Multi-path gear sets with load sharing between paths

摘要

A direct drive transmission for delivering relatively large power values from a power source relative to its size, wherein an input shaft and an output shaft are drivingly engaged by intermediate shafts of varying lengths, and further in which helically cut gears and pinions having limited freedom to move axially of the shafts which support them are provided at least at the input side of the transmissions to facilitate the balancing of the loads being transmitted by the intermediate shafts.