Towed implement
AssigneeDeere & Company
InventorLionel Guiet
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InventorLionel Guiet
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A towed implement is provided with ground support wheels mounted to its chassis by trailing wheel support arms and respective suspensions including lift cylinders with which are associated damping devices that operate in such a way as to prevent damage to a respective cylinder from rebounding forces resulting when the suspension is being returned to its operating position by the release of energy stored in spring arrangements of the suspension after being loaded by an obstacle engaging the associated wheel. In one embodiment, the spring arrangement includes a damping spring located between an end of the associated cylinder and piston, and in another embodiment, the spring arrangement includes a gas pressure reservoir which, by virtue the operation of a reversing link in the suspension, is loaded both when the wheel is caused to move in a first direction by engaging an obstacle, and when the wheel is moved in the opposite direction by the airborne wheel once past the obstacle.
In a towed implement having an undercarriage supported on wheel arrangements coupled to opposite sides of the undercarriage by a wheel support arm pivotally coupled in a trailing fashion to said undercarriage, and a suspension arrangement operatively coupled between said undercarriage and each wheel support arm, the suspension including an extensible and retractable powered actuator having a cylinder and a piston rod coupled to a piston received in said cylinder for movement between first and second ends of said cylinder, and a spring arrangement including a gas pressure reservoir operatively coupled to said first end of said cylinder for resiliently resisting movement of said piston in said cylinder toward said first end of said cylinder and storing energy when said cylinder is moved toward said first end in response to an impact force input caused by said wheel engaging an obstacle such as to cause said wheel to become airborne, the improvement comprising:
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