Soucy Fits Rubber Tracks To Many Machines

摘要

Soucy exhibited its ST-900 heavy-duty track modules on a JCB telehandler at Conexpo 2008 as its official introduction to the construction market aftermarket. The Quebec-based company has been making rubber track, drive wheels, idlers and rollers for ASV, Caterpillar, Bombardier, and other OEMs for quite some time. They began marketing complete track modules directly to ag-equipment users about five years ago.rnOne of the primary differences between the Soucy track module and most other rubber-track systems is that Soucy doesn't use belt tension to transfer drive torque to the belt. Instead, they mold their track belt with two or three rows of drive lugs projecting to the inside. Lugs interlock with horizontal bars placed around the circumference of the drive wheel. The drive wheel is a spinning cage, rather than a toothed sprocket. With multiple rows of lugs, there are always 10 or 12 lugs engaged with the cage wheel at the same time.