SAPROPEL EXTRACTION DEVICE Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: sapropel extraction technologies.

SUBSTANCE: device has watercraft, rectangular receiving device in plan with two side vertical walls, device for catching and transporting sapropel and tank for it. Watercraft is made of platform on two pontoons, and between pontoons receiving device is placed, provided with slanting relatively to platform end walls with forming of closed space. Upper edges of side and end walls are placed above water surface, and lower ones - in productive sapropel bed below clear water layer. Device for catching and transporting sapropel is made in form of one-chain conveyor, tail portion of which is suspended on twin ropes and placed in productive sapropel bed. Free ends of each pair of ropes are fixed with possible winding together and onto hand-actuated winch drum with stopping gear, mounted on two interconnected floats. Head portion of one-chain conveyor is placed at shore with forming of convex and concave, in vertical plane, portions with placement of slanting portion within receiving device and fixing thereon via corbels. Receiving device on platform is fixed on the side of shore via joints, and on the opposite side is suspended to platform with two flexible elements, free ends of which are fixed with possible winding together and onto winches drums.

EFFECT: higher effectiveness and productiveness.

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