TRAILER Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: transport engineering.

SUBSTANCE: proposed trailer contains frame with flooring, wheelsets with tires, hinged ramps installed on rear end face part of frame and special railless vehicle fitted on. Hinged ramps are installed at both end face parts of frame and are interconnected in longitudinal plane by rods whose pistons are installed for movement in housing of floating pneumatic cylinders. Ramps are furnished with flexible stops engaging, when trailer is in traveling position, with end face surfaces of special railless self- propelled vehicle being equipped with position locks. At least two pairs of rollers arranged horizontally in cross plane of frame are found on frame flooring for rotation being provided with riffled rolling surfaces made in form of hyperboloid and equipped with brakes and gear wheels engaging with mating gear wheels rigidly secured on axles of wheelsets whose wheels are provided with ridges and profile of rolling corresponding to matting with heads of rails of rails track. Special railless self-propelled vehicle is provided with turnable cantilever crane of load capacity adequate to own mass of empty trailer.

EFFECT: provision of universal transport system for moving both along rails and rods and off-road, increased efficiency of use of railless vehicles.

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