Wheel substitutes for land vehicles – With interposed friction drive belt
Patent
1987-05-26
1989-01-03
Reeves, Robert B.
Wheel substitutes for land vehicles
With interposed friction drive belt
305 39, 305 54, B62D 5528, B62D 5524
Patent
active
047952229
ABSTRACT:
A soft track or off-road vehicle, with two loops of belting spaced laterally and joining and joined by grouser bars mounted on the outer surface of the loops, extending parallel to one another laterally across the loops and spaced from one another in a direction lengthwise of the loops is provided with facing plates mounted on the outer surface between the grouser bars but spaced from the grouser bars and extending laterally across the loops. Preferably, the facing plates are relatively thin as compared with the grouser bars, are shallowly arcuate in transverse section, with their convex side facing the loop, and formed with a lip extending over and along one side edge of a loop.
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Central Mine Equipment Company
Reeves Robert B.
Stormer Russell D.
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