Wheel substitutes for land vehicles – Tracks or treads – With roller means
Patent
1997-02-25
1998-11-24
Stormer, Russell D.
Wheel substitutes for land vehicles
Tracks or treads
With roller means
305123, 305127, 305201, 114270, 440 95, B62D 5508
Patent
active
058398023
ABSTRACT:
A light weight track system for a buoyant amphibious vehicle, the vehicle having two pontoons, the pontoons having a flat horizontal top surface and a flat horizontal bottom surface, each end of the flat horizontal top surface and the flat horizontal bottom surface being connected by a flat inclined surface, the track system including a plurality of treads connected by a single continuous drive chain assembly around the outside of each of the pontoons, the flat horizontal top surface and the flat horizontal bottom surface having a channel therein for rotatable receipt of the drive chain assembly, the drive chain assembly including a plurality of rotatable drive rollers connected to the treads and connected to adjacent drive rollers by links to form a continuous drive chain extending completely around the outer surface of each of the pontoons, each tread having an idler roller connected at each end thereof which contacts the surface of the pontoon to support the tread.
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Ray David L.
Stormer Russell D.
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