Amphibious caterpillar track shoe
View Patent ↗The present invention provides an amphibious caterpillar track shoe, which has a novel structure and has greater buoyancy while increasing the durability of the track shoe by means of a foam buoyant member and a fixing frame, and has webbed protruding parts capable of improving the movement speed of a track vehicle on water.
1. An amphibious caterpillar track shoe comprising:
a first buoyant section having a hexahedral buoyant foam body with a wide width and a short length, the first buoyant section having pad-coupling recesses in an upper surface, a lower surface, and opposite sides thereof;
a first fixing frame provided in close contact with front, rear, and bottom surfaces of the first buoyant section to fix the first buoyant section, wherein a width thereof is smaller than that of the first buoyant section;
a foam pad having a rectangular ring-type coupling part fixedly inserted into the pad-coupling recess of the first buoyant section, a bottom plate part formed at a lower portion of the coupling part, and a webbed protruding part formed downwards on an undersurface of the bottom plate part, extending in a width direction of the bottom plate part;
a connection plate provided on the upper surface of the first buoyant section and having on front and rear surfaces thereof connection brackets to couple an adjacent connection plate, wherein a width thereof is smaller than that of the first buoyant section, and a longitudinal length thereof corresponds to that of the first buoyant section;
a second buoyant section provided on an upper surface of the connection plate and having a hexahedral buoyant foam body, wherein a width thereof is smaller than that of the first buoyant section;
a second fixing frame provided to fix the second buoyant section and having a pair of fixing side plate parts closely contacting and covering the opposite sides of the second buoyant section, and a connection part connecting the pair of fixing side plate parts, wherein the second fixing frame is provided with front and rear openings through which the front and rear surfaces of the second buoyant section are exposed to the outside, respectively; and
a fastening member fastening the first and second fixing frames to the connection plate.
2. The amphibious caterpillar track shoe of claim 1 , wherein a first support plate is provided on an upper portion of the first fixing frame, a second support plate is provided on a lower portion of the second fixing frame, the fastening member fastens the first and second fixing frames to the connection plate through the second support plate, the connection plate, and the first support plate, and the second fixing frame is provided with an upper opening through which an upper surface of the second buoyant section is exposed to the outside.
3. The amphibious caterpillar track shoe of claim 1 , wherein the second fixing frame is provided with a fixing upper plate to cover an upper surface of the second buoyant section, and the fastening member fastens the first and second fixing frames to the connection plate through an upper surface of the fixing upper plate of the second fixing frame, the connection plate, and a lower surface of the first fixing frame.
4. The amphibious caterpillar track shoe of claim 1 , wherein the bottom plate part of the foam pad is further provided with a protruding rib formed downwards on the undersurface of the bottom plate part, extending perpendicular to the webbed protruding part.