Torque transmitting system

Claim 1

A TORQUE TRANSMITTTING DEVICE FOR TRANSMITTING TORQUE FROM A DRIVING ROTARY MEANS TO A DRIVEN ROTATY MEANS WHICH ACCOMMODATES RELATIVE TRANSVERSE MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE AXES OF SAID DRIVING AND DRIVEN ROTARY MEANS DURING THE ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT THEREOF COMPRISING A FIRST ROTARY MEMBER HAVING A FIRST AXIS OF ROTATION AND ADAPTED TO BE DRIVINGLY CONNECTED WITH THE DRIVEN ROTATY MEANS TO BE ROTATED THEREBY ABOUT SAID FIRST AXIS, A SECOND ROTARY MEMBER HAVING A SECOND AXIS OF ROTATION AND ADAPTED TO BE DRIVINGLY CONNECTED WITH THE DRIVEN ROTARY MEANS TO ROTATE THE SAME IN RESPONSE TO ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF SAID SECOND ROTARY MEMBER ABOUT SAID SECOND AXIS AND MEANS OPERATIVELY CONNECTED BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND ROTARY MEMBERS AND HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTANT RESULTANT CENTRIFUGAL FORCE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO ZERO DURING OPERATION AND A SUBSTANTIALLY CONSTANT RESULTANT TORQUE TRANSMITTING FORCE SUBSTANTIALLY EQUAL TO ZERO WITH RESPECT TO SAID FIRST AND SECOND AXES OF ROTATION DURING OPERATION FOR TRANSMITTING THE ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF SAID FIRST ROTARY MEMBER ABOUT SAID FIRST AXIS TO A ROTATIONAL MOVEMENT OF IDENTICAL ANGULAR VELOCITY OF SAID SECOND ROTARY MEMBER ABOUT SAID SECOND AXIS WHILE PERMITTING RELATIVE TRANSVERSE PARALLEL MOVEMENT BETWEEN THE AXES OF ROTATION OF SAID ROTARY MEMBERS, SAID LAST-MENTIONED MEANS COMPRISING AN INTERMEDIATE ROTARY MEMBER DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID FIRST AND SECOND ROTARY MEMBERS AND HAVING A THIRD AXIS OF ROTATION PARALLEL WITH SAID FIRST AND SECOND AXES OF ROTATION, A FIRST SERIES OF AT LEAST THREE LINK MEMBERS SUBSTANTIALLY INDENTICAL CONSTRUCTION DISPOSED IN PARALLEL RELATION WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER AND HAVING THEIR ENDS ROTATABLY CONNECTED RESPECTIVELY WITH SAID FIRST ROTARY MEMBER AND SAID INTERMEDIATE ROTARY MEMBER ABOUT AXES SPACED EQUALLY WITHIN RIGHT CYLINDRICAL PLANES OF EQUAL DIAMETER RESPECTIVELY CONCENTRIC WITH SAID FIRST AXIS AND SAID THIRD AXIS, THE LINK MEMBERS OF SAID FIRST SERIES HAVING A DIMENSION MEASURED IN A DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THEIR AXES LESS THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE CORRESPONDING AXES OF ADJACENT LINK MEMBERS AND A SECOND SERIES OF LINK MEMBERS OF SUBSTANTIALLY IDENTICAL CONSTRUCTION DISPOSED IN PARALLEL RELATION WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER AND HAVING THEIR ENDS ROTATABLY CONNECTED RESPECTIVELY WITH SAID INTERMEDIATE ROTARY MEMBER AND SAID SECOND ROTARY MEMBER ABOUT AXES SPACED EQUALLY WITHIN RIGHT CYLINDRICAL PLANES OF EQUAL DIAMETER RESPECTIVELY CONCENTRIC WITH SAID THIRD AXIS AND SAID SECOND AXIS, THE LINK MEMBERS OF SAID SECOND SERIES HAVING A DIMENSION MEASURED IN A DIRECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THEIR AXES LESS THAN THE DISTANCE BETWEEN CORRESPONDING AXES ADJACENT LINK MEMBERS, AND INCLUDING MEANS FOR MOUNTING SAID FIRST AND SECOND ROTARY MEMBERS FOR RELATIVE TRANSVERSE MOVEMENTS THROUGH A RANGE OF POSITIONS WHICH PREVENTS AN ALIGNMENT OF SAID AXES OF ROTATION OF SAID FIRST AND SECOND ROTARY MEMBERS WHILE SAID ROTARY MEMBERS ARE BEING ROTATED.