Abstract: A wheel traction device may include, but is not limited to, a linkage configured to at least partially encircle a ground-engaging surface of a vehicle wheel; and an adjustment assembly coupled to the linkage, the adjustment assembly configured to apply a tension to the linkage. Further, a wheel traction device may include, but is not limited to, a linkage configured to at least partially encircle a ground-engaging surface of a vehicle wheel; and a traction segment configured to be retained against the ground-engaging surface of the vehicle wheel by the linkage.

Abstract: A customizable tire chain including U-shaped members, grouser bars, and connecting segments. The U-shaped members each have a first leg, second leg, and transverse portion that extends between the first and second legs. The first and second legs are positioned to receive an outer edge portion of a tire therebetween. The connecting segments may connect the first legs, second legs, or transverse portions of the U-shaped members together. A first side of each of the grouser bars includes a traction structure. The second side of each of the grouser bars is removably coupled to the transverse portion of a corresponding one of the U-shaped members. In some embodiments, first and second ends of the grouser bars each extend laterally beyond the transverse portion of the corresponding U-shaped member. In such embodiments, the grouser bars may be coupled together at their first and second ends by the connecting segments.

Abstract: A tire chain and cable installation device to assist tire chains and cables installation on vehicles with tires or wheels. The tire chain and cable installation device is made of a resilient, flexible clamp portion having two gripping ends formed integrally with the clamp portion, and has a elongated indicator portion extending outwardly from the clamp portion.

Abstract: An anti-skid device especially adapted for trucks of the dual wheel type. In its preferred embodiment, the device is provided with a cleat(s) that protrudes two inches from the surface of the tire. The device is designed to be disposed across both wheels of dual-wheeled vehicles. A plate is provided at the end of the device, which plate abuts the sidewall of the inside tire and functions to prevent the device from moving. A unique chain, hook and bolt assembly is utilized to attach the device to the tire.

Abstract: Lugs for detachably mounting on the chain of a conventional tire mounted wheel of a vehicle. The lug being detachably mounted to a portion of the chain which extends laterally over the tread of the tire mounted wheel of a vehicle. The lugs being means for extracting a vehicle from a snow filled ditch or from ice, mud or sand.

Abstract: A traction enhanced wheeled irrigation system. The traction enhanced irrigation system includes at least one rotary powered tire and wheel upon which at least a portion of a traction enhanced irrigation system travels across the ground. A traction enhancer includes an arched body having a substantially concave interior surface establishing an interior space for accommodating a portion of the tire of the irrigation system and a substantially convex exterior surface that faces away from the tire of the irrigation system when installed thereupon. A paddle extends outwardly from the convex exterior surface for engaging the ground as the tire rotates thereacross for resisting slippage of the tire on the ground.

Abstract: A track device for mounting on a pneumatic tire fitted to the wheel of a vehicle to improve the buoyancy and traction of the vehicle over very soft terrain, the pneumatic tire including a tread surface across the width of the tire, a pair of side walls and an axis of rotation. The track device includes a plurality of bridge-like longitudinal and rigid traction blades having an inside surface made to rest on the tire across the width of the tread surface and a ground engaging outside surface, the traction blades being disposed on the tire in generally closely spaced-apart and parallel relationship to form an endless track. Each traction blade includes an intermediate bridge-like portion made to conform to the general cross-sectional shape of the tire, essentially flat side portions outwardly projecting from either side of the intermediate portion and generally parallel to the axis of rotation of the tire.

Abstract: A tire chain which has a plurality of anti-sliding members, each of which is attached to a base plate and a pivot pin. Wing-shaped members are hingeably attached to the bases and the pivot pins are connected by chain links to form an endless linkage.

Abstract: An anti-skid device for ready application to a vehicle wheel, that is entirely installable from the outer or hub side of the wheel. A primary embodiment of my device comprises at least three curved cleats, each having an inner surface and an outer surface, and each also having an integral attachment flange having a deliberate bend therein. Each cleat is configured and designed to curve in a cantilever manner around the tread of the tire, and in a primary embodiment, the cleats are interconnected by a number of elongate connection rods. The elongate assembly so formed can be placed around a tire, to encompass substantially more than half of the periphery of the wheel when the cleats are arrayed in an approximately equally spaced relation in contact with the tread of the tire, with the inner surface of each cleat normally disposed in a stand-away relation to the tread of the tire.

Abstract: An improved support track assembly for both protecting and improving the flotation and mobility of the resilient wheels of a vehicle is disclosed herein that comprises both a manually operable retention assembly for fastening the track into an endless belt around the vehicle wheel, and a track storage reel that conveniently positions the track under the wheel and in alignment therewith prior to installation. The improved support track is formed from a plurality of track members that are pivotally interconnected by means of connector pins, and the retention assembly is formed from a retaining pin having a first end that is transversely insertable into a track member in a connector-pin capturing position, and a second pin formed from a resilient loop of spring steel. When the retaining pin is inserted into a pin-capturing position, the terminus of the loop is resiliently biased in a latching position.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved structure of an automobile tire auxiliary device, especially relates to such a device capable of holding the tire to step up the friction force of the tire through a recess and an adjustable lug on the claw plates so that the automobile can pass through the land of snow, sand, mud and swamp or upward slope by virtue of poking the sand and earth.

Abstract: A traction device for mounting on pneumatic tire to assist in extricating a motor vehicle from snow, ice or mud is disclosed. The traction device, generally U-shaped in cross section, is provided with a wide base having an upwardly-curving segment which results in greater gripping action when the device is mounted on a tire.

Abstract: An endless track is provided in which the individual bottom plates are joined into a continuous track by tie bolts in the form of elongated chain links which are molded into the tracks with their arched ends projecting from the ends of the bottom plates, and rings formed of individual arches which capture adjacent arched ends of the links to form a continuous loop of bottom plates. The bottom plates are provided with a central profile ridge formed integrally with the plate to be engaged by rubber-tired wheels of a vehicle using the track to increase the traction between the tires and the plates.

Abstract: A traction device for use in extracting mired dual wheeled vehicles from a mired condition comprising a block assembly having a plurality of tower members for attachment to and between the wheels of the mired vehicle and a plate assembly for operative engagement by a rotating block assembly to move the mired vehicle to a freed location. The tower assemblies can be quickly dismantled to a transportable size, and readily assembled and installed for needed operation.

Abstract: A lightweight device for obtaining improved performance of rubber tired vehicles. The arrangement has high-strength, thin-gauged traction intensifying means secured to the driving member for a tire, having a smooth or shallow tread, providing improved drawbar performance in fields when said traction intensifying means are engaged and improved traction and riding characteristics on hard grounds and pavements when said traction intensifying means are disengaged; and includes actuating means for rapid and convenient conversion between "steel-drive" for fields and "rubber-drive" for hard surfaces, and vice versa.

Abstract: A traction element for a traction chain for a wheel of a vehicle, especially a pneumatic tire wheel, has a flat oval configuration and is formed in one piece from a die forged steel with four eyes at corners of an imaginary rectangle along the sides of which transverse ribs and ribs parallel to the direction of travel are provided. The body is in the form of a ring extending substantially the full width of the tire.

Abstract: Simplified means for connecting skidder rings to the tag chains that hold the skidder rings in spaced positions around a tractor wheel. Each skidder ring has four hooks spaced approximately 90.degree. apart, two at each side, of novel construction. Each hook is so shaped as to permit easy attachment thereto of the end link of a tag chain but which will positively preclude disconnection of the link from the hook when the parts are in operating position on the wheel.

Abstract: A lightweight device for obtaining improved traction efficiency of rubber tired vehicles without adding ballast weight. The device has high-strength, thin-gauged traction intensifying means secured to a driving tire, providing higher drawbar pull at higher rate of travel speed by utilizing stronger sub-surface soil and extended tire life; and includes actuating means, for engaging and disengaging the traction enhancing means for convenient conversion to allow travel on pavement.

Abstract: An improved track belt assembly wherein the anchor plates have fastening means which are disposed axially inward of the reinforcing belt structure.

Abstract: An antiskid device and its fittings for a tire including a side chain, a cross chain, a connector, an end link, a hook and a stopper. The side chain includes a side link formed as a two-piece link having two links, one a long link and the other a short link, which are integral with each other. The stopper is angled in transverse cross section and formed with a transverse web of a width large enough to contact a lower portion of the end link and a groove of a width large enough to receive the hook. The cross chain is formed as a cross link of bar material, and the connector is in the form of a link on either end and in the form of a rod in its intermediate portion so that the connector is connected at one end to the cross link and at the other end to the side link.

Abstract: A tire is provided with an element which cleans it during driving and is formed as a rigid substantially closed member fitted in a groove of the tire and movable radially outwardly during rotation of the tire to dislodge soil, snow etc. It may be provided with transverse portions and ground-engaging projections.

Abstract: A wheeled vehicle flotation augmentation device is disclosed herein having at least elongated segments releasably connected together in a continuous and endless series of track block guides so as to form a circular tread about the periphery of a single wheel of the vehicle. The plurality of track block guides in the series are hingably coupled together and the adjacent ends of each segment of track block guides are joined by releasable pins. Each track block guide includes a flat base having outwardly projecting and spaced apart side horns which are separated by the wheel of the vehicle. The terminating tips of the side horns are rounded to aid in projecting a load bearing track block beyond full tire contact and so provide increased ground contact length or aspect ratio in soft-soil or snow environments.

Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-skid device for vehicle wheels, comprising a plurality of U-shaped elements radially mounted on the wheel tire, and two series of connecting levers pivoted on each arm of said U-shaped elements. In order to provide an automatic mounting operation of the device on a vehicle wheel by simply advancing the wheel on the device, each arm of each of the U-shaped elements carries retaining means for said levers, which removably retain the U-shaped elements and levers in a relative position wherein each of said U-shaped elements forms a pre-set angle with the levers adjacent to the same, said angle corresponding to that formed when the device is mounted on the tire.

Abstract: A tire traction device including a cylindrical cup member for attachment on a rim-securing nut of a vehicle wheel by a set screw, an elongated threaded shank extending coaxially with the cup member, an elongated link having an elongated slot for receiving the elongated shank, nuts threadably mounted on the elongated shank on opposite sides of the elongated link for tightening the elongated link in an axial position on the shank wherein the elongated link both extends perpendicularly to the shank and rests against the side of a tire, and a traction member extending perpendicularly from the end of the elongated link and having a first side for gripping engagement with the tread of the tire and an opposite side for gripping engagement with the ground.

Abstract: An improved traction device for assisting vehicles when stuck in sand, snow, bog, or the like, incorporates a rigid plate having opposed upper and lower gripping ribs and an appended chain structure having transverse angle iron pieces spaced lengthwise thereof.

Abstract: An anti-skid tire chain comprising a pair of parallel side chains, a series of traction rings extending medially between the side chains, and a network of connector chains interconnecting the traction rings with the side chains and with one another is characterized in that the connector chains are interconnected in threes by triradial connector plates. Each triradial connector plate consists of three plate elements welded together, each plate element providing a pair of opposite end portions, subtending an angle of 120.degree. to one another and an arcuate mid-portion defining a convex cylindrical surface, the plate elements being mutually welded together at the convex surfaces thereby defining a symmetrical triradial configuration providing three radially extending pairs of parallel arms, each pair of arms defining a clevis for receiving an end link of a respective connector chain, and including a removable clevis pin for retaining the end link.

Abstract: A vehicle tire with tractive elements for positive engagement with the ground surface is disclosed. The tire carcass has a tread including raised features. Means for positively linking tractive elements positioned radially outwardly of the tread to the raised features of the tread are provided in the form of a flexible but substantially inextensible belt positioned radially outwardly of the tread, and retainer elements positioned radially inwardly of the belt, the tractive elements being positioned radially outwardly of the belt and being releasably attached to the retainer elements for clamping the belt tightly therebetween. Inflation pressure within the carcass expands its crown region to maintain the belt in a taut condition. The retainer elements are sectionally constructed to facilitate assembly and disassembly of the tire.

Abstract: A tire protector device with a covering, especially formed by plates, which exhibits at its ends next to the outside of the tire connector parts for fastening a chain net which covers the side wall of the tire. The edge of said chain net remote from the connector parts being connected to a holding strand via connection parts which are formed of tension devices which have at least one tension spring forming a store of tensional force and/or which exhibits each a connector member carried movably on the holding strand.

Abstract: A vehicle tire with tractive elements for positive engagement with the ground surface is disclosed. The tire carcass has a tread including circumferentially spaced raised features. At least one flexible but substantially inextensible belt is positioned radially outwardly of the tread, and a respective plurality of retainer elements are positioned radially inwardly of the belt, the tractive elements being positioned radially outwardly of the belt and being releasably attached to the associated retainer elements for clamping the belt tightly therebetween. Inflation pressure within the carcass expands its crown region to maintain the belt in a taut condition, and at least one element of each set of associated tractive and retainer elements is positively mechanically linked to at least one of the raised features of the tread to limit circumferential displacement of the tractive elements relative to the tread.

Abstract: Traction is provided for automotive vehicles stuck in snow, mud, and the like by a device applied over the outer face of the slipping driven vehicle wheel and having J-shaped traction fingers draped over the tire of the wheel and fixedly clamped on the tire by merely swinging a lever. The device has a mounting plate for overlying the conventional wheel disk or hubcap, three J-shaped fingers pivoted to the center of the plate and radially guided in 120.degree. spaced apart relation at the periphery of the plate with the cups of the fingers receiving the tire and presenting outer tread surfaces which will bite into the slippery road bed. One of the fingers is retracted on its pivot by a lever or handle effective to clamp all three of the fingers on the tire.

Abstract: Means for improving the traction of wheeled equipment used in the logging industry comprising an improved skidder ring with clevises to which the connecting tag chains are fastened by a pin preferably secured in place by a spot of welding material. When a tag chain breaks and must be replaced, the pin is severed by a torch permitting the remaining two pin parts to be removed from the clevis. The end link of the replacement or repaired tag chain is secured by a new pin placed in the clevis. A spot of welding material is applied to the pin to hold it in place.

Abstract: There is disclosed in the present application a traction device adapted to being mounted on a driving wheel tire of a vehicle for obtaining greater traction on ice or snow although the device may also be useful in certain types of mud. The device comprises four spring arms each including a textured traction portion positioned across the face of the tire tread. The device is quickly mounted over the tire by collapsing and spreading apart the tread portions to permit bringing the device into engagement with the tire from a radial direction. The four arms in two pairs are then disposed at right angles to each other and are thereafter simultaneously tightened into embracing generally equally spaced relationship with the tire by turning a spring loaded crank.

Abstract: A traction device for vehicle wheels is provided comprising spaced traction plates having traction bars extending from both major surfaces thereof, the plates being interconnected by U-shaped tire side wall gripping elements, the device being expandable to span tires of different widths and including a spring biased shoe carried by the bight portion of one of the U-shaped gripping elements adapted to more tightly grip the tires as forces tending to pull the device from the tire are applied, but which shoe is easily manually released to remove the device from a tire.

Abstract: A skid protecting device for use in combination with vehicle tires, according to which in distribution over the tire circumference there are provided holders with a plurality of gripping profiles which are arranged transverse to and in covering engagement with gripping profiles which are adapted by way of tensioning members to be connected to the outsides of the holder. The arrangement comprises at least one chain net of interengaging chain links which is located on one lateral surface of the tire. This at least one chain net has one rim portion provided with serially arranged connecting links arranged in spaced relationship to each other for connection to the holders, whereas an oppositely located other rim portion is provided with a tensioning or tightening strand extending along the last mentioned other rim portion.

Abstract: An improved gripping member for gripping shoes used on vehicle wheels is disclosed. The cross sectional shape of the gripping member is formed as a U throughout its length whereby substantially improved traction and a substantially stronger gripping member are obtained. In a preferred embodiment, the side legs of the U-shaped gripping member are made wavy in the area which contacts the ground.

Abstract: A bike traction attachment comprised of two identical side bands, between the bands are cleats secured at equal intervals around the bands' circumferences. Two hook-eyelet assemblies are incorporated as well, whereby, the side bands' ends can be secured together. And thereby, the traction attachment can be secured onto a tire of a bike.