Wheel substitutes for land vehicles – With means to remove or exclude foreign matter – With deflector plate – track guide means – or scraper
Reexamination Certificate
2003-04-18
2009-08-18
Stormer, Russell D (Department: 3617)
Wheel substitutes for land vehicles
With means to remove or exclude foreign matter
With deflector plate, track guide means, or scraper
C305S116000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07575289
ABSTRACT:
A rubber crawler running device which includes a drive wheel connected to a drive shaft of a vehicle body, an idler wheel, and a rubber crawler having rubber projections formed on an inner peripheral surface thereof at predetermined intervals, the drive wheel and the idler wheel being disposed substantially horizontally, the rubber crawler being wound around the drive wheel and the idler wheel and contacting the running surface, wherein the drive wheel is formed so that engaging teeth thereof which engage with the rubber projections are exposed at right and left sides, and further comprising a guide skirt body fixed to the vehicle body and disposed at transverse direction outer sides of the drive wheel at a portion at which the rubber crawler is wound around the drive wheel, with a gap being kept between the drive wheel and the guide skirt body.
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Akiyama Hitoshi
Sugihara Shingo
Bridgestone Corporation
Oliff & Berridg,e PLC
Stormer Russell D
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