초록 ▼

A skid-steer vehicle has a housing defining a driver\s compartment and a loader arm that permits the driver to enter and leave the vehicle through left and right side access openings. The arm is constructed to eliminate the hazardous condition of entering from the front of the vehicle or from a side

A skid-steer vehicle has a housing defining a driver\s compartment and a loader arm that permits the driver to enter and leave the vehicle through left and right side access openings. The arm is constructed to eliminate the hazardous condition of entering from the front of the vehicle or from a side where the loader arm crosses the access space. The housing includes first and second spaced apart support frames. Each support frame includes a forward and a rearward upwardly extending member joined at an upper portion by a connecting member. The forward, rearward and connecting members, define a side access opening to the driver\s compartment. The loader arm has a rearward portion which is pivotally attached to the rearward members of the support frames and a forward portion and a middle portion connecting the forward and rearward portions such that when the loader arm is either in an up position or a down position, the loader arm does not extend into the access openings.

대표청구항 ▼

A skid-steer vehicle comprising: a body having a right and a left side and a front and a rear pair of ground-engaging wheels with two of the wheels rotatably mounted along the left side and two of the wheels rotatably mounted along the right side; means for operating the wheels on the left side at a

A skid-steer vehicle comprising: a body having a right and a left side and a front and a rear pair of ground-engaging wheels with two of the wheels rotatably mounted along the left side and two of the wheels rotatably mounted along the right side; means for operating the wheels on the left side at a different speed than the wheels on the right side to create a skid-steering movement; a housing including first and second spaced apart support members each support member having a forward and a rearward upwardly extending member joined to each other at an upper end portion by a connecting member such that the housing defines a driver\s compartment and the first and second support members defining first and second side access openings with the driver\s compartment being located substantially between the front and rear wheels; a loader arm having a downwardly extending rearward portion, a forward portion and a middle portion, the rearward portion being pivotally attached to the rearward member of the support member rearward of the access openings at an upper portion of the rearward member and wherein the loader arm, when either in an up position or a down position, does not extend into the access openings; hydraulic cylinder means for raising and lowering the loader arm and wherein the hydraulic cylinder means is pivotally attached to the body at a position forward of the access opening at one end and attached to the loader arm at another end such that when the loader arm is either in the up or the down position, the hydraulic cylinder means does not interfere with the access openings; and wherein the first and second spaced-apart support members and the connecting member of the housing define an arched upper portion of the access opening and the rearward portion, forward portion, and middle portion of the loader arm are in general alignment with the arched portion of the housing when the loader arm is in the down position.