Abstract: The present invention relates to a wheelbarrow with an improved wheel assembly. The wheelbarrow includes brackets which are fixedly positioned with respect to the wheelbarrow adjacent to the front end thereof. An axle is formed of a rod with external threads, the axle having a center and opposed ends. Brackets are secured to the front legs adjacent to their lower extents with apertures for receiving the axle adjacent to its center. Cylindrical wheels are secured to the axle adjacent to the ends with tires thereon for rotation. Two internal bracket nuts are threadedly secured to the axle on opposite sides of the center in contact with the brackets at their internal faces. Two external wheel nuts are threadedly secured to the axle adjacent to their ends in contact with the wheels at their external faces. Intermediate nuts between the brackets and wheels are in contact with the external faces of the brackets and the internal faces of the wheels.

Abstract: An all-terrain baby stroller using an axle assembly that permits the stroller frame to be collapsible. The axle assembly has a coupler at each end of a tubular axle. Each coupler assembly employs two coupler members, one connected to an upright frame member and the tubular axle, and the other one connected to a horizontal frame member. The couplers are rotatably connected to each other by a hub member. A portion of one coupler rotatably fits within the other coupler, and the hub member extends coaxially through both couplers and allows the one coupler to rotate about it. A stub axle carrying one of the rear wheels is removably received within the hub member. A locking pin is inserted into a hole formed through the stub axle, hub member, an inward one of the couplers, and the tubular axle to releasably retain the stub axle in place. A pair of upper frame members is pivotally connected to the upright frame members and removably connected to the horizontal frame members to permit folding of the frame.

Abstract: A materials handling vehicle or fork lift truck may be equipped with either cushion or pneumatic tires. When converting the vehicle from cushion to pneumatic tires, the front axle is moved downward and the mast assembly is moved forward to provide adequate clearance. The rear axle is also moved downward and backward. Changing configurations requires the addition of only one component; all of the other axle mounting hardware can be either repositioned or its orientation reversed in order to accommodate the change.

Abstract: A wheel assembly especially suitable for use on large heavy refuse carts. The wheel assembly includes an axis which has been heat treated and plated to provide a central core, an outer skin on the central core of substantially increased strength and hardness, and a chromium plating on the outer skin, and the associated hub of the wheel has been heat treated to provide an annular interior skin in journalling association with the axle having an increased hardness and strength as compared to the main body of the hub. The chrome plating on the axle has a hardness in excess of the hardness of the interior hardened skin of the wheel hub.

Abstract: A wheel compaction unit for use on the articulated arm of heavy excavation equipment comprises a frame mounted to the equipment arm, the frame including support arms mounting a hub and axle assembly including three independently rotatable bearing mounted hubs. At least one compaction wheel is mounted to each hub, and auxiliary compaction wheels including angled spokes and an offset periphery are provided for mounting to the outside hubs to increase the working width of the wheel compaction unit. The hubs and axle assembly is sealed with ground metal seals and end plates. The periphery of the compaction wheels include spaced-apart presentation supports having angled leading/trailing edges, the presentation supports each supporting a compaction foot integral with the wheel. A removable wear collar closely surrounds the compaction foot and receives the primary impact and abrasion during use of the compaction unit, the wear collars being readily replaceable.

Abstract: A wheel end assembly used with a tire pressure management system has a pressurized air passage formed in part by the annular clearance space formed between a drive shaft and a central bore in the tire mounting spindle of the end assembly.

Abstract: The forks of a bicycle receive an axle having threaded ends. A tube surrounds the axle and carries ball bearings on which a wheel housing is rotatable with a space between the tube and the housing. Specially shaped seals engage the wheel housing and the tube between the ball bearings to keep lubricant out of the space between the seals. A special lever lock on one end of the axle cooperates with a nut on the other end of the axle to draw together the parts engaged with the axle, the tube and the housing.

Abstract: A transport vehicle adapted to position a U-shaped shaped frame so that arms of the U-shaped frame are on either side of a load supported in a raised position. Lifting cylinders are mounted along each arm of the vehicle and are connected to an inwardly directed tine which is positioned beneath the raised load. Once the vehicle is positioned so that the arms straddle the load and the tines are beneath the load, the cylinders are actuated and the tines raise the load to a travelling position. A tailgate is pivotally connected at one end to one of said arms and is closed for transport of the load to thereby provide transverse structural support at a trailing end of the vehicle. Wheels are singularly mounted in longitudinal alignment along the arms of the frame. Each of the wheels is quickly removable from the frame.

Abstract: A bearing assembly particularly for the wheel of a motor vehicle wherein a wheel hub and a part of a universal joint are arranged in torque-transmitting engagement, the assembly including an inner race member formed by at least one of the wheel hub and the part of the universal joint in torque-transmitting engagement therewith and an outer race member adapted to be connected with the wheel carrier of the motor vehicle. First and second inner bearing tracks are formed in the inner race member and first and second outer bearing tracks are formed in the outer race member. A first and a second plurality of rolling elements are disposed in operative load-bearing engagement between the first inner and outer bearing tracks and the second inner and outer bearing tracks, respectively, and the outer race member is formed in two separate parts, one part having the first outer bearing track therein and the other part having the second outer bearing track therein.

Abstract: A bearing designed to fit on a vehicle suspension of the "McPherson" type connects the vehicle wheels to the respective shock absorbers. The bearing is formed by an inner ring, an outer ring, and rolling bodies inserted between the rings, which are both provided with respective integral flanges. One of these flanges is provided with a projecting arm integral with the same and having a recess, able to be connected to a ball pin of a rocker arm of the suspension.

Abstract: A vehicle axle-frame mounting has a vehicle frame portion having transversely aligned generally inverted U-shaped wells. A transverse axle includes a differential casing and tubular section extending laterally and opposite from the casing. A mounting member is formed on each tubular section to be received in a respective frame well to have a generally horizontally extending interface and in spaced-apart relationship to the sidewalls of the well. A plurality of cap screws are threadably received in the lower portion of each well's sidewall such that the head of corresponding cap screws capture the lower portion of a respective mounting member therebetween.

Abstract: A wheeled support structure for use in a vacuum cleaner or the like. The wheeled support structure includes a wheel mount on the body of the vacuum cleaner defining an outwardly opening recess having an inwardly facing lock surface. The wheel mount further defines a fixed annular bearing surface coaxially of the recess and spaced radially outwardly therefrom for journaling the wheeled support slidably concentrically mounted thereon. The wheel further includes a latch element extending inwardly through the recess and having turned latch shoulders arranged to be disposed inwardly of the lock surface for preventing axially outward removal of the latch element, thereby maintaining the wheel mounting surface slidably mounted on the bearing surface of the vacuum cleaner support wall.

Abstract: An axle having a shallow "U" shape is oriented beneath the vehicle so that side and bottom sections of the U-shape extend either forward or are angled slightly downward and connected to the chassis through trailing links of different lengths whereby the axle rotates during vertical movement of the road wheels. The axle is disposed in the vehicle so that as the axle moves vertically, the ends of the axle pivot up on either side of a tire housing while the center or inboard portion moves through a smaller distance into a clearance between the tire housing and a fuel tank.

Abstract: A wheel hub for a two-wheeled vehicle, such as a bicycle, includes a quick clamping device for securing the hub axle in the fork of a bicycle frame. The device includes a clamping unit at each end of the hub axle. Each clamping unit contains an adjusting nut screwed onto one end of the axle, a thrust ring inboard of the nut, and a pivotally movable clamping member with eccentric cams positioned between facing surfaces on the nut and thrust ring. By pivoting the clamping member the position of the cams is changed for displacing the clamping device from the release position to the locking position where the hub axle can be tightly clamped in the fork without any special shaping of the axle.

Abstract: A quick-release type hub for bicycles comprises a hub shell journalled on a stationary tubular axle through which extends a slidable spindle, at one end of which a cam lever is mounted co-axially rotatably with an actuating member which includes a clamping edge section and a releasing edge section; an elastically deformable spring washer interposed between the actuating member and a push member slidably mounted on the spindle, so that the push member is prevented from sliding axially outwardly as long as the clamping edge section is in contact with the spring washer; and the spindle being axially slidable only when the releasing edge section is in contact with the spring washer.

Abstract: In a wheel mounting arrangement which comprises a wheel-attachment spindle rotatably carried by roller bearings within a bearing hub and clamped thereto by a nut received on a threaded end of a spindle shaft, a locking device for preventing removal of the nut from the spindle shaft and consequent detachment of the spindle and spindle-attached wheel from the bearing hub and vehicle. The device comprises a locking snap ring received in a circumferential groove in the threaded spindle end so as to block removal of the nut. In accordance with a particular and critical feature of the invention, the groove and locking ring are axially spaced from the opposing surface of the nut in assembly and in normal operation so that the ring cooperates with the nut opposing surface to permit limited loosening of the nut.

Abstract: Juvenile toy vehicle with a braking arrangement including front and rear axles supporting front and rear wheels, respectively, a pipe frame having the front and rear axles mounted in the front and the rear ends thereof, respectively, a sprocket wheel having a crank shaft provided with a pair of pedals and positioned on the pipe frame, another sprocket wheel rigidly mounted on the rear axle and linked with the crank shaft sprocket wheel by the intermediary of an endless chain, and a steering wheel linked with the front axles to permit change of a running direction of the vehicle.One of the rear wheels is rigidly disposed on the rear axle for integral rotation with the rear axle sprocket wheel, while the other rear wheel is journaled rotatably on the rear axle. The rear axle and the crank shaft are rotatably supported between an opposed pair of complimentary bush halves which are surrounded and held together by a fixture rigidly secured on the pipe frame.

Abstract: An axle assembly having an axle tube, a transversely extending adapter plate adjacent an end of the tube, and a spindle projecting generally axially through the adapter plate. The adapter plate and spindle each have circumferentially spaced apart interdigitating fingers fixed thereto and each bearing on and extending generally radially across the end of the tube with the fingers of both the spindle and the adapter plate fixed to the tube by a weld which preferably extends circumferentially continuously around the outer periphery of the tube adjacent the end thereof.

Abstract: An axle housing defines extended portions which are positionable near and engageable with extensions defined by a bracket fixed relative to a vehicle frame. The respective extensions and extended portions are secured together by clamp structures interconnecting them.

Abstract: The invention disclosed relates to a new improved pivoting axle system especially useful for terrain vehicles.

Abstract: Steering spindle for a vehicle wheel, provided with at least one ball joint, characterized by that the spindle is made of pressed sheet metal and comprises a mainly flat portion adapted for fastening a ball joint, which ball joint comprises a fastening part provided with a corresponding mainly plate-shaped portion, the device comprising means for joining said portions.

Abstract: A wheel assembly comprises an axle housing secured to the frame of a vehicle, a spindle secured to the axle housing and a wheel rotatably mounted on the spindle. The axle housing and wheel spindle are secured together at radial flanges thereof by a plurality of circumferentially disposed bolts. A concavity is formed on the inner face of each of the flanges to impose compressive forces on radially inner portions thereof when the flanges are drawn and secured together by the bolts.

Abstract: An improved suspension unit for an overland vehicle of the type including a body-supporting frame and a wheel-supporting axle. The unit is characterized by a bracket adapted to be rigidly affixed to the frame of a selected vehicle, a rigid arm of a substantially angulated configuration, including a base segment and a distal segment, a knuckle joint for pivotally connecting the base segment of the arm to the bracket, a relief defined in the arm for receiving the axle of the vehicle in a captured relationship, and a pressurized air bag of a substantially constant height interposed between the bracket and the distal segment of the arm for continuously supporting the vehicle in a continuous air-ride configuration.

Abstract: The hub cap device includes a cylindrical housing mountable on the trailer wheel hub and having a spring loaded piston that is movable between defined inner and outer positions. As the hub is filled with grease under pressure through a grease fitting on the piston, the piston is moved to its outer position wherein excess grease is bled to the atmosphere. A manually actuated control means on the hub cap device is adjustable to provide for the spring load being applied to urge the piston to the inner position therefor, when the trailer is to be used at a launching site, and for the spring load being removed from the piston when the trailer is to be used for road travel.