FIRE-FIGHTING UNIT Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: fire-fighting equipment; applicable in fighting forest-steppe fires in hard-to-reach, arid regions. SUBSTANCE: fire-fighting unit has base do-all forest tractor or convertible caterpillar, wheel vehicles with catapult for ejection of fire-extinguishing ground and other solid bodies with controls for varying sector of ejection in horizontal and vertical planes. Catapult consists of drive, lower and upper hollow rollers made of flexible materials, for instance, of rubber, or comprised of tires of vehicles and bin. Catapult feeder consists of plow with hydraulic control, guide shield, bin, ground loader in form of gathering arms with drive, flight conveyer with drive, control panel and ripper located in front of the unit. EFFECT: higher efficiency. 2 cl, 2 dwg