Abstract: A tripod head (5, 5′) for a support for a supply device for patients, with an elongated supply part (10, 10′) with feeds (11, 12) of supply lines and a carrying device (13, 13′, 14, 14′, 16, 19) attached to the supply part for carrying appliances, is provided, wherein the carrying device is adjustable in position on the supply part.

Abstract: A method for storing and/or transporting outboard marine motors utilizes a rack having a rigid, substantially planar, horizontal base with parallel horizontal channels for insertion of fork lift tines. The base supports a pair of upright opposing frames, each frame in turn supporting a respective motor mounting beam. Preferably the frames and base are made of metal, while the motor mounting beams comprise a plywood plank with a metal sheath. At least two outboard motors can be mounted to each beam. Then a forklift is used to lift a fully loaded rack and load it onto a trailer or other carrier vehicle. A multiplicity of loaded racks are transported to a shipping destination. At the shipping destination, the outboard motors are removed from the racks. The empty racks are then returned to the point of origin.

Abstract: A prestressing device for a mechanical component of a mechanical finishing device has at least one rigid prestressing unit mounted in the mechanical component. This can provide a prestressing tension to the mechanical component. The bending and the deformation of the mechanical component can be prevented. The useful life of the mechanical finishing device is prolonged.

Abstract: A docking station (10) comprises a mast latch assembly (12) which attaches to the outer end of a mast (M). An adapter (14) which connects to a sensor platform (G) disengagingly attaches to the mast latch assembly. An isolation assembly (16) mounts on a surface (D) of a vehicle (V) adjacent an opening (O) through which the mast extends and retracts. As the mast is retracted, the adapter (14) engages with isolation assembly (16) and disengages from the mast latch assembly. This attaches the sensor platform to the isolation assembly which now protects the sensors from vibrations produced by the vehicle and any shocks created by the terrain over which the vehicle travels. It also allows the sensors to be used for surveillance during vehicle travel. When the vehicle stops and the mast is again extended, the adapter (14) re-engages with the mast latch assembly and is disengaged from the isolation assembly.

Abstract: A laminating system includes a feeder apparatus, a laminating apparatus, and a trimmer apparatus mounted on a movable support structure that is adapted to maintain alignment in order to enable a user to move the system without upsetting the alignment. Simultaneous and differential speed control components for the feeder apparatus and the laminating apparatus are provided according to a separate aspect of the invention to enable the user to control spacing between individual sheets as they move along a feed path to the laminating apparatus. A guide plate provided on the feeder apparatus according to another aspect of the invention has an upwardly extending surface that faces the leading edges of sheets in a stack of sheets.

Abstract: A center bearing hanger assembly (68) for supporting a drive shaft (62) of a vehicle is provided. The center bearing hanger assembly (68) includes a center bearing (66), which supports the drive shaft, having an outer housing (76). The outer housing (76) is mechanically coupled to a male hanger (102). The male hanger (102) is received by a female receptacle (104). The female receptacle (104) is attached to an undercarriage of the vehicle. The center bearing hanger assembly (68) increases the ease of vehicle assembly.

Abstract: A processing system is disclosed which includes first and second chambers, each for accommodating a processing apparatus therein, each chamber being able to be kept gas tight, a coupling member for coupling the processing apparatuses accommodated in the first and second chambers with each other, and an elastic gas tightness holding member for gas tightly sealing portions between the coupling member and the first and second chambers.

Abstract: A processing system is disclosed which includes first and second chambers, each for accommodating a processing apparatus therein, each chamber being able to be kept gas tight, a coupling member for coupling the processing apparatuses accommodated in the first and second chambers with each other, and an elastic gas tightness holding member for gas tightly sealing portions between the coupling member and the first and second chambers.

Abstract: A support apparatus for portable computers utilizes a plurality of legs removably coupled to a pedestal that incorporates a storage compartment within which the plurality of removable legs may be stored when not in use. By incorporation of a storage compartment within the pedestal, the overall bulk of the support apparatus is reduced, and furthermore, the removable legs are retained in such a manner that all components of the support apparatus can be transported as a unit.

Abstract: In a method of exchanging a machine part of a machine plant, the machine part to be replaced being one of multiple machine parts of the machine plant, the multiple machine parts being coupled to one another and being arranged on a common table plate which is anchored, via individual supports, in the ground, and which has recesses for accommodating the machine parts, a metal frame is set up. Bearings are provided on a new machine part, and the machine part is assembled, oriented, and tested on the metal frame. A machine part to be replaced is uncoupled from the multiple machine parts. The machine part to be replaced is removed from a recess in the table plate. Ground supports for the new machine part on the metal frame are installed and anchored to the ground in the area of the recess. The new machine part is positioned on the metal frame on the metal supports. The new machine part on the metal frame is connected to the metal supports.

Abstract: A stacked appliance assembly includes a lower unit, such as a clothes washing machine, and an upper unit, such as a clothes dryer. A support member is secured on top of the lower unit within the perimeter thereof. A base member is secured to the bottom of the upper unit within the perimeter thereof. The base member of the upper unit is adapted to slide upon the support member of the lower unit and to be secured thereto without the use of external mounting brackets. The support member and base member mounting arrangement provides automatic self-centered alignment of the upper unit on the lower unit. A plurality of tabs on the support member of the lower unit are received within slots on the base member of the upper unit so as to interlock the units together.

Abstract: A processing system is disclosed which includes first and second chambers, each for accommodating a processing apparatus therein, each chamber being able to be kept gas tight, a coupling member for coupling the processing apparatuses accommodated in the first and second chambers with each other, and an elastic gas tightness holding member for gas tightly sealing portions between the coupling member and the first and second chambers.

Abstract: A skid (10) is disclosed which includes a mainframe (22) and detachable side wings (22,24) which can be removed from the mainframe for transportation and attached to the mainframe at the site of use to enhance stability. The engine (14), compressor (12) and other equipment are mounted between the main beams (26, 28) of the mainframe (20) and suitable plates (136) are interdisposed between the main beams to allow a walkway between the engine and the compressor. Grating (156) is provided on other portions of the skid to facilitate use by operational personnel. All pipe runs beneath the grating and provisions are made for fluids to drain from the engine and compressor to storage tanks within the skid.

Abstract: An adjustable keyboard holder for ergonomically designed workstations. The present invention provides a keyboard holder that is infinitely adjustable both angularly and vertically. The keyboard holder includes a locking apparatus that allows ease of adjustment as well as restraining the keyboard holder from movement when locked. This keyboard holder allows adjustment without interfering with the use of an underdesk visual display terminal.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for preparing or repairing a machine foundation by using a hollow form which surrounds vertically extending reinforcement rods and is filled with a fortifying material to secure the hollow form to a slab. The form is preferably made of an aggregate filled thermosetting resin or a thermoplastic resin which are corrosion and chemical resistant materials free from fluid attack such as the liquids in the machine, for example, in a pump the fluids being either the lubricating fluids or the fluids being pumped. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a hollow form which may be used either to prepare a machine foundation or to repair a degraded slab or foundation and preferably is a single form.

Abstract: A computer stand has shelves for supporting a keyboard and monitor pivotally connected to a pivot rod which is transversely supported between side frames at the front thereof. Rear cross beams connect the side frames. Monitor and keyboard braces allow independent adjustment of the angles of the shelves. The height of the keyboard shelf and monitor shelf is also adjustable. Printer and CPU shelves may also be mounted on the side frames.

Abstract: A remotely operated mechanism is used to mount an engine in a compartment ere connections between the engine and compartment are difficult to access or see. The mechanism comprises a mounting adapter which is fit to the engine and which mates to a mounting block connected to the floor of the compartment. The adapter has a ridge, an adapter bore through the ridge, and a facial flat on either side of the ridge. The mounting block has a channel whose sides closely receive the ridge, and has two block bores along a common axis. Mounting flats on the block interface with the adapter's flats when the block and adapter are fully engaged. To fasten the adapter to the mounting block, a plunger is biased to translate in one of the block bores until a keeper of the plunger fits closely both in the ridge bore and the other block bore. The plunger position is controlled by a cable connected thereto, and a locking device on the cable releasably fixes the cable in a selected position.

Abstract: A workstation assembly which includes an underdesk monitor support assembly and an underdesk keyboard support assembly. The monitor support assembly and the keyboard support assembly can both be individually adjusted vertically, angularly, and horizontally relative to the workstation. An actuator member for each of the support assemblies allows the support assemblies to be locked into selected vertical and angular positions.The monitor support assembly and the keyboard support assembly are mounted onto brackets which are easily installed on most desks and counter-type workstations. The workstation assembly can be used in original equipment workstations or installed as a conversion kit.

Abstract: An adjustable keyboard holder. The present invention provides a keyboard holder that is infinitely adjustable both angularly and vertically. The keyboard holder includes a locking apparatus that allows ease of adjustment as well as restraining the keyboard holder from movement when locked. This keyboard holder allows adjustment without interfering with the use of an underdesk visual display terminal.

Abstract: A radial fan with an axial housing, in particular for conveying chemically aggressive air and gases, the approximately circular cylindrical plastic housing of which has a rotationally symmetrical inlet funnel at one of its ends and an outlet funnel at its other end, and close behind the inlet funnel encloses a plastic impeller arranged coaxially with the latter, which possesses at its circumference apertures for the approximately radial discharge of the air or gases, conveyed by its curved guide blades, into the surrounding housing, the electromotor driving the impeller being situated inside a separately ventilated, plastic inner housing which penetrates the housing of the radial fan and is sealed with respect to the latter, has an electromotor carried by a support plate, which in turn is carried by four support columns, fastened to a baseplate, wherein the housing, together with the inner housing connected rigidly thereto, is connected detachably to this baseplate.

Abstract: A mounting frame is disclosed for supporting a speed control device and a drive source in operative relationship. The frame is preferably of U-shape configuration having spaced apart, parallel legs which define a section in a first plane for mounting receipt of one of said drive source and said speed control device, and a second section for cantilever support from said first section when installed, said second section of said legs being located in a different plane than said first section of said legs and being adapted for mounting receipt of the other of said drive source and said speed control device. The second cantilevered section of said legs is not supported from said one of said drive source and said speed control device, and the mounting structure precludes reaching of the resonant frequency of the drive source support structure during the operating range of same or significant transfer of vibration from one of said drive source and said speed control device to the other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a combination power and heat unit with a bedplate (1), flanged-together machines (2, 3), a noise suppressor (8), an exhaust-gas heat exchanger (9), a cooling-water heat exchanger (19) as well as the associated auxiliary apparatus and piping, wherein the bedplate (1) shelters the noise suppressor (8) and the exhaust-gas heat exchanger (9) along its opposite longitudinal sides below the machines (2, 3), which are elastically supported on the bedplate (1).

Abstract: An automatic switching mechanism for a model plane starter motor having a clutch bushing for gripping the propeller spinner of the plane includes a base member, a movable member movably mounted to the base member, means for mounting a starter motor to the movable member; means for biasing the movable member to a first position; and switch means for closing the electrical power circuit through the starter motor as the movable member approaches a second position responsive to the engagement of the airplane propeller spinner with the starter motor clutch bushing.

Abstract: A motor mounting structure for washing machines includes a motor mount mounted on the outer bottom of a water-receiving tub by bolts and having an upper surface and short columnar rubber buffers interposed between a bracket of a motor and the upper surface of the motor mount. Metallic end plates are secured to upper and lower ends of each rubber buffer so that each rubber buffer is coupled to the motor bracket and the upper surface of the motor mount, respectively.

Abstract: An overhead support for receiving medical appliances comprises an extension arm and appliance receiving means and is modified for receiving various chassis-mounted appliances on said appliance receiving means. To this end the appliance receiving means is level-adjustable such that it receives a medical appliance carried on a chassis by grabbing the chassis from below.

Abstract: A corner mounting unit for a computer and like equipment quickly attaches to two adjoining surfaces at the same height. The mounting unit includes a frame having a slightly elevated plate with attachments positioned at selected locations whereby computer components or accessories may be positioned and firmly supported directly or indirectly at any of such variety of locations. A keyboard or bridging surface is captured by the frame and extends forwardly of the unit at a lower elevation and bridging the included angle between the adjoining surfaces. A separate adjustable keyboard may be employed. Also adjustable monitor turntables or swing arm attachments may be secured to the unit to position the computer components or accessories at the desired location for effective use. The unit eliminates the need for an expensive and complex intermediate or third top and the requisite hardware.

Abstract: A support frame for supporting a computer and its accessories comprises a base frame assembly and an upper frame assembly, each having two side rails and two end rails defining a respective peripheral frame, retaining means on each peripheral frame to retain a computer or a computer accessory against dislodgement when supported by the base or upper frame assembly, and two carry handle assemblies which join the rails of the base frame and upper frame assemblies and retain them horizontal, each handle assembly having a handle which extends outwardly away from sides of both the base and upper frame assemblies.

Abstract: A computer input device removably mounted to a keyboard is disclosed. A bar, which may be slightly longer than the width of the keyboard, is slidably mounted beneath the keyboard. The bar is slidable from a first position in which one end of the bar extends beyond the side of the keyboard to a second position in which the other end of the bar extends beyond the other side of the keyboard. An input device, such as a trackball, is removably attached, for example, by hook and loop fasteners, to the end of the bar which extends beyond the side of the keyboard. To move the device to the other side of the keyboard, the device is lifted off the end of the bar, the bar is slid under the keyboard until the other end extends beyond the other side of the keyboard, and the device is attached on the other end of the bar. The removable mount of the present invention thus accommodates left and right side mounting, eases the switching from side to side, and takes up minimum space.

Abstract: A keyboard storage apparatus for supporting a keyboard and for moving the supported keyboard between a storage, non-use position and an extended, use position. The apparatus comprises a spaced apart pair of elements each including a support element having a side inverted U-shaped opening to store a keyboard therein; an elongated, slidable shelf adapted for slidable movement within the opening between a storage position wherein the keyboard is within the opening and a use position wherein the keyboard extends beyond the end of the support element; and a fixed front and adjustable back keyboard retainer on the shelf to retain the keyboard in position.

Abstract: A compact computer support stand that includes an open frame having a pair of vertically disposed front legs and a second pair of vertically disposed shorter rear legs. A keyboard table is horizontally disposed from the top of the front legs so that the table extends forwardly from the frame. An inclined monitor platform is mounted at one end in the top part of the rear legs and extends upwardly at an angle. The other end of the platform is supported between the front legs of the frame upon a horizontally disposed bar. Clamps are provided to hold a monitor upon the inclined platform. A rectangular bracket is connected between the two pairs of legs beneath the incline platform. A shelf is seated upon the bracket upon which is supported the disk drive of the computer.

Abstract: This invention relates to an elongated support unit for use in cooperating sets such as matched pairs. The unit has a frame having one or more substantially horizontal stages, one above the other, below its top. Each stage is equipped with a movable platform that can be drawn forward and retracted. The platform is disposed to share a load with at least one corresponding platform of another unit of the set. A set of the units can be adapted particularly well to carrying a CRT, computer, and/or printer across their tops and a keyboard borne on cooperating movable platforms therebelow.

Abstract: There is disclosed a portable computer system including a computer, a power supply for the computer and a plate assembly which provides a support for the power supply external to the computer and a foot for disposing the computer in a desired position. The plate assembly includes a first plate to which the computer is attached, a second plate to which the power supply is attached and a hinge coupling the first and second plates together. The hinge allows the plates to be in substantial planar alignment or at an angle to each other to permit the second plate to function as a foot for the computer.

Abstract: A coupling device is provided for mounting a dryer above a washer wherein the device includes side brackets attachable to side walls of the washer to permit removal of the washer top panel without disassembly of the coupling device or removal of the dryer. A rear brace strengthens the coupling device and a front panel provides a finished look. A rear spacer bracket is used if an exhaust conduit is to be directed downwardly behind the dryer, the spacer bracket preventing crushing or dislodging of the conduit.

Abstract: A modular constructed supporting frame having a specific constructional shape affording interchangeability, such that the frame may be converted to a base unit, stacking unit, or a floor line unit, adapted to be combined with a modular rollstand frame into a floor unit. The modular frame includes a cavity cast pedestal, providing stacking convenience between modular frames while permitting internal access for repairing or replacement of operating units supported by the frame.

Abstract: A workstation for computer-aided design comprises an L-shaped main support frame having a monitor support panel which is both tiltable and slidable fore and aft. Connected between the horizontal elements of the L-shaped support frame is a secondary support frame carrying a digitizer support and a keyboard support. The keyboard support is forward and below the level of the digitizer support. The digitizer support is slidable fore and aft on the secondary frame, and the secondary frame itself is slidable fore and aft, and forwardly tiltable, relative to the main support frame. The main support frame rests on nylon feet, which are slidable on a table top. A centrally located foam pad is connected to the main support frame through a swivel mechanism, and is in compression and in frictional engagement with the table top, so that the workstation can be swivelled about a vertical axis, but translational movement is prevented.

Abstract: A structure for mounting, on an engine body, a plurality of auxiliaries such as an alternator, a compressor for an air conditioner, a power steering device, and the like, which are driven via respective belts by a crank pulley of the engine of the vehicle. The auxiliaries are fixed on a single structured bracket at one sides thereof in multistages. The adjacent auxiliaries are rigidly connected to each other by means of respective brackets at other sides thereof opposite from the single structured bracket.

Abstract: A turbine pedestal for supporting turbines and a generator installed in a generating plant is composed of a frame split into segments formed of concrete reinforcing steel platen and reinforced concrete as its main components. The turbine pedestal includes a deck of a concrete structure open only at the top and having reinforcements in addition to the platen arranged compactly in the vicinity of the top of the concrete as in a structure of the prior art, but less than the prior art in the vicinity of the sides and bottom due to the reinforcing affect of the platen. The segments of the frame formed of steel are prefabricated in the plant and have a shape and weight suitable for transportation to the site of construction. The segments of the frame are firmly connected together as by welding or interconnected through a concrete connection structure having compactly arranged reinforcements.

Abstract: A system of technology teaching equipment including a support structure providing both horizontally and vertically disposed support areas with means for the removable attachment of components, the support areas including T-slots for the engagement of complementary parts of the components or of mounting brackets therefor, and/or for the engagement of the heads of respective fasteners.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and means for replacing upper and lower corrugated rolls in a single facer having a cassette frame for rotatably supporting the upper and lower rolls and a main frame to which the cassette frame is detachably connected. The method comprises the steps of suspending and moving away the cassette frame apart from a predetermined mounting position in the single facer, keeping a spare cassette rotatably supporting other upper and lower rolls waiting in a suspended condition and fixing the spare cassette frame to the predetermined mounting position in the single facer in place of the cassette frame removed. Means for performing the method is disclosed which comprises a cassette frame rotatably supporting the upper and lower rolls; and a main frame carrying a pressure roll and a gluing unit. The cassette frame is detachably connected to the main frame.

Abstract: An assembly for mounting a driven machine and drive includes a support frame on a foundation. The drive is secured to a set of mounting plates which are disposed directly on the support frame. The driven machine is carried by a set of mounting units each of which comprises a pair of spaced carrier elements and a mounting plate arranged between the carrier elements. The carrier elements and the respective mounting plates have cooperating guide means which enable the mounting plates to be adjusted relative to the support frame. In mounting the driven machine and its drive, the two are roughly aligned by shifting the mounting units and/or the mounting plates for the drive on the support frame. Once the driven machine and its drive have been roughly aligned, the mounting units as well as the mounting plates for the drive are anchored in the foundation and welded to the support frame.

Abstract: A computerized executive work station takes the form of an executive-type desk into whose surface a computer display screen and keyboard have been recessed. The screen is disposed at an acute angle to the desk surface and is so positioned with respect to the keyboard that both the keyboard and the screen are concurrently within the field of vision of the near portion of bifocal eyeglasses worn by a person seated at the desk, and at approximately the same distance from that person's eyes. The screen and keyboard are offset from the center of the desk's knee opening so as to preserve a maximum of desk top space within the reach of the person's writing hand. Infrequently used controls, disk drive slots, and the like are mounted on vertical surfaces of the desk so as not to occupy any desk top space; and the screen may optionally be arranged to swing entirely below the desk top so that the screen and keyboard may be covered over for utilization of the entire desk top as a writing surface.

Abstract: An improved platform (10) for mounting a motor (13) and a driven device (11) to facilitate adjusting tension on a drive belt 20. The motor (13) is mounted by means of bolts (14) which pass through a motor base (30) and slots (26 or 27) in the mounting platform (10) and engage openings (32) in a sub-plate (31). A screw (22) positions the sub-plate (31) to tension the belt (20). Two of the mounting platform slots 26 are offset relative to two other mounting platform slots 27 to maintain motor alignment as the belt tension is adjusted.

Abstract: A projector stacking stand for supporting at least one image projector comprises a frame and at least one mounting platform connected to the frame with ends supporting an image projector. Each mounting platform is connected to the frame for enabling adjustment of the pitch, roll and yaw thereof relative to the frame by means of a gimbal having three discrete pivot axes corresponding to pitch, roll and yaw axes. The gimbal is moved about the pitch and roll axes by two shafts, each mounted on the gimbal for independent rotation with the axis thereof disposed parallel to the pitch axis and a cable for each shaft having at least one turn therearound. Each cable is connected to the frame under tension with a portion above and below the turn around the shaft and each shaft is rotatable to effect vertical movement thereof along its cable, whereby pitch adjustment is obtained by rotating the two shafts simultaneously in the same direction and roll adjustment is obtained by rotating the shafts individually.

Abstract: A mounting system for two turboshaft gas turbine engines which are connected by a coupling gearbox. The mounting system comprises a front mounting attached to the gearbox which permits pivotal movement of the engine/gearbox assembly but restrains longitudinal movement and two strut members which support the engines vertically but provide no lateral or longitudinal support. The engines are interconnected by link members and an intermediate member rotatably attached to the vehicle which permit relative lateral movement between the engines but constrain any lateral movements of the engines which are in unison relative to the vehicle.

Abstract: A combined appliance is provided which includes unifying support structure. First and second appliances each have cabinets for enclosing the respective appliances. The first appliance is supported in an elevated posture on support structure including a pair of L-shaped support members. The second appliance is engageable with the floor and has side panels with lower recesses for receiving floor engaging portions of the support members. The lower recesses are in closely spaced juxtaposition to the surface engaging support members for stabilizing the first appliance and the support members. The side panels of the first and second appliances are substantially aligned with the sides of the L-shaped support members to provide the combination with the characteristics and stability of a unitary appliance.

Abstract: A lateral support for a squeegee of an application mechanism of an application machine, has a supporting element arranged to support one end portion of a squeegee, and at least one substantially upright upwardly open guiding element arranged to slidingly guide the supporting element. The supporting element can be guided in or on the guiding element. An application mechanism of an application machine has perhaps a rotary stencil, a squeegee perhaps inside the rotary stencil, and a lateral support including a supporting element and an upwardly open guiding element arranged to slidingly guide the supporting element.

Abstract: A heavy and elongate recumbent load, such as a missile, is floatingly supported by two pairs of hydraulic pistons engaging it forwardly and rearwardly of its center of gravity, the pistons of each pair being oppositely inclined at 45.degree. to the horizontal. Each piston is part of a single-acting jack whose cylinder has its bottom end connected via a pair of antiparallel check valves to a source of hydraulic fluid, such as a pump in parallel with an accumulator, whose pressure substantially balances the component of the load bearing upon the respective piston. Each check valve has a bising spring so adjusted that it allows the valve to open in response to a manual force applied to the load near the point of attack of the associated piston whereby the load can be reoriented by hand, e.g. for alignment with a launching tube into which a missile is to be inserted with the aid of a carriage equipped with the four hydraulic jacks.

Abstract: A bar stock feeder has both horizontal and vertical adjustment of the carrier standards and a quick acting locking and pneumatic connecting assembly for engaging the bar stock tube assembly which is supported and aligned on the standard by a retainer assembly.

Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for the prestressed assembly of machine- and base-modules offering extensive possibilities of combining modules in different positions. According to the invention jointing arrangements are achieved which satisfy the requirements of suitability for dismantling without at the same time greatly reducing the degree to which modules can be combined.The modules according to the invention comprise a number of load-bearing devices each of which is designed with a circular conically concave abutment face, the apex of the cone being directed towards the module and the center axis of the cone at right angles towards the parting plane. If two modules are assembled with one another a gap is brought about between the conical abutment faces of the adjustment modules capable of accommodating a position-setting spacer element.

Abstract: An electric-hydrostatically powered vehicle has an electric motor connected through a gear box to a hydrostatic pump which powers the vehicle. The vehicle chassis includes a main frame portion and a removable subframe portion which is resiliently mounted in spaced-apart, overlying relationship on the main frame portion. The subframe provides a platform for mounting the motor, gear box and pump independently of the main frame of the vehicle to define a removable drive module. The subframe provides planar mounting surfaces that enable translational and angular positioning of the motor and gear box in three dimensions to align their shafts. The module is preassembled by mounting the motor and gear box on the platform, aligning and connecting their shafts, and securing the motor and gear box to the platform. Thereafter, the module is installed as a unit into the vehicle, the alignment of the shafts being undisturbed.