Patent ID: 7070244

Claim:
Road milling machine with a chassis ( 13 ) having at least four wheels and a cylindrical milling drum ( 18 ) mounted on the chassis and driven about a horizontal axis of rotation, comprising: two steerable front wheels ( 14 ) with axles ( 48 ) assigned to a front axle, at least two non-steerable rear wheels with horizontal axles assigned to a rear axle, the rear wheels being movable up and down on vertical axes independent of one another, and at least one of the rear wheels can be swiveled so that it is located in front of the milling drum, two motors ( 37 ), one of the two motors being assigned to each of the front wheels respectively for driving each of the respective front wheels, and outer sleeves ( 44 ) rotatably mounted on coupling pieces ( 33 , 34 ) and attached to wheel bearings ( 35 , 36 ) on each of the respective front wheels, wherein the front wheels are steered by rotating the outer sleeves wherein the front axle with the steerable wheels is configured as a parallelogram steering axle ( 23 ) such that the steerable wheels move up and down relative to each other and to the chassis in mutually opposite directions, the wheels on one side of the chassis run in a track that has already been milled and is deeper than the track on which the wheels on the other side of the chassis run, and the axles of the two steerable wheels maintain a uniform horizontal alignment, wherein the parallelogram steering axle has two levers ( 24 , 25 ), running parallel to and above one another, which are pivotably mounted on a bearing block ( 28 ) of the chassis and which can be swiveled about center axes ( 26 , 27 ), and adjacent ends ( 29 and 30 ; 31 and 32 ) of the levers are respectively connected by means of the coupling pieces assigned to the wheel bearing of the respective steerable front wheel, whereby the chassis and the milling drum are maintained in a horizontal alignment during a road milling process.