Motor vehicles – Special driving device – Portable track
Patent
1977-11-04
1979-07-03
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Motor vehicles
Special driving device
Portable track
81 53R, B62D 5512
Patent
active
041597508
ABSTRACT:
An adapter particularly suited for use in preloading bearings in the final drive of a crawler-type vehicle, including a plate adapted to be mounted concentrically with the sprocket shaft of a final drive, securing devices associated with the plate for securing the plate in concentric relation to the sprocket shaft, a stub shaft extending from one side of the plate, an arm rotatably mounted on the stub shaft and having a radial part extending beyond the periphery of the plate and an axial part terminating in an end on the side of the plate opposite of the stub shaft, a jaw mounted on the end of the arm and adapted to engage a bearing adjusting nut on the final drive, and a torque receiving formation on the arm for receiving a rotative force from a torque wrench or the like and being generally concentrically located with respect to the stub shaft.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2453360 (1948-11-01), Burks
patent: 2459672 (1949-01-01), Morsch
patent: 2632350 (1953-03-01), Kaster
patent: 3978935 (1976-09-01), Dauwalder
Brown Robert E.
Johnson David L.
Lindquist John F.
Caterpillar Tractor Co.
Church Gene A.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
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