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US 2017/0360270 A1Published application
Surface maintenance machine
AssigneeTennant Company
InventorsMartin L. Dickrell, Ronald W. Lehman, Kyle D. Sedam, Jacob L. Stock
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Abstract
A surface maintenance machine comprising two front wheels, at least one rear wheel, a motive source for providing motive force to at least one front wheel to drive the machine on a surface. Embodiments also include an operator platform allowing an operator to stand thereon extending at least partly around the rear wheel, for supporting an operator in a standing position with the operator's feet on either side of the rear wheel.
Claims18
A surface maintenance machine comprising:
- a maintenance head assembly supported by the machine and extending toward a surface, the maintenance head assembly comprising one or more surface maintenance tools for performing a surface maintenance operation;
- two front wheels, at least one of which is steerable, the two front wheels being positioned to the front of a transverse centerline of the machine when the machine is moving in a forward direction;
- at least one rear wheel positioned to the rear of the transverse centerline, the rear wheel being interior to the front wheels;
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- a motive source for providing motive force to at least one front wheel to drive the machine on a surface, the motive source being coupled to the at least one steerable front wheel.
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