Traction device
AssigneeBurns Bros., Inc.
InventorLarry C. Clark
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Abstract
A traction device for a dual wheel set. The traction device includes side-members and cross-members, the side-members fitted to the inner side of an inside wheel and the outer side of an outside wheel. A cinch line extended around the dual wheel set at the juncture between the wheels and provided with engaging ends configured to draw the ends together in a cinching action to draw the cross-members into the juncture and thereby tighten the traction device on the dual wheel set.
Claims8
A traction device for a dual wheel set comprising:
- a pair of side-members to be applied at the inner and outer sides of a dual wheel set including side-by-side tires each having a peripheral tread for road engagement and defining a juncture therebetween, and a plurality of cross-members extended between the side-members and positioned at spaced locations around the periphery of the side-by-side tires and across the defined juncture;
- a cinch line extended in parallel relation to the side members at the center of said cross-members and circumscribing the defined juncture with the traction device mounted on said dual wheel set, said cinch line having cooperatively configured end portions, one end being a receiving end and the other end having a length slidably insertable through the receiving end for shortening of the cinch line and drawing of the cross-members inwardly toward the juncture for tightening of the traction device on to the dual wheel set.
A process of mounting a flexible traction device to a dual wheel set which defines a juncture therebetween that comprises;
- wrapping the flexible traction device around the tread of a dual wheel set with cross-members extended across the juncture;
- providing a cinch line that surrounds the juncture and is slidably connected to the cross-members where the cross-members extend across said juncture;
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- shortening the effective length of the cinch line by a cinching procedure to draw the cross-members into the juncture and thereby tightening the traction device on the dual wheel set.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.