Track for soft ground

Details Track for soft ground Track for soft ground

1981-11-02

1984-07-17

Leppink, James A.

Road structure, process, or apparatus

Pavement

Modules or blocks

404 40, 14 24, E01C 516, E01C 908

Patent

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044602910

ABSTRACT:
A reinforcing track for soft ground comprises two rows of pressed sheet metal rib members 1. The inner ends of corresponding rib members 1 in the two rows are articulated to connecting rods 5 near their lower, pointed edges. Longitudinal ties 2 and 8 and transverse ties 3 all of spring steel strip reinforce a plastics sheet covering 7 which together with the ties 2 and 3 are sandwiched between track plates 9 and flanges on the rib members 1. The track is flexible and can be reeled onto, and unreeled from a reel on a vehicle for recovery of and laying the track. The reel is carried by a frame supported on a turntable bearing on the vehicle chassis.

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