Claims
- 1. A friction drive arrangement for driving automotive and truck accessories, each with an input from the automotive/truck engine thereof comprising in combination:
- a drive wheel for mounting on an output shaft of said engine having an outer rim surface;
- one or more driven wheels for driving said accessories having portions thereof mating frictionally with said outer rim surface, said driven wheels further comprising:
- hub means for concentrically mounting the driven wheel onto the input shaft;
- a cylindrical rim supported by said hub means and formed axially thereabout;
- a pair of end flanges extending radially outward from the ends of the cylindrical rim;
- plurality of elastic o-rings for transmitting driving forces resiliently mounted adjacently and compressively to said cylindrical rim and within said end flanges, said elastic O-rings having an inner diameter slightly less that of said cylindrical rim and being dimensioned so that each o-ring can be mounted over one of said end flanges and dimensioned to extend radially beyond said end flanges and to form axially disposed, substantially V-shaped grooves between adjacent elastic o-rings;
- whereby said drive wheel transmits rotational forces to said accessories.
- 2. A friction drive arrangement as described in claim 1 wherein the O-rings when mounted side by side about the rim are compressed by one another and the end flanges, and fill the axial space between said flange.
- 3. A friction drive arrangement for driving automotive and truck accessories, each with an input shaft, from the automotive/truck engine thereof comprising in combination:
- a drive wheel for mounting on an output shaft of said engine having an outer rim surface;
- one or more driven wheels for driving said accessories having portions thereof mating frictionally with said outer rim surface, said driven wheels further comprising:
- hub means for concentrically mounting the driven wheel onto the input shaft;
- a cylindrical rim supported by said hub means and formed axially thereabout;
- a pair of end flanges extending radially outward from the ends of the cylindrical rim;
- plurality of elastic o-rings for transmitting driving forces resiliently mounted adjacently and compressively to said cylindrical rim and within said end flanges, said elastic O-rings having an inner diameter slightly less than that of said cylindrical rim and being dimensioned so that each o-ring can be mounted over one of said end flanges and dimensioned to extend radially beyond said end flanges and to form axially disposed, substantially V-shaped grooves between adjacent elastic o-rings;
- said o-rings when mounted side by side about the rim are compressed by one another and the end flanges, and fill the axial space between said end flanges;
- whereby said drive wheel transmits rotational forces to said accessories.
- 4. A friction drive arrangement as described in claim 1 wherein ratio of the diameter of the drive wheel to the driven wheel is selected to increase or decrease the rotational speed of the input shaft of the accessory.
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATION
This application is a continuation-in-part of a patent application filed by the same inventor, entitled, "Elimination of Pulleys and Belts on Future Automobiles and Trucks," bearing Ser. No. 06/727,766 and having a filing date of June 10, 1985 now abandoned.
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