Owner Rolls-Royce PLC

Inventors Watson, Francis Russell; Myers, Timothy Mark Stephen

Agent Griffith Hack

Pub. Number AU-A-2008200354

Priority 0702791.5 14.02.07 GB

Filing date 23 January 2008

Wipo publication date 28 August 2008

F16H 25/24 (2006.01) Gearings comprising primarily only cams, cam-followers and screw-and-nut mechanisms - Elements essential to such mechanisms, e.g. screws, nuts

B63H 5/125 (2006.01) Arrangements on vessels of propulsion elements directly acting on water

B63H 20/08 (2006.01) Outboard propulsion units, i.e. propulsion units having a substantially vertical power leg mounted outboard of a hull and terminating in a propulsion element, e.g. "outboard motors", Z-drives

B63H 23/34 (2006.01) Transmitting power from propulsion power plant to propulsive elements

F16C 3/02 (2006.01) Shafts - Shafts

H02K 7/06 (2006.01) Arrangements for handling mechanical energy structurally associated with the machine, e.g. structural association with mechanical driving motor or auxiliary dynamo-electric machine - Means for converting reciprocating into rotary motion or