Vehicular attachment system for a snowplow or the like

Details Vehicular attachment system for a snowplow or the like Vehicular attachment system for a snowplow or the like

1987-11-17

1989-10-17

Eickholt, Eugene H.

Excavating

Snow or ice removing or grooming by portable device

With specific means to facilitate connection to, or...

37279, E01H 504

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048737755

ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for engagement with a vehicle is provided which allows a rotatable support wheel of the vehicle to propel the apparatus ahead of the vehicle in the direction the travel thereof. The preferred apparatus includes a snowplow blade or the like, a pair of spaced-apart mounting structures extending rearwardly from the blade, and a pair of horizontally disposed, transverse rollers rotatably coupled with respective mounting structures for engaging a forward peripheral of the front wheel of the vehicle, and elastomeric straps for holding the rollers engaged with the vehicle wheels. In use, forward motion of the vehicle wheels cause the forward peripheral portion of the wheels to engage the respective rollers and propel the apparatus forward for plowing snow or the like.

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"Clear Your Drive The Easy Way", Popular Mechanics, Dec. 1971, p. 166, 190, vol. 136, No. 6.

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