Alternator mounting assembly for vehicles

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, A GENERATOR INCLUDING A MOUNTING CASE AND A ROTATABLE INPUT SHAFT JOURNALED FROM SAID CASE FOR ROTATION ABOUT AN AXIS EXTENDING BETWEEN OPPOSITE ENDS OF SAID CASE WITH ONE OF SAID SHAFT PROJECTING OUTWARDLY OF ONE END OF SAID CASE AND HAVING A DRIVEN WHEEL THEREON, AN INTERNAL COMBINATION ENGINE OF THE TYPE INCLUDING AN OUTPUT SHAFT HAVING A DIRVE WHEEL THEREON AND A FAN SHROUD SPACED AXIALLY IN ONE DIRECTION ALONG SAID SHAFT RELATIVE TO SAID DRIVE WHEEL AND INCLUDING A FIRST PORTION SPACED LATERALLY TO ONE SIDE OF THE AXIS OR ROTATION OF SAID OUTPUT SHAFT AND EXTENING TRANSVERSELY THEREOF AND A SECOND PORTION PROJECTING AWAY FROM SAID FIRST PORTION IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION, AND A GENERATOR MOUNTING ASSEMBLY FOR MOUNTING SAID GENERATOR IN THE AREA SPACED LATERALLY TO SAID ONE SIDE OF THE LAST-MENTIONED AXIS AND DISPOSED BETWEEN PARALLEL PLANES CONTAINING SAID DRIVE WHEEL AND SAID PORTIONS OF SAID SHROUD, RESPECTIVELY, WITH THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF SAID INPUT SHAFT GENERALLY PARALLELING THE AXIS OF ROTATION OF SAID INPUT SHAFT AND SAID WHEELS ALIGNED WITH EACH OTHER, SAID MOUNTING ASSEMBLY INCLUDING A FIRST ELONGATED BRACKET SECURED BETWEEN SAID CASE AND SAID ENGINE AND SECOND AND THIRD ELONGATED BRACKETS SECURED BETWEEN AT GENERALLY RIGHT ANGLES RELATIVE FIRST BRACKET EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID CASE AND SAID TO SAID AXES AND EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID CASE AND SAID ENGINE AND GENERALLY PARALLELING AND DISPOSED ON ONE SIDE OF AND ADJACENT A PLANE CONTAINING SAID SHAFTS ADJACENT SAID SECOND BRACKET BEING SECURED TO AND EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID CASE AND SAID FIRST PORTION OF SAID SHROUD AND GENERALLY PARALLELING SAID AXES, AND SAID THIRD BRACKET BEING SECURED TO AND EXTENDING BETWEEN SAID CASE AND SAID SECOND PORTION OF SAID SHROUD, DISPOSED ON THE SIDE OF THE LAST-MENTIONED PLANE REMOTE FROM SAID FIRST BRACKET, AND EXTENDING AT GENERALLY RIGHT ANGLES RELATIVE TO SAID AXES AND SAID LAST-MENTIONED PLANE.