Ships – Building – Canal and ferry boats
Patent
1974-10-04
1976-04-20
Blix, Trygve M.
Ships
Building
Canal and ferry boats
114 67A, B60F 300
Patent
active
039510930
ABSTRACT:
This invention of an amphibious air track vehicle consists of five major assemblies. There are two equally spaced and parallel floatable elongated bodies each of which is encompassed by a belt having a plurality of extended space, parallel and laterally disposed floatable cleats; and drive sprockets which rotate the belts about the elongated bodies. Rotation apparatus for the belts is contained within each body; and a plurality of buoyant wheels each having low pressure tires thereon; and secondly wheels being mounted end to end on a single axis to form a floatable box-like wheel unit, there being two separate boxlike wheel units, one at each end of the vehicle and positioned laterally between each of the floatable elongated bodies; and lastly, a body structure that forms a top deck, rectangular in form, that extends over top of both the two floatable elongated bodies and their belts and the two box-like wheel units. The underside of the body structure is provided with a plurality of laterally extending, parallel and equally spaced vertically-disposed semi-flexible curtain-like structures that divide the rectangular space on the under side of the body structure and between the floatable elongated bodies that are located with one body on and under each side of the body structure and between the box-like two wheel units that provide four rigid support outer walls for air lift chambers that are divided into a plurality of compartments each of which is supplied with a downward flow of air under pressure from a separate blower mounted on top of the body structure and back of the control cabin power plant and forward of the deck space.
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Blix Trygve M.
Frankfort Charles E.
Sussman Morris
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