Wheel substitutes for land vehicles – Endless belt having nonmetallic track or tread – Track formed of endless flexible belt
Patent
1997-04-18
1999-11-16
Stormer, Russell D.
Wheel substitutes for land vehicles
Endless belt having nonmetallic track or tread
Track formed of endless flexible belt
305179, B62D 5524
Patent
active
059844388
ABSTRACT:
There is provided a rubber track used for an undercarriage of a vehicle, and particularly an improvement in a guide lug which protrudes from an inner peripheral surface of the rubber track. In the rubber track in which a plurality of rubber lugs are formed on an outer peripheral surface of an endless rubber elastic body and a plurality of guide lugs are formed on an inner peripheral surface of the elastic body, the guide lugs being used for transmission of driving force or prevention of detracking between the guide lugs, and track rollers, idlers or sprockets, a heat-resisting thermoplastic resin member having low friction properties, a heat-resisting thermosetting resin member having low friction properties, or a resin member having a Barcol hardness (A type) of 40 degrees or less is exposed at one or more surfaces of each of the guide lugs, the surface or surfaces contacting other member.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5447365 (1995-09-01), Muramatsu et al.
Fukahori Yoshihide
Kato Shingo
Tsunoda Katsuhiko
Bridgestone Corporation
Stormer Russell D.
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