommodate the changed shaft to shaft center distance by reorientation of the offset opening.