Patents Assigned to Benz Vehicle Corporation
  • Electric starter drive for motor engaging vehicle drive wheel
    Patent number: 3939931
    Abstract: A mechanism for engaging an electric starter motor with the drive shaft of an engine which is pivotably mounted on a vehicle and movable into and out of engagement with a drive wheel. The starter motor is pivotably mounted both to the engine mount and the vehicle frame so that disengaging the engine from the drive wheel spaces the starter motor shaft further away from the drive shaft of the engine thereby tensioning a belt connected between the engine drive shaft and the starter motor shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1976
    Assignee: Benz Vehicle Corporation
    Inventor: William G. Benz