Cooling air duct and screen arrangement for an air cooled engine

Claim 1

In combination with a vehicle including a fore-and-aft extending main frame, an operator's station located about midway between opposite ends of the frame, and air cooled engine mounted to the frame at a location behind the station and including a cooling shroud having a forwardly disposed inlet located at a level below said station, and a hood extending over said engine and having an inverted U-shaped forward end terminating at a location forwardly of said cooling shroud, an improved cooling air system for ensuring a supply of relatively clean air for ingestion by the shroud, comprising: a vertical transverse baffle mounted to the frame and fitting closely against a forward top portion of the shroud and having an edge shaped complementary to and disposed at least closely adjacent the hood; an air duct mounted to the frame and having an upright rear wall seated against the front of the shroud in an area surrounding said inlet; said air duct further having an upright front wall and a connecting wall joining respective side and bottom edges of the front and rear walls and cooperating therewith to define an upwardly facing opening; a screen located forwardly of the baffle and having a top and front joined by opposite sides with the top and opposite sides having rear edges mounted against said baffle and with the opposite sides and front having bottom edges engaged with said air duct about said upwardly facing opening wherein said screen is mounted solely to said baffle by connection means including a vertical guide means provided on the forward side of said baffle and flange means formed on said screen and being vertically slidably received in said guide means, whereby said screen may be slid vertically away from said baffle for being cleaned.