FAHRZEUGACHSE MIT EINEM AUSSERHALB DES ACHSGEHAUSES QUER ZUR FAHRTRICHTUNG ANGEORDNETEN ANTRIEBSMOTOR

摘要

An axle housing which encloses a transmission for the drive of a pair of traction wheels, e.g. as used on a fork-lift truck, has an upper recess flanked by cheeks of enlarged housing extremities which accommodate respective planetary-gear trains. One of the cheeks carries a vertical supporting plate for a hydrostatic drive motor whose shaft enters the axle housing through that cheek and carries a pinion meshing with a toothed ring on a differential-gear housing. The latter housing may be rotatable about a vertical axis through 180 DEG to accommodate motors of different axial length.