Fluid cushion device

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1987-07-10

1990-01-30

Focarino, Margaret A.

Railways

Fluid supported car or simulated aerial vehicle

Car supported by fluid current pushing against surface

104 85, 180116, 180127, 414676, B60V 116, B61D 1500

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048966100

ABSTRACT:
Fluid cushion equipment comprising a floor having valves supplied by a matrix of fluid supply lines and a fluid cushion platform. Positioning of the platform on or above the valves actively causes them to open to supply fluid beneath the platform which is trapped by flexible hollow tubular skirts. The platforms are driven in the described direction by one or more wheeled drives which are only in contact with the floor when thrust is required.

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"Air-in-Floor Trailers" pamphlet by Clark Equipment, Brown Trailer Division, Sep. 1963.

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