Patent ID: 8707816

Claim:
An angle drive comprising: an input shaft carrying an input gear for rotation about an input axis; an output shaft carrying an output gear for rotation about an output axis, the input and output gears are coupled transfer rotational motion therebetween, the input axis and output axis being non-parallel to one another; a housing; an inboard and outboard input shaft bearings carrying the input shaft within the housing for rotation about the input axis, the inboard input shaft bearing supporting the input shaft on an inboard side of the input gear and the outboard input shaft bearing supporting the input shaft on the outboard side of the input gear; inboard and outboard output shaft bearings carrying the output shaft within the housing for rotation about the output axis, the inboard output shaft bearing supporting the output shaft on an inboard side of the output gear and the outboard shaft bearing supporting the output shaft on the outboard side of the output gear; and the inboard input shaft bearing and inboard output shaft bearing interlocking one another.