Attached is one of the "solutions" I've come up with but I hope (suspect) there's a better way to do this.

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/example.pd

[r gear1]
|
| [r gear2]
| |
| [t b f]
| / /
|/ /
[/ ]

Thanks! I still had to connect [r gear2] to [/ ] so it'll start properly but this is exactly the kind of thing I was looking for