Commercial Vehicle
Technical Paper

Rubber Tracks for Agriculture

450234

01/01/1945

Event
Pre-1964 SAE Technical Papers
Authors
C. O. SLEMMONS
Abstract
Content
MANY agricultural engineers have long sought means of utilizing the undoubted advantages of track-laying vehicles; that is, superior traction and flotation. However, because of mechanical inefficiencies and high cost, tracks had not gained any wide-spread favor until the development of the rubber track shortly before the war.
The impetus of war brought a period of intensive research into the uses of rubber tracks, and Mr. Slemmons believes that the rubber track is destined to be more and more widely used in farm work.
In this article he discusses in detail the means by which rubber tracks have been applied to various vehicles. He discusses these tracks under the three general headings:
  1. 1.
    Band tracks.
  2. 2.
    Band block tracks.
  3. 3.
    Flexible, friction drive tracks.
Meta Tags
Topics
Elastomers
Flotation
Traction
Research and development
Details
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/450234
Pages
6
Citation
SLEMMONS, C., "Rubber Tracks for Agriculture," SAE Technical Paper 450234, 1945, https://doi.org/10.4271/450234.
Additional Details
Publisher
SAE International
Published
Jan 1, 1945
Product Code
450234
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English