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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 1985
Filed:
Jan. 25, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Mannesmann Aktiengesellschaft, Dusseldorf, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
105164 ; 1052 / ; 1051 / ; 105180 ; 105168 ; 266165 ; 266143 ;
Abstract
A vehicle for transporting heavy loads on parallel tracks is disclosed. Two of the wheels of the vehicle are fixedly mounted to the vehicle frame, while the remaining wheels are mounted so that they can vertically adjust to deviations in the height of the rail track. In this manner, heavy loads can be transported on the rail tracks without any particular wheel becoming overloaded. In the preferred embodiment, the adjustable wheels are supported by bell crank levers which are themselves connected to one another by a parallelogram linkage arrangement.