Motor vehicles – Special wheel base – With means for changing number of supporting wheels – or for...
Patent
1985-06-20
1987-07-28
Love, John J.
Motor vehicles
Special wheel base
With means for changing number of supporting wheels, or for...
180312, 180908, 192 487, B62D 6112
Patent
active
046826688
ABSTRACT:
A motor-driven miniature vehicle having a wheel base less than or equal to its track, a pair of steerable front wheels and a pair of rear wheels, at least one of which is driven. The vehicle has positive camber and sufficient torsional stiffness and wheel radial spring rate so that the inside rear wheel is lifted completely off the ground in a turning maneuver. The vehicle being further provided with an engine drive train and mounting system which employs two centrifugal clutches, one having a low abrupt engagement and disengagement and the other having a gradual higher speed engagement and disengagement.
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Hunkele Paul W.
Salmon Michael E.
Love John J.
Weaver Ross
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