Patent ID: 6994066

Claim:
A manual engine starter comprising: a starting device including a driven shaft adapted to be selectively connected to a crank of the engine and a drive shaft longitudinally connected to the driven shaft for driving the driven shaft and starting the engine, the drive shaft having a tubular drive portion formed with a guide side and the driven shaft having a driven portion that is rotatably received in the tubular drive portion and engaged to the guide side and moved along the guide side so as to make the driven shaft moved along an axis thereof when the drive shaft is rotated to drive the driven shaft, the driven shaft including a drive dish radially extending therefrom opposite to the drive shaft, the drive dish including at least one groove defined along an periphery thereof, the at least one groove adapted to selectively receive a protrusion that laterally extends from a free end of the crank, a seat adapted to be secured on the engine, the seat including a base member and a protrusion extending from the base member, a skirt longitudinally extending from the protrusion of the seat to define a cavity in a free end of the seat for rotatably receiving the drive dish and a through hole defined in the protrusion of the seat, the through hole co-axially communicating with the cavity and rotatable receiving the tubular drive portion of the drive shaft, the cavity having a depth greater than a sum of a thickness of the drive dish and a length of the protrusion of the crank; and a puller laterally mounted on the starting device for drive the drive shaft to drive the driven shaft.