Patent ID: 7901015

Claim:
A cleat for releasable clamped engagement to a continuous rubber track on a mobile construction unit for improving traction, comprising: (a) a body with downwardly extending, inwardly facing and laterally spaced end hooks, wherein at least one of the end hooks is laterally repositionable relative to the other end hook between an open position and a closed position, (b) at least one projection extending upward from the body effective for biting engagement with a supporting surface, and (c) a manually operable repositioning assembly for reversibly driving the at least one laterally repositionable end hook towards the other end hook, whereby the body may be clamped onto a rubber track on a mobile construction unit wherein the rubber tracks have grooves on the outward facing major surface creating tread on the rubber track, the cleat further comprises a stabilizing fin extending downward from the body proximate each lateral end of the body, and the body is adapted to be laid onto the track with each stabilizing fin positioned within a groove in the outward facing major surface of the track.