Wheel substitutes for land vehicles inventions 07/08

20080179946 - Tapered master link design for tracked undercarriage: A master link for a chain is disclosed. The master link may have a first half link member, a second half link member, and a pin joining the first and second half link members. The master link may also have a shoe fixedly connected to the first half link member... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.L.P.

20080174175 - Master link for machine track and method: A master link for a track of a machine includes a first link member having a profiled surface with a sinusoidal segment defined by a tooth and an adjacent recess. The master link further includes a second link member configured complementarily to the first link member, their respective profiled surfaces... Agent: Caterpillar C/o Liell, Mcneil & Harper

20080174176 - Light weight track for a snowmobile: A ground engaging track for a vehicle has a continuous loop or endless belt body portion having an exterior surface to engage the ground and an interior surface including driven members. The driven members are configured to be engaged by a drive sprocket to rotate the body portion to move... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20080164754 - Debris deflecting device: This invention relates to a device to deflect debris and to reduce the accumulation thereof in the guide lug receiving space defined between the inner and outer portions of a wheel of a tracked vehicle. The device generally comprises a resilient band structure having a loop or collar portion partially... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20080164755 - Structure of coreless crawler: The present invention provides a structure of a coreless crawler comprising: main cords that are embedded in rows in a longitudinal direction of the crawler, two layers of bias cords (a, b) that are embedded at an outer peripheral side of the main cords, bias cords (c) that are laid... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20080164756 - Track: In a track with a rotatable bushing which is brought into engagement with a sprocket of a track-type vehicle, it is intended that strength is enhanced rationally by link functionality sharing and by combination of such assigned functional tasks for achieving further improvements in rotatable bushing function. To this end,... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20080157588 - Track shoe having integral, trapezoid-shaped teeth: A track shoe for connection to a chain link is disclosed. The track shoe may have a generally planar base portion configured to span two opposing elements of the chain link. The base portion may have a leading edge, a trailing edge, and opposing side edges connecting the leading and... Agent: Caterpillar/finnegan, Henderson, L.l.p.