Vehicle drive wheel

Details Vehicle drive wheel Vehicle drive wheel

1994-06-24

1996-02-27

Stormer, Russell D.

Land vehicles: wheels and axles

Wheel

Compression wheel

3011051, B60B 2700

Patent

active

054943388

ABSTRACT:
A plastic composite drive wheel is provided for use with larger vehicles such as lawn and garden tractors and rear engine riders. The plastic wheel includes spoke segments formed in the inner and outer faces of the wheel, the segments radially alternating between the inner and outer faces. Molded into the plastic wheel is a powdered metal insert, the insert including spokes or fingers which extend into each plastic wheel spoke segment. The insert is adapted to be fixably received with the drive axle of a transmission for transmitting the torque to the plastic wheel.

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