Perpendicularly intersecting gear device

Claim 1

A perpendicularly intesection gear device comprising a first bevel gear, a second bevel gear for meshing with the first bevel gear, a housing comprising mutually mating first and second portions defining respective gear receiving spaces therein, a drive shaft extending through and being secured to the first bevel gear, the first portion of the housing having a pair of first bearing portions formed integrally therewith as a continuation of the material of said first portion for rotatably supporting the drive shaft, the first bearing portions being disposed on opposing sides of the gear receiving space and of the first bevel gear and being adapted for rotatably supporting the drive shaft at a tip end thereof and at a position on the opposite side of said first bevel gear from said tip end, respectively, and the second bevel gear being disposed in the gear receiving space of the first portion of the housing so as to be rotatably and axially stationarily supported therein in mesh with the first bevel gear; the first and second housing portions having cooperating flanges for securing the first housing portion to the second housing portion, the flanges defining a plane which includes the axis of the drive shaft.