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Steering apparatus for a reversible vehicle of the type adapted to travel on a guideway having at least one guide means extending parallel to the desired course of the vehicle, and wherein the vehicle includes front and rear guideaxle means adapted to follow the guide means together with front and r

Steering apparatus for a reversible vehicle of the type adapted to travel on a guideway having at least one guide means extending parallel to the desired course of the vehicle, and wherein the vehicle includes front and rear guideaxle means adapted to follow the guide means together with front and rear wheel assemblies each having a pair of steerable wheels interconnected by tie rod means. The invention resides in the provision of a novel gear and linkage mechanism interconnecting respective wheel assemblies with the guideaxle means such that when the direction of movement of the vehicle is reversed, so also is the direction of rotation of the wheels about vertical axes in response to movement of the guideaxle means in one direction or the other.

대표청구항 ▼

In steering apparatus for a vehicle adapted to travel on a guideway having at least one guide means extending parallel to the desired course of the vehicle and wherein the vehicle includes front and rear guideaxle means adapted to follow the guide means together with front and rear wheel assemblies

In steering apparatus for a vehicle adapted to travel on a guideway having at least one guide means extending parallel to the desired course of the vehicle and wherein the vehicle includes front and rear guideaxle means adapted to follow the guide means together with front and rear wheel assemblies each having a pair of steerable wheels interconnected by tie rod means; the improvement in said steering apparatus of sense reversing mechanisms interconnecting the wheel assemblies with said front and rear guideaxle means respectively and adapted to steer said wheel assemblies in opposite senses in response to movement of the guideaxle means depending upon the direction of movement of the vehicle, said sense reversing mechanisms each comprising: a steering arm having one end connected to an associated guideaxle means, a control arm having one end connected to an associated one of said tie rod means, the opposite ends of said steering and control arms being journaled within a gearcase, gear means within said gearcase for interconnecting said opposite ends of the steering and control arms, and means for shifting said gear means such that in one position of the gear means clockwise rotation of the control arm will cause clockwise rotation of the steering arm while in the other position of the gear means clockwise rotation of the steering arm will cause counterclockwise rotation of said control arm.