Rubber crawler and rubber crawler manufacturing method
AssigneeBridgestone Corporation
InventorShingo SUGIHARA
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Abstract
A rubber crawler (10) includes: a rubber belt (12) serving as an example of an endless rubber body entrained around plural wheels; plural rubber projections (14) that are formed at the rubber belt (12) at intervals around a crawler peripheral direction of the rubber belt (12), that project toward an inner peripheral side of the rubber belt (12), and that limit movement of the wheels in a crawler width direction through contact; and at least one metal member (32) embedded in each rubber projection (14), the at least one metal member raising a rigidity of the rubber projection (14) in the crawler width direction, and including a portion that is exposed from the rubber projection (14).
Claims11
A rubber crawler comprising:
- an endless rubber body entrained around a plurality of wheels;
- a plurality of rubber projections that are formed at the rubber body at intervals around a peripheral direction of the rubber body, that project toward an inner peripheral side of the rubber body, and that limit movement of the wheels in a rubber body width direction through contact;
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- at least one metal member embedded in each rubber projection, the at least one metal member raising a rigidity of the rubber projection in the rubber body width direction, and including a portion that is exposed from the rubber projection.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.