Patent Application
20140367014
The present invention relates to an anti-skid crawler, and particularly to a motor vehicle anti-skid crawler which is portable, adaptable to a variety of road conditions and applicable to various vehicle types.
Currently, in many countries around the world, the conventional automobile anti-skid chains are broadly used to prevent various types of motor vehicles slipping when travelling in ice-snow, sludge, rubble or desert for over 90 years. The conventional automobile anti-skid chains have following disadvantages:
1. It's bulky and difficult to assemble;
2. It's unobvious to prevent lateral slippage on ice-snow curve;
3. It only can be used in ice-snow road and cannot be used in sludge road, rubble road and desert.
4. It causes the wear of the tire, extremely slow vehicle speed, excessive vibration, the wear of road surface.
Chinese patent NO.ZL03144057.6 disclosed a motor vehicle anti-skid crawler, partially solved the above-mentioned problems and also have the following notable disadvantages:
In functional aspects: {circle around (1)} The degree of eating into the ice-snow is not great, the reaction force to the ground is poor on the ice-snow road segment, it takes off slowly; {circle around (2)} The force against side-slip on the ice-snow curve is insufficient; {circle around (3)} It's difficult to successfully pass through the sludge road segment and desert.
In structural aspects: {circle around (1)} The difficulty of the dental plate manufacturing process is too large; {circle around (2)} The debugging of dynamic balance is complex; {circle around (3)} The total weight is too heavy, and it is inconvenient to carry; {circle around (4)} The vehicle types to which it is applicable are limited.
The primary object of the present invention is to overcome the drawbacks of the aforementioned functions and the complexity in structure, and to provide a novel anti-skid and anti-subsidence crawler which is adaptable to the various road conditions and is convenient to handle.
To achieve the above object, the present invention provides a motor vehicle anti-skid crawler comprising multiple sets of anti-skid dental plates surrounding the outer circumference of the tire and more circumferential links which chain the anti-skid dental plates in turn together, wherein: each set of the anti-skid dental plates includes a main shift-force plate, and a plurality of bifurcated shift-force plates which are formed by respectively extending outwardly at a angle from each end of the main shift-force plate, and the ends of the bifurcated shift-force plates in each sides of the main shift-force plate are connected by a strength coupling plate, the strength coupling plates corresponding to the two adjacent sets of anti-skid dental plates are connected by the circumferential link; each strength coupling plate is provided with a through hole in the middle part which is configured for coupling of a guiding movable rod, the guiding movable rod is further connected with a axial radial links, two wire ropes passes respectively through all the radial links in both sides of the tire and then couple with two turn buckles.
Furthermore, the bifurcated shift-force plate is a triangular cross-sectional body and a triangle body is fixed at the end of the bifurcated shift-force plate, wherein the top end of the triangle body is lower than that of the bifurcated shift-force plate. The triangular zone formed among the two bifurcated shift-force plates in each side of the main shift-force plate and the corresponding strength coupling plate is an isosceles triangle. The main shift-force plate is a trapezoid cross-sectional solid plate body, the top end of the main shift-force plate is provided with a plurality of triangular tooth.
The advantages of the present invention are:
1. The improved anti-skid crawler dental plate, on which the symmetrical four bifurcated shift-force plates form a triangle zone with space to the ground, firmly sticks to the ground so that the vehicle does not rock and shake in driving;
2. The triangular tooth heads of multiple small triangular opening on the main shift-force plate which is in dental plates of the improved anti-skid crawler, make the vehicle take off speedily and rapidly with non-skid, and run very smoothly and forcibly in the thick ice and heavy snow;
3. Both the triangle body on the upper end of two sides of strength coupling plate of the improved anti-skid dental plate 1 and the tip of the bifurcated shift-force plate which is higher than the triangle body make the sideslip completely disappear when the vehicle overcomes the centrifugal force in the curve of the thick ice and heavy snow, sludge road surface, i.e., no sideslip in curve;
4. The improved anti-skid crawler dental plate, the cross section of which inserted into the ice-snow, desert, sludge and marsh is huge, makes the pushing torque of the running vehicle to the ground very strong, and makes the vehicle run very speedily and smoothly;
5. The improved anti-skid dental plate, which has extremely simple manufacturing process, light weight and elegant appearance, can be applicable to various types of vehicles, which greatly reduced the production cost of the crawlers.
The aforementioned and other features and objects of the present invention and the manner of attaining them will become more apparent, and the invention itself will be best understood, by reference to the following description of one or more embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
The Figures depict embodiments of the present invention for purposes of illustration only. One skilled in the art will readily recognize from the following discussion that alternative embodiments of the structures and methods illustrated herein may be employed without departing from the principles of the invention described herein.
Embodiments of the present invention are hereafter described in detail with reference to the accompanying Figures. Although the invention has been described and illustrated with a certain degree of particularity, it is understood that the present disclosure has been made only by way of example and that numerous changes in the combination and arrangement of parts can be resorted to by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.
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In one embodiment of the present invention, in each side of the main shift-force plate 13, there are two bifurcated shift-force plates 14 extending from each end of the main shift-force plate 13, and the two bifurcated shift-force plates 14 are symmetrically arranged, the angle between the two bifurcated shift-force plates 14 in each side is between 30 degrees and 150 degrees, preferably 90 degrees. The triangular space formed between the bifurcated shift-force plate 14 in each side and the corresponding strength coupling plate 12 is an isosceles triangle which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The symmetrical four bifurcated shift-force plates 14 form a triangle zone with space to the ground, firmly sticks to the ground so that the vehicle does not rock and shake in driving.
A triangle body 10 is fixed at the end of the bifurcated shift-force plate 14. Also, the bifurcated shift-force plate 14 is a triangular cross-sectional entity and provided coaxially with the triangle body 10. The top end of triangle body 10 is lower than that of the bifurcated shift-force plate 14. Both the triangle body 10 on the upper end of two sides of strength coupling plate 12 and the tip of the bifurcated shift-force plate 14 which is higher than the triangle body 10 make the sideslip completely disappear when the vehicle overcomes the centrifugal force in the curve of the thick ice and heavy snow, sludge road surface, i.e. no sideslip in curve road.
The main shift-force plate 13 is a trapezoid solid plate body, and the top end of the main shift-force plate 13 is provided with a plurality of triangular tooth, which make the vehicle take off speedily and rapidly with non-skid and run very smoothly and forcibly in the thick ice and heavy snow.
In the aspect of assembly, at the center and both ends of the strength coupling plate 12 there are three through hole. The central through hole is configured to let a guiding movable rod 15 to pass through, the tail of the guiding movable rod 15 is hinged on the strength coupling plate 12, the head of the guiding movable rod 15 is a circular ring. The movement space of the guiding movable rod 15 can be rotated freely. As shown in
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The material of the anti-skid crawler of the present invention may be aluminum alloy, medium-carbon steel or carbon steel.
In the present invention, the cross section that the anti-skid crawler inserted into the ice-snow, desert, sludge and marsh is large and, which makes the pushing torque of the running vehicle to the ground be strong, and makes the vehicle run very speedily and smoothly. Also, the anti-skid crawler is extremely simple manufactured, light weight and elegant appearance, can be applicable to various types of vehicle, which greatly reduced the production cost of crawlers.
While there have been described above the principles of the present invention in conjunction with a lateral stability system, it is to be clearly understood that the foregoing description is made only by way of example and not as a limitation to the scope of the invention. Particularly, it is recognized that the teachings of the foregoing disclosure will suggest other modifications to those persons skilled in the relevant art. Such modifications may involve other features that are already known per se and which may be used instead of or in addition to features already described herein. Although claims have been formulated in this application to particular combinations of features, it should be understood that the scope of the disclosure herein also includes any novel feature or any novel combination of features disclosed either explicitly or implicitly or any generalization or modification thereof which would be apparent to persons skilled in the relevant art, whether or not such relates to the same invention as presently claimed in any claim and whether or not it mitigates any or all of the same technical problems as confronted by the present invention. The applicant hereby reserves the right to formulate new claims to such features and/or combinations of such features during the prosecution of the present application or of any further application derived therefrom.
