Rubber track and improved method and method for producing the track
AssigneeThe Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
InventorsAlbert James Yovichin, Richard Alan Thomas, Ronald Paul Homolak
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Abstract
A rubber track T has a plurality of guide lugs 50 arranged in two rows, one row being on each lateral edge. The guide lugs 50 of the first row are circumferentially offset from the guide lugs 50 of the second row. The track T is molded on an axially separating mold core D that is designed to form the radially inner guide lugs 50 without requiring a radially collapsible core.
Claims4
An endless elastic track having guide lugs on the inner circumference and rubber tread lugs on the outer circumference and a thin band continuously extending in the circumference direction, the thin band being circumference reinforced by substantially inextensible cords or bands, the track comprising;
- a plurality of spaced rubber guide lugs, each guide lug having an axially inner portion and an axially outer portion, the guide lugs being arranged in two rows, a first row of guide lugs adjacent a first lateral edge of the thin band and a second row of guide lugs, adjacent a second lateral edge of the thin band, the guide lugs of the first row being circumferentially offset relative to the guide lugs of the second row wherein the axially outer portions of the guide lugs are aligned with the first or second lateral edges of the thin band and are oriented perpendicular to the thin band.
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