Excavating – Snow or ice removing or grooming by portable device – Railway clearer
Patent
1978-11-20
1980-06-17
Eickholt, E. H.
Excavating
Snow or ice removing or grooming by portable device
Railway clearer
180 14A, 180243, E02F 500, B60K 1734
Patent
active
042076919
ABSTRACT:
An off-highway earth-moving vehicle of the scraper type which includes a tractor section and scraper section interconnected by a draft frame providing rolling rigidity, each section having a pair of ground-engaging wheels. A floating axle assembly is provided on the tractor section permitting independent movement of the tractor wheels in the following of ground contours. The scraper section is driven by a prime mover having a torque converter for coupling to the rear axle. The prime mover, in addition, drives an AC synchronous generator which is electrically connected to an induction motor in the tractor section. The motor in turn is drivingly coupled, via a second torque converter, to the tractor wheels. The sections of the vehicle are so proportioned in size and weight that the weight applied to the scraper wheels under both loaded and unloaded conditions is approximately twice the weight applied to the tractor wheels and the drive systems in the sections are so proportioned that at normal operating engine r.p.m. the power supplied to the scraper wheels is approximately twice the power provided by the motor to the tractor wheels. This is preferably accomplished by using torque converters having respective maximum horsepower output ratings at an input speed corresponding to normal operating prime mover r.p.m. which substantially total the maximum rated horsepower produced at such r.p.m. and which bear a ratio to one another on the general order of 2:1.
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Hyler John H.
Johnson Clifford E.
Lott Walter E.
Eickholt E. H.
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
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