Vehicle Articulating and Caster Steering
AssigneeStinger Equipment, Inc.
InventorDavid Michael Cook
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Abstract
A ground maintenance vehicle that includes: front steering wheels; rear drive wheels; a frame with a first and second pivot point; a single lever steering assembly with a single lever steering control, where the single lever steering assembly is coupled to the first pivot point; multi-axis articulating joint coupled to the second pivot point; a front caster steering assembly coupled to the multi-axis articulating joint; and where the front caster steering assembly and the multi-axis articulating joint simultaneously provide articulating and caster steering proportional to lateral movement from the single lever steering control.
Claims19
A ground maintenance vehicle comprising:
- one or more front steering wheels;
- one or more rear drive wheels;
- a frame including a first pivot point and a second pivot point;
- a single lever steering assembly including a single lever steering control, wherein the single lever steering assembly is coupled to the first pivot point;
- a multi-axis articulating joint coupled to the second pivot point;
- a front caster steering assembly coupled to the multi-axis articulating joint;
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- wherein the front caster steering assembly and the multi-axis articulating joint simultaneously provide articulating and caster steering proportional to lateral movement from the single lever steering control.
A ground maintenance vehicle comprising:
- one or more front steering wheels;
- one or more rear drive wheels;
- a frame, the frame including one or more frame mounting arms on a reward section of the ground maintenance vehicle;
- a multi-axis articulating joint coupled to the frame;
- a front caster steering assembly coupled to the multi-axis articulating joint, wherein the front caster steering assembly and the multi-axis articulating joint simultaneously provide articulating and caster steering proportional to lateral movement from a steering control.
An articulating and caster system for use with a ground maintenance vehicle, the system comprising:
- a single lever steering assembly including a single lever steering control, wherein the single lever steering assembly is configured to couple to a frame of the vehicle;
- a multi-axis articulating joint configured to couple to the frame of the vehicle;
- a front caster steering assembly coupled to the multi-axis articulating joint;
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- wherein the front caster steering assembly and the multi-axis articulating joint simultaneously provide articulating and caster steering proportional to lateral movement from the single lever steering control.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.