Undercarriage soil disbursement system
OwnerRonald Molgaard Christenseninventor
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Abstract
A soil disbursement system is provided. An undercarriage soil disbursement system for a heavy equipment vehicle including a vehicle body and an undercarriage including a track, comprising one or more conveyors configured to be mounted within the undercarriage for collecting debris from the tracks and discharging the debris out a side of the undercarriage, a drive for actuating the one or more conveyors and one or more sweeping blades configured to be mounted on an underside of the vehicle body, whereby during rotation of the vehicle body the sweeping blades push debris from the track onto the one or more conveyors.
Claims17
An undercarriage soil disbursement system for a heavy equipment vehicle including a vehicle body and an undercarriage including a track, comprising:
- one or more conveyors configured to be mounted within said undercarriage for collecting debris from said tracks and discharging said debris out a side of said undercarriage;
- and
- a drive for actuating said one or more conveyors.
A heavy equipment vehicle including a vehicle body and an undercarriage including a track, comprising:
- one or more conveyors configured to be mounted within said undercarriage for collecting debris from said tracks and discharging said debris out a side of said undercarriage;
- and
- a drive for actuating said one or more conveyors.
A method of retrofitting an undercarriage soil disbursement system onto a heavy equipment vehicle, comprising:
- inserting one or more conveyors within an undercarriage onto a track frame of a heavy equipment vehicle wherein said one or more conveyors are orthogonal to a track of said heavy equipment vehicle;
- and
- connecting a drive to said one or more conveyors within said undercarriage onto said track frame.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.