Truck track drive

• US 9,162,717 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2012
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: OAK NOVATIONS, LTD.
• Original Assignee: OAK NOVATIONS, LTD.
• Inventors: Zakuskin, Yuriy
• Primary Examiner(s): Kotter, Kip T
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHARLESTON, JEAN W
• Application Number:
  US13/350,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20130181508A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,373 Days
• Field of Search: 305/124, 305/125, 305/126, 305/127, 305/130, 305/132, 305/133, 305/143, 305/153, 305/154, 305/155, 301/6.5, 180/9.21, 180/9.26, 180/9.62, 180/65.6, 180/65.7, 180/65.51, 475/331, 475/343, 475/344, 475/346, 475/182, 475/185, 475/186, 475/195
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 55/02 with tracks and additional ground wheels for multi-purpose tractors B62D49/0635
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 55/04 with tracks and alternative ground wheels, e.g. changeable from endless track vehicle into wheeled vehicle and vice versa for multi-purpose tractors B62D49/0635
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 55/084 Endless-track units or carriages mounted separably, adjustably or extensibly on vehicles, e.g. portable track units B62D55/07 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 55/088 with means to exclude or remove foreign matter, e.g. sealing means, self-cleaning track links or sprockets, deflector plates or scrapers
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 55/125 Final drives
• CPC Class Codes: B62D 55/30 Track-tensioning means

Abstract

A truck track drive can include two rollers. The truck track drive can also include a tread configured to pass over top and bottom of a dual rear wheel assembly on a truck and to be moved by rotation of the dual rear wheels. The track drive can also include a compulsory drive unit.

Claims

1. A track drive comprising:

a first roller disposed at a front end of a tension rod;

a second roller disposed at a rear end of the tension rod;

a tread configured to pass over a top and a bottom of a dual rear wheel truck tire assembly and to pass over each of the rollers, the tread being powered by rotation of the dual rear wheel truck tire assembly; and

a compulsory drive system having a toothed drive gear disposed between a first wheel and a second wheel of the dual rear wheel truck tire assembly, a chain and a driven gear coupled to the second roller, the second roller mechanically engaging the tread and causing it to move when the driven gear is turned.