EP3554930A1 - Crawler track, in particular rubber crawler track - Google Patents
Crawler track, in particular rubber crawler trackInfo
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- EP3554930A1 EP3554930A1 EP17793874.3A EP17793874A EP3554930A1 EP 3554930 A1 EP3554930 A1 EP 3554930A1 EP 17793874 A EP17793874 A EP 17793874A EP 3554930 A1 EP3554930 A1 EP 3554930A1
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- Prior art keywords
- stud
- crawler
- foot
- rubber
- rubber crawler
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Classifications
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
- B62D—MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS
- B62D55/00—Endless track vehicles
- B62D55/08—Endless track units; Parts thereof
- B62D55/18—Tracks
- B62D55/24—Tracks of continuously flexible type, e.g. rubber belts
- B62D55/244—Moulded in one piece, with either smooth surfaces or surfaces having projections, e.g. incorporating reinforcing elements
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B62—LAND VEHICLES FOR TRAVELLING OTHERWISE THAN ON RAILS
- B62D—MOTOR VEHICLES; TRAILERS
- B62D55/00—Endless track vehicles
- B62D55/08—Endless track units; Parts thereof
- B62D55/18—Tracks
- B62D55/26—Ground engaging parts or elements
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a crawler, in particular a rubber crawler, according to the preamble of patent claim 1.
- Caterpillars As drive mechanisms for land vehicles are u.a. Caterpillars known. These can be used not only in the military sector but also in agricultural vehicles and other vehicles for the movement in rough terrain. Caterpillars usually have on their inner side, preferably centrally, inwardly projecting tooth elements, by means of which the crawler can be detected and moved by a drive wheel or the like of the vehicle. On their outside caterpillars usually have a profiling in order to find better support on the ground. This profiling may be similar to e.g. a tractor tire, i. the profiling may e.g. Have bar-shaped radial projections which are arranged obliquely to the direction of the crawler on this.
- the inner tooth elements and the outer profiling elements are usually connected by a crawler body, which is closed endless.
- Caterpillars can be made of rubber and then called rubber crawler tracks. Caterpillar tracks can be closed endlessly or made open. You can have a tension member for the transmission of tensile forces, for example in the form of steel cables, which can be arranged several circumferentially in the direction. There may be transverse reinforcements, which are the forces in the width of the crawler can help transmit. The tension members and / or transverse reinforcements are usually enclosed in the crawler body, for example vulcanized.
- the inner teeth are formed as uncured rubber elements and inserted into the corresponding recesses of a cylindrical inner mold.
- the rest of the body of the rubber crawler is constructed separately from the same rubber unvulcanized and then placed on the inner mold.
- the inner mold and outer mold By compressing the inner mold and outer mold, the inner teeth are pressed from the inside to the body of the rubber crawler and formed on the outside of the rubber crawler, the outer mold segments by pressure. Then the vulcanization takes place within the press.
- the inner mold and the outer mold are segmented, wherein the segments are initially arranged circumferentially spaced from each other and are compressed in the context of vulcanization, so that they give a cylindrical closed shape.
- a manufacturing process for rubber crawler is known in the first unvulcanized mold elements, which are to form the inner teeth of the rubber crawler, in the corresponding recesses of a mandrel a Inner mold are introduced. Thereafter, an unvulcanized body of the rubber crawler with tension members is applied to the mold members for internal teeth and the radial outside of the mandrel. Further, unvulcanized moldings of the same rubber material which are to form the outer teeth of the rubber crawler are inserted in corresponding recesses of the outer mold. Subsequently, the inner mold and the outer mold are joined and the body of the rubber crawler with the mold elements for inner teeth and with the mold elements for outer teeth vulcanized. In this way, rubber crawler tracks can be easily and inexpensively manufactured with tension members, without resulting in the production of a displacement of the tension members. At least the displacement of the tension members can be reduced.
- the outwardly facing profiling or the external teeth which can also be referred to as studs
- the outsides of the outwardly facing profiling or the outer teeth, ie the studded body be exposed by the contact to the substrate a strong abrasion, so that here the highest possible abrasion resistance can be advantageous.
- the studs should usually have the best possible adhesion to the ground.
- the inner body, ie the stud feet, the outward profiling or the outer teeth are usually subjected to strong dynamic. Therefore, the lowest possible self-heating, a high dynamic strength and a good connection to the further inner layers of material can be advantageous at this point.
- An object of the present invention is a crawler, in particular a rubber crawler, of the type described above with a longer life of outward facing profiling or the outer teeth as previously known to provide.
- a crawler in particular a rubber crawler, of the type described above with a longer life of outward facing profiling or the outer teeth as previously known to provide.
- the present invention relates to a crawler, in particular a rubber crawler, with a chain body and with at least one outer Profiltechniks- element, preferably with a plurality of outer profiling elements, which is directed away from the chain body to the outside.
- the crawler belt according to the invention is characterized in that the outer
- Pro hypoxia has an outwardly directed lug body and a cleat foot which connects the lug body with the chain body, wherein the
- Studded body and the stud foot have different materials, preferably made of different materials.
- the above-described contradiction between the contrary demands on the stud body and on the stud foot can be remedied in that the materials can each be selected or designed such that they are designed as well as possible for the respective requirements.
- the life and / or the load capacity of caterpillar track can be improved.
- the present invention is particularly suitable for use in a manufacturing process for rubber crawler tracks according to DE 10 2015 205 071 A1. This is due to the fact that there unvulcanized form elements, which are to form the outer teeth of the rubber crawler, in corresponding recesses of the External form can be introduced. Therefore, for easy and inexpensive implementation of the present invention, first the material which is to form the lug body of the lug can be introduced into the outer mold. In addition, then the material which is to form the cleats of the stud, are introduced. Otherwise, the manufacturing process of DE 10 2015 205 071 AI remain unchanged.
- the blank of the stud may first be constructed of the stud body and the stud foot of the various materials and then inserted as a single piece in the outer mold. It is advantageous that in the manufacturing process for rubber crawler according to DE 10 2015 205 071 AI a comparatively small displacement of the tension members occurs. Thus, flow movements between the remaining material layers as well as between the stud body and the stud foot during vulcanization can be avoided comparatively well, so that the two different material regions of the stud body and stud foot can be comparatively reliably and reproducibly positioned and separated from one another. In this way it can be achieved that the properties of the two different materials of stud body and stud foot can also be arranged and used at the points where this is provided.
- the stud body comprises a material, preferably the stud body is made of a material which is more resistant to abrasion and / or can cause better adhesion and / or a better damping to the ground than the material of the stud foot.
- the material of the stud body may be more resistant to abrasion and / or cut than the material of the stud foot.
- the material of the stud body may alternatively or additionally provide better cushioning and / or better adhesion to the ground, e.g. to a street as the material of the stud foot have.
- materials of the lug body with such properties may preferably be natural rubber, a mixture of natural rubber and styrene-butadiene- Rubber or a mixture of natural rubber and isoprene rubber can be used.
- the stud foot has a material, preferably the stud foot is made of a material which has a lower self-heating and / or a higher dynamic strength and / or a better connection to the material of the chain body than the material of the stud body.
- the properties can be achieved at Stollenfuß, which are advantageous or necessary at this point.
- the material of the stud foot having such properties there may preferably be used natural rubber having hardness-increasing fillers such as e.g. Soot or silica can be used.
- the material of the cleat body and / or the material of the cleat foot comprises an elastomeric material, preferably the material of the cleat body and / or the material of the cleat foot is made of an elastomeric material.
- the outer profiling element may have properties of an elastomeric material, which may be advantageous for the applications of caterpillar tracks.
- a plurality of tension members preferably of steel cables, are embedded in the chain body. As a result, forces can be transmitted essentially in the transverse direction and / or in the longitudinal direction over the tension members. In particular, this allows tensile forces to be transmitted in the longitudinal direction of the crawler belt.
- the crawler in the circumferential direction ie in the direction of rotation, or in the longitudinal direction formed endlessly closed.
- the endless track can be made already closed endless or initially made open and then closed endless.
- Fig. 1 shows a schematic cross section through a crawler according to the invention in a manufacturing apparatus prior to vulcanization.
- FIG. 1 The description of FIG. 1 is made in Cartesian coordinates with a transverse direction Y and a vertical direction Z oriented perpendicular to the transverse direction Y, which can also be referred to as height Z. In each case perpendicular thereto, a longitudinal direction is aligned (not shown).
- a crawler 2 in the form of a rubber crawler 2 is produced in a device 1 for the production of crawler crawlers 2 according to DE 10 2015 205 071 A1.
- the production device 1 has an inner mold 10, an outer mold 11 and a plurality of stud shapes 12, which are designed and arranged as described in DE 10 2015 205 071 A1.
- the rubber crawler 2 has a chain body 20, which may also be referred to as a carcass 20.
- the chain body 20 is arranged with its underside on the inside or top of the inner mold 10 resting. From above, the stud shapes 12 sit with their undersides on top of the chain body 20.
- a plurality of steel cables 21 are embedded, which extend in the longitudinal direction. Both the chain body 20 and the steel cables 21 are endlessly closed in the longitudinal direction as a circumferential direction.
- the outer progla ists institute 22 are each obliquely laterally in the transverse direction Y surrounded by the stud shapes 12 and from above of the outer mold 11.
- the studs 22 are formed from two different elastomeric materials.
- the stud body 23, which form the upwardly projecting tips of the studs 22, a relatively abrasion-resistant material, which can also cause a relatively good adhesion to the ground.
- the stud feet 24, which form the areas between the stud bodies 23 and the chain body 20, a material which a lower self-heating, a higher dynamic strength and a better connection to the material of the chain body 20 as the material of the stud body 23rd having.
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DE102016225396.4A DE102016225396A1 (en) | 2016-12-19 | 2016-12-19 | Caterpillar, in particular rubber crawler |
PCT/EP2017/076653 WO2018114084A1 (en) | 2016-12-19 | 2017-10-19 | Crawler track, in particular rubber crawler track |
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EP (1) | EP3554930A1 (en) |
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WO (1) | WO2018114084A1 (en) |
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