Patent ID: 7713158

Claim:
A transfer box comprising: a housing; an input shaft; a first output shaft extending coaxially relative to said input shaft; a second output shaft extending parallel to said first output shaft and said input shaft; and a differential gear assembly arranged between said input and first output shafts, wherein the input shaft carries a spider member with a plurality of radial bearing arms for the differential gears, wherein a first side gear is connected in a rotationally fast way to the first output shaft and wherein a second side gear is rotatably supported on the input shaft and drives the second output shaft, wherein the differential gears are spur gears and the side gears are crown gears and wherein the teeth of the differential gears engage the teeth of the side gears, wherein the first and second side gears are axially supported on one another, wherein a carrier is firmly connected to one of the first and second side gears and extends over the other one of the first and second side gears, wherein the first and second side gears are axially supported on one another via said carrier, and wherein between the carrier and the other one of the first and second side gears, there is arranged an axial bearing or friction discs for axial support.