Land vehicles – Runner vehicle – Occupant steered
Patent
1980-04-10
1982-04-27
Mitchell, David M.
Land vehicles
Runner vehicle
Occupant steered
280 21A, B62B 1312
Patent
active
043267254
ABSTRACT:
A wide runner, steerable, lightweight sled, and more particularly to a sled construction which incorporates the use of a pair of aluminum one piece runner extrusion, at least 21/2" wide, with recessed groove along bottom center and vertical sides for stiffness, together with an aluminum channel member extrusion, which, by the nature of its design and useage, provides integral structural components in the framework of said sled, with steering means provided involving a flexing or tilting of runner members, the degree of flex diminishing rearwardly to zero, allowing the unflexed back end of runner members to slide around curves as in skiing.
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