WALKING SUPPORT FOR MULTISUPPORT CROSS-COUNTRY TRANSPORT Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering; walking vehicles. SUBSTANCE: proposed support has housing 1, walking propulsive devices 2, power drive 3 and carrying beams 4 on which walking propulsive devices are installed in pairs on lever suspensions 5 at right and left sides of vehicle. To provide turning, walking propulsion devices 2 are provided with turning mechanism 10 made in form of asynchronous propeller shaft drives 11 coupling power drive 3 of walking support and side reduction gears 12 of walking propulsive devices 2. Turning mechanism 10 furnished with power hydraulic cylinders 16 for additionally coupling carrying beams 4 and housing 1 and provided stepless by-side changes of speed of support surfaces of shoes 7 by changing angle of tiling of driving shaft 13 and driven shaft 14 of propeller shaft drive 11 relative to its intermediate shaft 15. Hydraulic cylinders 16 of turning mechanism 10 form, together with lever suspension 5, leveling system of housing 1. EFFECT: improved maneuverability, reduced power required for vertical oscillations of housing, enhanced performance. 5 dwg