Articulated tractor loader with side rear view mirrors
AssigneeDresser Industries, Inc.
InventorThomas W. Kerkman
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Abstract
An articulated tractor loader vehicle which has side rear view convex mirrors mounted to the back of headlight housings for providing a panoramic rear view of the lateral sides of the tractor loader vehicle rearwardly of the front rubber tired wheels and rearwardly of the rear rubber tired wheels.
Claims4
In an articulated tractor loader comprising a front frame section supported on front rubber tired wheels and supporting an operator's cab, a rear frame section hingedly connected to the front frame section and supported on rear rubber tired wheels and supporting a power plant, said front wheels and said rear wheels being disposed outboard of their respective frame sections, a pair of right and left boom arms mounted on transverse pivots on opposite sides of the front frame section forwardly of the operator's cab, a pair of right and left support standards fixedly mounted to the sides of the front frame section and supporting a pair of right and left headlight housings forwardly of the cab and above the boom arm pivots outboard of the front frame section, and a pair of right and left side rear view convex mirrors mounted to the headlight housings providing a panoramic rearward and downward view looking from the operator's cab, said view including at least the sides of the tractor loader vehicle rearwardly of the front wheels, the ground area between said front and rear wheels, and a ground area rearwardly of the rear wheels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.