Motor vehicles – Motor-carrying attachments
Patent
1998-01-13
1999-12-21
Hurley, Kevin
Motor vehicles
Motor-carrying attachments
180 142, 180294, 280 327, B62M 714
Patent
active
060036257
ABSTRACT:
A rear-drive, ride-on tractor propulsion unit is provided for articulation with manually steerable utility vehicles wherein a hydrostatic trans-axle transmission couples a gasoline motor to individual ones of two drive wheels about which the propulsion unit framework is pivoted. The drive wheels rotate about fixed axially aligned non-rotatable axles, and are independently driven by belts from the two axles of the transmission. In this manner, equal torque drive to the respective wheels is applied in one drive mode to maintain a preferred straight line drive path for the propulsion unit. For manual steering over a curved path the tractor unit permits a steerable three or four wheel utility vehicle to be pivoted about its rear wheels. A hydrostatic trans-axle transmission drive provides forward and reverse gears and braking. A low center of gravity provided by small wheels is made feasible by faster rotation speeds than the transaxle speeds afford. This is supplied by a gear train coupled between the two trans-axle transmission drive shafts and respective drive wheels.
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Brown Laurence R.
Hurley Kevin
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