Patent ID: 7883160

Claim:
An elastic crawler comprising: a crawler body comprising an elastic body in the form of an endless belt; a plurality of metal cores embedded in the crawler body, each of the metal cores including vanes extending toward lateral ends of the crawler body and arranged at predetermined intervals in a circumferential direction of the crawler body; and a plurality of tensile cords arranged in a transverse direction of the crawler body, wound around an outer circumference side of the vanes, and embedded in the crawler body while portions of both ends of each of the tensile cords are overlapped with one another in a predetermined length, wherein: an inner circumference side end of each of the tensile cords is arranged at an outer circumference side of one of the vanes; and a distance between a portion from a vicinity portion of the inner circumference side end of each of the tensile cords to the inner circumference side end and an outer circumference side portion of the tensile cord overlapped with the portion from the vicinity portion to the inner circumference side end is increased from the vicinity portion toward the inner circumference side end or is larger than a distance between the rest of the overlapping portions of the tensile cord.