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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2008
Applicants:
Brandon Kisse, Kindred, ND (US);
Robert Waletzko, Lisbon, ND (US);
Mark Bares, West Fargo, ND (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Clark Equipment Company, West Fargo, ND (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 55/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A track driven vehicle has an undercarriage transmission assembly that has a central transmission housing forming a one piece all welded housing. The central transmission housing has upright side wall portions with multiple layers of plates or walls in a sandwich construction on which drive motors are mounted. The drive motors are on the interior of the transmission housing, with track driven sprocket assemblies on the exterior of the side walls. Track mounting pods or frames are welded to the exterior of the side walls of the transmission housing.