GEHAEUSE FUER EIN MECHANISCHES GETRIEBE

摘要

A housing for an arrangement of mechanical gears which includes pairs of meshing gears for transmitting driving force between a drive shaft and a driven shaft. The housing comprises a high strength supporting structure carrying bearings for journaling the respective shafts for each of the gears. The supporting structure includes a plurality of individual bending resistant girder members extending between the bearings journaling the shafts for the gears of each pair of meshing gears. The girders which extend between the bearings correspond to and absorb the reaction forces acting between the bearings. The girders have reinforcing chords made of material which is rigid along the longitudinal direction thereof. A protective skin which is unstressed by the reaction forces encloses the entire arrangement of gears and the supporting structure.