Multiple ratio steering system

Claim 1

IN A STEERING DEVICE, THE COMBINATION OF A HOLLOW INPUT SHAFT ADAPTED TO CARRY A STEERING MEANS, TWO FIRST GEARS OF DIFFERENT PITCH DIAMETERS CONNECTED TOGETHER AND SLIDABLY MOUNTED ON SAID INPUT SHAFT FOR CONCURRENT MOVEMENT THEREALONG AND KEYED TO SAID INPUT SHAFT FOR ROTATION THEREWITH, A SECOND SHAFT COUPLED TO MEANS TO BE STEERED AND CARRYING TWO SECOND GEARS OF DIFFERENT PITCH DIAMETERS, ONE OF SAID FIRST GEARS BEING ADAPTED IN ONE POSITION ALONG SAID INPUT SHAFT TO MESH WITH ONE OF SAID GEARS TO PROVIDE A FIRST SPEED COMBINATION BETWEEN SAID INPUT SHAFT AND SAID SHAFT, THE OTHER OF SAID FIRST GEARS BEING ADAPTED IN ANOTHER POSITION ALONG SAID INPUT SHAFT TO MESH WITH THE OTHER OF SAID SECOND GEARS TO PROVIDE A SECOND SPEED COMBINATION BETWEN SAID INPUT SHAFT TO SAID SECOND OUTPUT SHAFT, MEANS SUPPORTING SAID SHAFTS AND THE FOUR SAID GEARS IN SUCH MANNER AS TO PERMIT SAID MESHING OF SAID GEARS, PUSH-PULL GEAR SHIFTING MEANS INCCLUDING A GEAR SHIFTING SHAFT COXIAL WITH AND EXTENDING FROM THE INSIDE CENTER OF SAID INPUT SHAFT, AND COUPLING MERANS BETWEEN SAID GEAR SHIFTING SHAFT AND THE TWO SAID FIRST GEARS ADAPTED TO SHIFT SAID FIRST GEARS BY SLIDING SAID FIRST GEARS ALONG SAID INPUT SHAFT INTO SAID ONE OR ANOTHER POSITION TO PROVIDE EITHER ONE OR THE OTHER OF SAID SPEED COMBINATIONS WHEREBY SAID STEERED MEANS IS DRIVEN BY SAID STEERING MEANS IN ONE OF TWO ALTERNATELY SELECTABLE SPEED RATIOS, SAID INPUT SHAFT HAVING A SLOT IN ONE PORTION THERE OF, AND SAID COUPLING MEANS INCLUDING A PIN EXTENDING THROUGH SAID SLOT AND COUPLED TO ONE OF SAID FIRST GEARS AND TO SAID GEAR SHIFTING SHAFT.