Epicyclic gear torque absorbing pinion carrier

Claim 1

A torque absorbing carrier for the pinions which mesh with the sun-wheel and the internal gear ring to drive the co-axial shafts in an epicyclic gear train mounted within a housing comprising: a. two spaced paralleled flanges between which said pinions and said sun-wheel are operationally mounted; b. beams extending between said flanges for rigidly interconnecting the same; c. shaft pins supporting said pinions between said flanges in meshing relationship with the sun-wheel and the internal gear ring; d. one of said flanges being effective to transmit the torque moment produced by the co-axial shafts; e. said shaft pins being resiliently mounted in said torque transmitting flange while being fixedly connected to the other one of said flanges thereby reducing deformation and axial distortion of the pinion shaft pins when subjected to the torque moment; and f. the shaft pin resilient mounting possessing the same load characteristics as the resilience of the beams whereby the shaft pins, when subjected to the torque moment, remain parallel to the co-axial shafts of the gear train regardless of the magnitude of the load resulting in the torque moment.