Patents by Inventor Robert W. Przekwas

Robert W. Przekwas has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 7090229
    Abstract: An anti-darting ski for snowmobiles, the ski including a longitudinally extending runner with a central keel. A generally flat wear strip with two skags is attached to the bottom of the keel. The wear strip is contoured to match the bottom surface of the keel. The skags are laterally spaced beneath the wear strip such that their inside surfaces do not extend towards each other. The skags and wear strip may be mounted flush with the outside edges of the keel. The skags may also be located asymmetrically about a longitudinal center point of the ski. The dual skag system acts to minimize darting of the snowmobile in the snow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Edwin A. Monsrud, Robert W. Przekwas, Arlyn T. Saagge, Keith W. Peppel
  • Patent number: 5944134
    Abstract: A suspension system mountable to the chassis of a snowmobile and about which an endless track is carried. The suspension includes a slide frame for engagement with a lower portion of the endless track and one or more springs for urging the slide frame downwardly away from the chassis. The suspension system also includes a downwardly angled suspension arm having an upper end pivotally mounted to the snowmobile chassis. The lower end of the arm is pivotally connected to the slide frame so as to permit limited longitudinal movement of the lower end of the arm with respect to the slide frame. An adjustable limit is provided for adjustably limiting the degree of longitudinal movement of the lower end of the arm with respect to the slide frame to adjustably control the range of orientations of the slide frame with respect to the snowmobile chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.
    Inventors: Keith W. Peppel, Robert W. Przekwas, Edwin M. Monsrud, Richard H. Bates, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5692579
    Abstract: A suspension system mountable to the chassis of a snowmobile and about which an endless track is carried. The suspension includes a slide frame for engagement with a lower portion of the endless track and one or more springs for urging the slide frame downwardly away from the chassis. The suspension system also includes a downwardly angled suspension arm having an upper end pivotally mounted to the snowmobile chassis. The lower end of the arm is pivotally connected to the slide frame so as to permit limited longitudinal movement of the lower end of the arm with reset to the slide frame. An adjustable limit is provided for adjustably limiting the degree of longitudinal movement of the lower end of the arm with respect to the slide frame to adjustably control the range of orientations of the slide frame with respect to the snowmobile chassis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1997
    Assignee: Polaris Industries Partners L.P.
    Inventors: Keith W. Peppel, Robert W. Przekwas, Edwin M. Monsrud, Richard H. Bates, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5344168
    Abstract: A snowmobile ski comprising a longitudinally extending runner having a bottom surface, a generally flat elongate bar having a top and bottom surface, and a steering skag extending longitudinally of the runner on the bottom side of the bar. The flat bar is generally contoured to abut the bottom surface of the runner, and furthermore extends forwardly beyond the skag and laterally and longitudinally beyond the skag so that a skag track in the snow encountered by the ski and the skag track left by the skag in the snow will be at least partially filled in by the bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1994
    Assignee: Polaris Industries, L.P.
    Inventors: Alan S. Olson, Robert W. Przekwas