Motor vehicles – Special driving device – Portable track
Patent
1985-11-04
1987-10-13
Love, John J.
Motor vehicles
Special driving device
Portable track
180 925, 180 958, 180 964, 180183, 305 24, 305 27, B62D 5502, B62D 5506
Patent
active
046992294
ABSTRACT:
An off-road vehicle is equipped with an endless articulated steel band drive system including a drive wheel, a plurality of idle wheels and an endless belt extending around the drive wheel and the idle wheel. A back slider plate extends along the inner surface of the endless belt to urge the ground contact surface of the endless belt against the ground. The leading portion of the back plate rises upwardly at an angle of with respect to the ground. One of the idle wheels is rotatably mounted to the rear end of the back plate and the back plate is mounted to the vehicle frame by a leaf spring.
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Hirose Takeo
Machii Tomomi
Tsutsumikoshi Shinobu
Diederiks, Jr. Everett G.
Love John J.
Suzuki Motor Company Limited
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