Motor vehicles – Special wheel base – Five or more wheels
Patent
1975-07-07
1977-03-29
Peters, Joseph F.
Motor vehicles
Special wheel base
Five or more wheels
293 1, 293 62, B62D 6112
Patent
active
040144011
ABSTRACT:
A simplified, economical vehicle is disclosed. A steerable front wheel, on the side of the vehicle toward the center of a roadway, is turned by motorcycle-like steering forks. A single powered rear wheel, aligned with the front wheel in a fore-and-aft driving axis, is driven, without a differential, by an electric motor or other motive power. In three of the inventive forms there is only the one front wheel; in another, preferred form there is at least one other front wheel, on the side of the driving axis away from the center of the roadway. It is optionally on the ground all the time during land travel -- or, optionally, normally clear of the ground and contacting it only when the vehicle tilts dangerously toward this wheel. It is swivelly mounted for turning into the plane of vehicle motion. Optionally, there is a second front castor wheel, on the side of the steerable wheel toward the roadway center. In the preferred form and two of the other inventive forms there are shown two freely rotatable rear wheels -- one on each side of the driving wheel and substantially coaxial with it. One of these is on the side of the driving wheel away from the roadway center and is preferably on the ground all the time of land travel; but the other, an optional wheel, is preferably clear of the roadway in normal travel and contacts it only when the vehicle tilts dangerously toward it. A buffer, made of upright cans or the like, sheathed in waterproof material, extends around the vehicle. It provides wheel wells for the side wheels, and has running boards and higher elevations above the side wheels.
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Peters Joseph F.
Silverstrim John P.
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