| 摘要 |
An articulated vehicle has a unit for transmitting power across the articulated hitch point thereof. Such unit includes a vertical shaft positioned along the axis of articulation, and having bevel gears on either end thereof. A drive shaft connects with the power plant of the vehicle and extends from one end of the vehicle to this vertical shaft. The drive shaft has a bevel gear mounted thereon which engages with one of the bevel gears of the vertical shaft. A shaft for driving the other end of the vehicle has a bevel gear thereon which engages with the other bevel gear on the vertical shaft. Power is transmitted from the drive shaft through the vertical shaft to the shaft for driving the other end of the vehicle, the vertical shaft and bevel gear arrangement meanwhile allowing articulation of the vehicle.
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