Kubota Corporation

Yukio Shimono

Hideaki Matsuyoshi

Yuji Tsutsui

Hideaki Mizota

Shigeru Miyuki

Takao Watanabe

An earth handling vehicle is proposed which is capable of traveling forwardly or rearwardly to accomplish digging and loading operations, said vehicle having a chassis supported for movement on the earth by a track mechanism. The vehicle is further provided with an engine, transmission, a gearshift lever and a main clutch and further includes a maneuvering apparatus comprising front and rearwardly disposed interconnected actuators associated with steering clutches and lever mechanisms for operation of the actuators. Also, included is a supplemental clutch actuator lever which includes a portion that is operably interconnected with at least one actuator lever.

Running travel maneuvering apparatus for an engineering work vehicle

Apparatus for loading and unloading a working machine to and from main equipment, comprising a pair of upper and lower supporting members disposed at main equipment, a pair of upper and lower fixtures disposed at the working machine so as to correspond to said pair of supporting members respectively, engagement projections and engagement hooks respectively disposed at said upper and lower supporting members, latch arms and fitting pins respectively disposed at said upper and lower fixtures, wedge means disposed between said upper supporting member and said upper fixture, and fixing means for fixing said wedge means, whereby the working machine may be readily and securely loaded to main equipment by wedging action of said wedge means, and may also be readily unloaded from main equipment.

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Sakai, Japan

Yukio Shimono