US 11,808,352 B2
Idler sprocket shaft support device
Larry R. Buchanan, Cle Elum, WA (US)
Filed by Larry R. Buchanan, Cle Elum, WA (US)
Filed on Sep. 9, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/941,434.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/242,480, filed on Sep. 9, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0073088 A1, Mar. 9, 2023
Int. Cl. F16H 7/12 (2006.01); F16H 7/08 (2006.01)
CPC F16H 7/1263 (2013.01) [F16H 2007/088 (2013.01); F16H 2007/0842 (2013.01); F16H 2007/0891 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sprocket shaft support device comprising:
a first plate including a first plate surface with a first plate elongate slot;
a second plate including a second plate aperture, the second plate at a non-zero angle with respect to the first plate;
a spacer including a spacer first end, a spacer second end opposite the spacer first end, and a spacer through hole extending from the spacer first end to the spacer second end, the spacer first end abutted the first plate surface at the first plate elongate slot;
a sprocket shaft passing through the spacer through hole and the first plate elongate slot;
an elongate support member with a first end coupled to the spacer and a second end extending away from the spacer and through the second plate aperture; and
a first locking mechanism configured with the second end of the elongate support member and adapted to lock the second end of the elongate support member within the second plate aperture.