Multi-axle trailers

• US 3,290,052 A
• Filed: 06/16/1964
• Issued: 12/06/1966
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Geoffrey M. Stanley
• Original Assignee: Geoffrey M. Stanley
• Inventors: Stanley, Geoffrey M.
• Application Number:
  US04/375,559
• Time in Patent Office: 903 Days
• US Class Current: 280/682
• CPC Class Codes: B60G 5/047 at least one arm being resilient, e.g. a leafspring B60G5/053 takes precedence

Claims

1. IMPROVEMENTS IN MULTIPLE-AXLE TRAILER VEHICLES IN WHICH AT LEAST A PAIR OF TRAILER AXLES ARE POSITIONED REMOTE FROM THE STEERING POINT OF THE TRAILER AXLES, CHARACTERISED BY STEERING MEANS FOR THE SAID AXLES OPERATED BY ENDWISE THRUST ON THE SAID AXLES DUE TO THE VEHICLE TURNING ACTION, THE MECHANISM FOR EFFECTING SAID STEERING COMPRISING, A PAIR OF SPRINGS FOR SAID AXLES TOWARDS THE ENDS OF SAID AXLES, MEANS JOINING THE SPRINGS TO THE SAID AXLES, BRACKETS SECURED TO SAID VEHICLE ENGAGING SAID SPRINGS TO ALLOW MOVEMENT OF SAID SPRINGS IN SAID BRACKETS TO PERMIT SIDEWAYS OR ENDWISE MOVEMENT OF SAID AXLES, A RADIUS ROD ADJACENT EACH SAID SPRING HAVING ONE END COUPLED TO SAID AXLE AND THE OTHER END COUPLED TO AN OFFSET PORTION OF ONE OF SAID BRACKETS FORWARDLY OF THE AXLE WHEREBY THE RADIUS RODS ARE ANGLED ONE IN RELATION TO THE OTHER SO THAT WHEN THE RELEVANT AXLE IS MOVED ENDWISE THE AXLE IS ALSO GIVEN A STEERING ACTION.