MUMBAI, India, Aug. 31 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202524099551 A) filed by Deere & Company on October 15, 2025, for Work Vehicle With Interchangeable Power Take Offs.
Inventors include Gallen, John J.; Tieszen, Mark J.; Padmanabhan, Pramod; and Kolte, Parag S..
The application for the patent was published on August 28, 2026, under issue no. 35/2026.
Abstract: A power take-off (PTO) assembly includes a PTO shaft, a rear PTO arrangement having a rear PTO output shaft extending from the transmission and couplable to a first gear train powered by the rotational power from the PTO shaft, and a countershaft couplable to the first gear train to receive the rotational power from the PTO shaft. The countershaft having an output gear at an intermediate location of the transmission forward of the rear PTO arrangement and proximate an access opening of a housing of the transmission. The PTO assembly further includes an auxiliary removable middle PTO arrangement removably attachable to the transmission housing at the access opening and having a middle PTO output shaft and a second gear train configured to mesh with the output gear of the countershaft to drive the middle PTO output shaft with the rotational power from the PTO shaft.
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