Abstract: A construction for a crane carbody and lower axle construction which permits use of either fixed or adjustable length axles with common tread members and carbodies, each of the tread members having sockets and a pair of adjustable length axles, each axle having a pair of side by side hydraulic rams, defining an offset therebetween connected to axle beams engageable with and secured to said sockets. A pair of fixed length axles, each having beam ends which are out of alignment by an amount equal to said offset so that the fixed and adjustable length axles are interchangeable.

Abstract: A relief valve which maintains generally constant pressure in a fluid system for a wide range of flow rates through the system. When the valve opens as the pressure in the system exceeds a predetermined value, the flow about the valve plug is allowed to impinge on itself adjacent to the bottom surface of the plug to create a stagnation pressure on the plug which maintains generally constant liquid pressure within the valve for different plug settings even though the spring force on the plug increases as the flow increases and the plug is lifted further from its seat.

Abstract: A separator including a vibratory surface having a transverse slot and a plate positioned within the slot to form a grading gap. The plate is mounted independent of said surface so that articles conveyed by said surface are decelerated before reaching the grading gap and the downstream edge of the slot has a lip inclined downward at the angle of vibration of the vibratory surface.

Abstract: Crawler tractor adapted for stepless hydromechanical or electromechanical steering by driving. The tractor, in which opposite axles have interposed solid axle steering drive means, is steered by means of clutches disposed one between the drive means and each axle for primary mechanical drive, and a secondary variable ratio hydrostatic bidirectional drive interconnecting the axles.

Abstract: A multi functioning hydraulic transmission control circuit including interacting valve mechanism parts which, in response to a shift being called for in a clutch-cylinder-controlled multi-speed transmission, inaugurate a fill pressure flow to the clutch cylinders concerned, prior to the subsequent fluid pressure rise effected therein; thereafter, upon completion of the fill, the parts modulate pressure rise of the hydraulic clutch fluid from and at approximately actual clutch fill pressure up to, and remaining at, the final pressure of engagement.

Abstract: An articulated tractor that has its front and rear sections pivotally connected along the tractor's axis of articulation. The lead surface of the rear section and the trailing surface of the front section form an articulation space which is in close proximity to the articulation axis. To improve this arrangement, a cover is provided which substantially encompasses the articulation space with an enclosure. The enclosure incorporates at least two flexible bellows, which are opaque between their forward, rearward, top and bottom edges. The enclosure also includes four bands, a plurality of elements rigidly securing one of the bands to each of the forward and rearward edges of the bellows, and a plurality of members rigidly secured to the bands. The cover also utilizes a support to pivotally support the enclosure. This support is rigidly secured to either the front or the rear section of the tractor.

Abstract: A fuel tank arrangement for a tractor which stores its fuel in an auxiliary tank and a main tank that are spaced apart in the tractor. The tractor's engine receives its supply of fuel from a fuel pump after it has passed through a primary fuel filter. The fuel tank arrangement incorporates a first line fluidly connecting the main tank to the fuel pump. The arrangement also utilizes a main vent to connect the forwardmost portion of the upper section of the main tank to the atmosphere, and an auxiliary vent to connect the rearwardmost portion of the upper section of the auxiliary tank to the atmosphere. The next element of the arrangement is a supply system which requires all of the fuel to pass through the main tank to reach the fuel pump. The supply system fluidly connects the bottom section of the auxiliary tank with the forwardmost portion of the top section of the main tank through a second line.

Abstract: Booster providing both hydraulic feed-back and hydraulic feel-back in a two-stage operation in which we boost-brake a vehicle. Concentric, nesting, inner and outer control parts include, as the sliding outer part, a brake-pedal-connected input signal spool or sleeve for developing a desired signal pressure varying linearly along the length of, and therefore according to the sliding position of, the sleeve; the inner part constitutes a captive, telescoping metering spool with its ends in corresponding ends of the spool sleeve.

Abstract: A sectionalized panel of metal for guarding exposed windows on vehicle cabs and passenger compartments to protect from vandalism such as stone throwing. It serves on the outside as a stone-shield or night guard particularly for tractor cab windshields and is comprised of overlapping, interlockable, metal cladding plate sections which resemble a closed louver when installed and which are readily detachable and are hung below the windshield on the outside of the tractor cab when stored.

Abstract: The improvement of a hood of a tractor that has a filler neck passing through a neck aperture in the top surface of the hood. The neck aperture is transversely offset from the tractor's centerline. The improvement includes a downwardly projecting trough in the hood's top surface. The bottom of the trough is a major depression that is connected at four brake lines to the top surface by inner, outer, fore and aft sides. The major depression incorporates a pair of run-off apertures, with each run off aperture being adjacent one of the fore or aft sides. The neck aperture is located in the inner side of the trough, while the outer side of the trough contains a grip aperture. The improvement also includes a seal which resiliently and sealably connects the filler neck and the inner side of the trough. The improvement further includes a downwardly projecting hand grip that is sealably secured to the outer side of the trough in the grip aperture.

Abstract: In a tractor having a hood and a frame with a latch to establish a closed position of the hood on the frame, the present invention includes a frame track and a hood track secured to the frame and hood respectively, a pair of hood guides secured to the hood and movable in the frame track, a pair of frame guides secured to the frame and movable in the hood track and a mechanism for automatically rigidly connecting the hood to the frame in the closed position.

Abstract: Disc brake rotors on driven axles are resurfaced without being removed from host axles by replacing the relatively non-abrasive service brake pads with abrasive grinding pads. Grinding pads are urged into contact with the rotor being resurfaced utilizing the service brake piston. The rotor to be resurfaced is driven by the vehicle drive train after the vehicle has been raised to prevent wheel contact with the ground.

Abstract: A control for a spring-apply, pressure release brake system having a pilot signal-generating valve and a slave brake valve interconnected by a pilot signal line. Hydraulic pressure is directed to both the pilot valve and the slave valve. Manual stroking of the pilot valve modulates the pressure to the signal line. A spool within the slave valve senses both the signal pressure and the brake pressure and moves to an equilibrium position to equalize the signal and brake pressures.

Abstract: A boom arm of a boom assembly is formed of a pair of side walls integrated into a box boom structure where the top and bottom plates are roll formed with transition edges providing a weld bed for welds attaching the side walls to the top and bottom plates. The particular cross sections of the top and bottom plates provide a weld blow-through preventing barrier and also dimensional guidance and tolerance control during assembly of the boom arm.

Abstract: A serviceable pivot pin assembly having a pin with a lubricant reservoir rotatably mounted on bearings and releasably secured to both a thrust ring and to bucket brackets through an end plate.

Abstract: For inclusion as spacer between the confronting faces of first and second axially spaced apart members mounted for limited angulation about a common axis, the first member having a seal recess formed in one face, the second member having an end face opposite the seal recess, the improvement of: a laminated torsielastic thrust bushing consolidated in the recess as a one-piece part therein, with its nonmetallic laminae so uniformly thin that the part in the axial direction is a substantially incompressible composite piece.

Abstract: An over-center latch mechanism having a spring loaded link including a projecting rod. The rod having an "S" shaped bend on its free end which permits insertion and removal of said bend from an elongate slot only by actuation of the lever in the over-center mechanism.

Abstract: An electrical vehicle is propelled by a constant speed motor receiving current from a storage battery. An alternator, driven by the vehicle power train through a differential while the vehicle is in motion, is associated with the drive train such that it controls the velocity of the vehicle. Dynamic braking through increasing field current of the alternator is provided. The alternator is used to recharge the storage battery during periods of less than maximum vehicle velocity and also during deceleration of the vehicle.

Abstract: A grouser retainer that is positioned between a belt and a tire carcass provides an anchor for attaching one outboard end of a grouser to a tracked tire assembly. A pair of grouser retainers, one at each edge of the track or belt, are used to anchor each grouser as each grouser retainer is less than the full width of the tire tread.

Abstract: Device for stabilizing the lower links of a three-point hitch conventionally used on farm tractors having a sway bar rotatable connected to the tractor axle by a first pin with its axis paralled to the longitudinal axis of the axle. The other end of the sway bar is connected to one of the lower links by a second pin encased in a rubber metal element and oriented with its axis transverse to the first pin axis.