An overview of all possible structural schemes of two-carrier planetary gear trains (PGTs) with two compound and four external shafts is made. One of possible application of these PGTs is as change-gears. A few cases of this application are presented and investigated through the torque method. Kinematical possibilities of PGTs in question as function of parameters of component simple PGTs are discussed.
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