Three-wheeled motor vehicle

Claim 1

A VEHICLE COMPRISING A MAIN FRAME, TWO DRIVE WHEELS ARRANGED IN TANDEM, A FRONT STEERING WHEEL, SAID A PIVOTABLY MOUNTED IN A FRONT STEERING WHEEL FRAME, A PIVOTAL SUPPORT FOR SAID FRONT STEERING WHEEL FRAME, SAID SUPPORT BEING FIRMLY ATTACHED TO SAID MAIN FRAME, SAID STEERING WHEEL FRAME BEING PIVOTALLY YET FIRMLY LOCATED IN SAID SUPPORT FOR PIVOTAL MOVEMENT ABOUT AN AXIS OF ROTATION, SAID STEERING WHEEL THUS BEING PIVOTALLY AND ROTATABLY ATTACHED TO SAID MAIN FRAME, EACH OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS BEING ROTATABLY SUPPORTED ON A SEPARATE AXLE, EACH OF SAID AXLES BEING PARALLEL AND SUPPORTED ON A SECOND, PIVOT, FRAME AND EACH OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS ROTATES IN THE SAME FLAT VERTICAL PLANE, SAID AXLES EACH HAVING A LONGITUDINAL AXIS, SAID AXES EACH LYING IN A FLAT HORIZONTAL PLANE, PIVOTAL SUPPORTS FIXEDLY ATTACHED ON SAID MAIN FRAME, SAID SECOND, PIVOTAL FRAME PIVOTALLY SUPPORTED ON SAID PIVOTAL SUPPORTS, SAID PIVOTAL SUPPORTS PROVIDING AN AXIS OF ROTATION OF SAID SECOND, PIVOTAL, FRAME PARALLEL TO THE AXLES OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS, THE SUPPORT FOR SAID FRONT STEERING WHEEL FRAME PROVIDING SUCH WHEEL FRAME AN AXIS OF ROTATION WHICH LIES IN THE FLAT VERTICAL PLANE OF ROTATION OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS AND WHICH FLAT VERTICAL PLANE IS PERPENDICULAR TO SAID FLAT HORIZONTAL PLANE IN WHICH THE LONGITUDINAL AXES OF THE AXLES FOR SAID DRIVE WHEELS LIE, AND SAID AXIS PROVIDED BY THE SUPPORT OF SAID FRONT STEERING FRAME IS DIRECTED DOWNWARDLY AND FORWARDLY, THE PLANE OF ROTATION OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS AND OF SAID STEERING WHEEL LYING IN THE SAME FLAT VERTICAL PLANE, MOTOR MEANS AND A POWER TRANSMISSION MEANS SUPPORTED ON SAID MAIN FRAME, A MECHANICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE SAID POWER TRANSMISSION MEANS AND SAID MOTOR WHEREBY SAID POWER TRANSMISSION MEANS IS DRIVEN BY SAID ROTOR, A FIRST MECHANICAL CONNECTION FROM SAID POWER TRANSMISSION MEANS TO ONE OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS AND ANOTHER MECHANICAL CONNECTION FROM SAID POWER TRANSMISSION MEANS TO THE OTHER OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS WHEREBY EACH OF SAID DRIVE WHEELS IS INDEPENDENTLY CONNECTED TO SAID POWER TRANSMISSION MEANS AND PIVOT ARRESTING MEANS COMPRISING A FIRST PIVOT ARRESTING PART ATTACHED TO SAID SECOND, PIVOTAL, FRAME AND A LATTER PIVOT ARRESTING PART ATTACHED TO SAID MAIN FRAME, SAID FIRST PART AND SAID LATTER PART BEING ENGAGEABLE WITH EACH OTHER TO THEREBY ARREST THE ROTATION OF SAID PIVOTAL FRAME WITH RESPECT TO SAID MAIN FRAME, MEANS ATTACHED TO SAID LATTER PIVOT ARRESTING PART HOLDING IT SPACED AWAY FROM SAID FIRST PIVOT ARRESTING PART NORMALLY, AND MOVABLE CONTROL MEANS ATTACHED TO SAID MAIN FRAME AND TO SAID LATTER PIVOT ARRESTING PART FOR MOVING SAID TWO PIVOT ARRESTING PARTS INTO AND OUT OF OPERATIVE CONTACT.