Back to results
US 5,957,471 AGranted
Snow vehicle
OwnerBruce V. Weeksinventor
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A snow vehicle has a hull with a plurality of longitudinally extending bottom sliding surfaces adapted to independently contact the ground and each incorporating a control element to cause the vehicle to be steered as it is rotated about a longitudinal axis. The snow vehicle has an operator platform hull which will accommodate an operator seated on the snow vehicle when the snow vehicle is utilized as a sled and which will accommodate the feet of a rider when the snow vehicle is operated as a snow board.
Claims5
A snow vehicle which comprises:
- a hull element (12) adapted to engage a ground surface, said hull element having a central longitudinally extending concave rib portion formed therein;
- a transversely dished top deck element (14) positioned above said hull element and having a rear end surface (88) and a front end surface (86), said top deck element being vertically spaced from a bottom wall of said hull element to form an interior chamber, a plurality of inverted cone-shaped members formed along lateral portions of the bottom surface of said top deck element and extending downwardly therefrom, at least a portion of an uppermost surface of said concave rib portion being in engagement with the bottom surface of said top deck element, and lowermost surfaces of said cone-shaped members being in engagement with the bottom wall of said hull element for maintaining a vertical spacing between said top deck element and said bottom wall of said hull element;
- and
- a first laterally extending wall member (110) which is positioned intermediate said rear end surface and said front end surface (88, 86) and which co-operates with said rear end surface (88) to define an operator seat area, said first laterally extending wall member having a horizontally-curved vertical surface (114) which faces said front end surface (86) and an opposing inclined planar surface (116) which faces said rear end surface (88).
1 more element
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.