Patent ID: 7753620

Claim:
Automotive road milling machine of the large-sized type, for milling a ground surface or traffic surface, with a chassis provided with a front axle and a rear axle, including one or more crawler track units or wheels, a machine frame carried by the chassis with lateral outer walls and a longitudinal center-line, a milling drum supported at the machine frame, the milling drum being located at a distance ahead of the crawler track units or wheels of the rear axle and at a distance behind the crawler track units or wheels of the front axle, where one front end of the milling drum reaches as far as an outer side of the machine frame called the zero side for the purpose of close-to-edge milling, and an operator station with a platform for the machine operator, characterized in that the part of the machine frame located on the zero side in front of the platform for the machine operator when seen in the direction of travel is set back inwards in such a manner that a recess running in vertical direction and open towards the outer side, as well as towards the bottom and towards the top is formed in the machine frame, the said recess widening in such a manner downwards and towards the front when seen in the direction of travel that a steering angle of at least one of the front crawler track units or wheels is visible to the operator from the platform.