Patent ID: 6296328
Filing Date: 2001-10-02
Classification: B62D

Abstract:
A continuous, flexible, looped track for mounting on all terrain vehicle tires comprising:a plurality of used tires, a tread surface and sidewalls of each tire of said plurality of used tires being severed through at a first location on each tire so as to form first and second faces on opposite ends of each tire segment so formed when laid flat,said tire segments joined together, end to end, to make a continuous flexible track by abutting and joining said second face of a first tire segment to said first face of an adjacent second tire segment and so on in succession joining said plurality of used tires in end-to-end array so as to form said track,wherein, an inner circumference of said track is equal to an exterior tangential perimeter distance of said vehicle tires about which said track is to extend, so that, when said array is placed about said vehicle tires, said array snugly frictionally engages said vehicle tires, and said track may be synchronously propelled along with said vehicle tires by driving at least one of said vehicle tires,wherein said plurality of used tires are used tires selected from used said all terrain vehicle tires so as to match said track size to said all terrain vehicle tires to thereby assist in said snug frictional engagement of said array with said vehicle tires and further comprising second wheels and corresponding second tires mounted to each of said vehicle wheels for cooperative rotation therewith,a second track mounted on said second tires parallel to said track wherein said second track is a second array of tire segments joined end-to-end,said second track mounted to said track by fastening of corresponding sidewalls together, for cooperative rotation therewith.