Patents by Inventor Fred L. Knop, Jr.

Fred L. Knop, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5194049
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combined directional and infinitely variable speed transmission which, through a single continuous V-belt pulley drive mechanism, is capable of infinitely variable changing speeds and direction with a single control. It employs an axially adjustable non-rotatable drive inducing input pulley whose effective operaing diameter can be adjusted to vary its dimentional ratio with a rotatable, fixed diameter orbiting output pulley rotatable driven on its own axis by a walking motion of the connecting V-belt about the non-rotatable input pulley. Prior art transmission all require some type of forward-reverse directional change mechanism completely separate and apart from the speed section of the transmission. The present invention eliminates such separate directional devices by being able to manipulate the ratio between the effective operating diameters of the pulleys to change direction at the same time that such ratio is determining the output speed of the transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 16, 1993
    Inventor: Fred L. Knop, Jr.