Abstract: Improvements in road-protecting devices for tracked vehicles which are removably secureable to individual elements of the tracks; heavy-duty road-protecting devices removably secureable to individual segments or elements of endless tracks which permit the tracked vehicle to be actually worked under heavy load without losing the removably secured device; improved apparatus for tensioning and connecting such road-protecting devices on and in engagement with the individual segments or elements of endless tracks where such apparatus permits a limited knuckle or working action of the device during securement; such improved road-protecting devices formed or composed entirely of resilient, deformable yet shape-retaining rubber or plastic, which do not require therewith conventional base or cover plates or the usual bolts or ties associated therewith; such devices having non-extensible elements of rigid or non-rigid character fully received within the bodies thereof, such elements, although within the load thrust zon

Abstract: Improvements in road-protecting devices for tracked vehicles which are removably secureable to individual elements of the tracks; heavy-duty road-protecting devices removably secureable to individual elements of endless tracks which permit the vehicle to be actually worked under heavy load without losing the removably secured road-protecting devices; Improved tensioning and connecting elements for such road-protecting devices, which, in the portions thereof vulnerable to heavy load or impacts, are largely or entirely located out of the load thrust lines of use, whereby the said devices may be formed or composed entirely of resilient, deformable rubber or plastic without requiring therewith base or cover plates or bolts or ties associated therewith; nonextensible elements of rigid or non-rigid character adapted to be received fully within the bodies of resilient road-protective devices which are inside of or incorporated within the load thrust lines of use, yet which are of such character as not to be vulnerab

Abstract: Improvements in road-protecting devices for tracked vehicles removably securable to the individual elements of the tracks; road protecting devices having resilient tensioning devices associated therewith operable to strongly retain such on the tracks even when the track elements are aggregate loaded; improved tensioning and connecting means for road protecting devices which are largely located out of the load thrust lines of use whereby the devices may be entirely of resilient deformable rubber without basing or cover plates or bolts or ties associated therewith; high capacity tension devices of resilient character received within the bodies of resilient protective devices at least in part with track connecting means located out of the thrust line; improved track engaging means (connecting devices) which retain engagement on individual track elements despite temporary relief of tension thereon due to turning of the tracked vehicle.