MINE EXPLODER Russian patent published in 2002 - IPC

FIELD: military engineering, applicable in zones of emergency, in particular, mine-exploding equipment for clearing of passages on mined areas of terrain. SUBSTANCE: mine exploder has a set of knife sections installed on the base vehicle, each section comprises a working member consisting of a plowshare with hanging knives positioned before the tracks or wheels of the base vehicle running gear. The working member has a vibrator with an eccentric and vibration drive to the hanging knives built in a sealed space formed by horizontal and vertical explosion-proof plates-shields fastened on the back side of the working member plowshare of the knife section. Each hanging knife of the working member is made in the form of a bell-crank hinge-mounted in the lower part of the plowshare on an axle, the lower arm of the bell-crank is made as the working member-hanging knife, and profiled on the upper arm built in the sealed space is the contact surface of wear- resistant material engageable with the kinematic member of the vibration drive in the form of a cam eccentric fastened on the vibrator output shaft. The vibration drive to the hanging knives is made in the form of a kinematic step, whose secondary shaft is provided with an individual cam eccentric for action on the subsequent hanging knives of the working member in the process of mine explosion. EFFECT: facilitated process of cutting-through of dense ground and descending of ground from the plowshare surface at mine explosion with an engaged vibrator due to vibrations of the knives produced by the vibrator with an eccentric and the vibration drive. 3 cl, 2 dwg