Wheel substitutes for land vehicles – Tracks or treads
Reexamination Certificate
2005-03-15
2005-03-15
Stormer, Russell D. (Department: 3617)
Wheel substitutes for land vehicles
Tracks or treads
C305S193000, C305S196000, C305S202000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06866351
ABSTRACT:
A crawler track is provided which is improved in the service life of bushings engaging a driving wheel (sprocket) of a track type vehicle, thereby reducing the running cost and which can be used under high loading conditions and therefore has a wide range of applications covering all types of machines from small-sized to large-sized work machines. In the crawler track of the track type vehicle having a track chain composed of a plurality of track links each having a pair of links spaced apart from each other in a lateral direction and a pin for coupling the pair of links, the track links being connected in the form of a loop by their pins, each bushing engaging the driving wheel (sprocket) is rotatably mounted to its associated pin and a beam for coupling the pair of links is disposed at the center of the space between every adjacent pins.
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Kananen Ronald P.
Komatsu Ltd.
Rader & Fishman & Grauer, PLLC
Stormer Russell D.
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