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Personal transporter having multiple independent wheel drive

  • US 5,921,338 A
  • Filed: 08/11/1997
  • Issued: 07/13/1999
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/11/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A motor powered, wheeled personal transporter, comprising:

  • a frame having a front longitudinally extending cylindrical beam attached to a front wheel assembly and a rear longitudinally extending cylindrical beam attached to a rear wheel assembly;

    bushing means connecting said front longitudinally extending cylindrical beam and said rear longitudinally extending cylindrical beam, said bushing means allowing independent rotation of said front longitudinally extending cylindrical mean and of said rear longitudinally extending cylindrical beam;

    seat means attached to said bushing means; and

    belt means attached to, and interwoven between, said front longitudinally extending cylindrical beam and said rear longitudinally extending cylindrical beam such that relative rotation between said front wheel assembly and said rear wheel assembly causes relative rotation between said front longitudinally extending cylindrical beam and said rear longitudinally extending cylindrical beam to rotate said seat means a lesser amount than the relative rotation between said front wheel assembly and said rear wheel assembly.

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