Patents Assigned to John A. Horner
  • Gear system and method of assembly
    Patent number: 4296313
    Abstract: A bevel gear system wherein a plastic adaptor of generally frustoconical shape has convergent teeth formed in a recessed frustoconical surface to snap fit over the bevel gear teeth of a more rigid drive gear and similarly has matching gear teeth on an exterior frustoconical surface in mesh with the teeth of a driven bevel gear, which formerly was driven by the teeth of the more rigid gear, and whose axial position has been changed to mesh with the teeth of the adaptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1981
    Assignee: John A. Horner
    Inventors: John A. Horner, Dale W. Wright