Track system with a support member
AssigneeLear Corporation
InventorAntoine Moulin
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Abstract
A track system may include a track assembly and a support assembly. A track assembly may include a toothed portion. The support assembly may include a support member removable from and adjustably connected to the track assembly. The toothed portion may include a plurality of track teeth. The support member may include an adjuster pinion. The adjuster pinion may include a plurality of pinion teeth configured to engage the plurality of track teeth. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to an engaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are engaged with one another. The adjuster pinion may be adjustable to a disengaged position in which the adjuster pinion and the toothed portion are not engaged with one another.
Claims19
A track system, comprising:
- a track assembly including a toothed portion;
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- a support assembly removable from and adjustably connected to the track assembly, the support assembly comprising an adjuster assembly;
- wherein the adjuster assembly comprises teeth configured to engage the toothed portion of the track assembly and disengage the toothed portion in a disengaged position,
- wherein the adjuster assembly is moveable in a transverse direction towards one of an aligned disengaged position or an unaligned disengaged position when the adjuster assembly is in the disengaged position,
- wherein, in the aligned disengaged position, the adjuster assembly is aligned in a vertical direction with the toothed portion, and in the unaligned disengaged position, the adjuster assembly is vertically unaligned with the toothed portion, and
- wherein the transverse direction is orthogonal to a longitudinal axis of the track assembly and the vertical direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.