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Drive system, controlling braking system therefor, and safety lock controlling both

US4310078A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 1, 1980
Grant dateJan 12, 1982
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Expiry dateMay 1, 2000

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB62D11/183
  • WIPO fieldMechanical elements
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Hydrostatic tractor's drive and braking system, particularly one controlled, first, by a tractor safety lock lever which, when put "on," both neutralizes the engine-driven, variable ratio hydrostatic system for positively preventing drive and also sets the brakes for simultaneously positively preventing rolling and, second, by a two-stage brake pedal which is overcontrolled by the safety lock lever whenever the lever is "on" and which operates initially to intensify engine braking by increasing the hydraulically fixed ratio of the hydrostatic drive and its rate of dynamic dissipation of power, and which operates finally to neutralize drive and set brakes in an overlapping sort of way with the function of the safety lock lever and exactly the same as the safety lock lever does whenever "on."

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