VEHICLE DESIGNED FOR TRAVELING ALONG INCLINED AND VERTICAL SURFACES Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC B62D57/32 B62D57/24 

FIELD: transport engineering; self-propelled vehicles.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to self-propelled vehicles capable of traveling over inclined and vertical surfaces, and it can be used for carrying technological equipment in difficult-to-get-at places and in dangerous zones. Proposed vehicle has body and step travel motion mechanism made in form of double-acting pneumatic cylinders arranged square to each other and connected to each other and to body. Extensible supports with lifting-lowering drives are installed on ends of rods of pneumatic cylinders. Step travel motion mechanism is provided with cylindrical sealed chambers installed parallel to two pneumatic cylinders, and their inner spaces are coupled with compressed air sources and furnished with hollow rods whose ends are connected by crossmembers with extensible supports. Hollows rods are provided with holes communicating space with inner space of sealed chamber.

EFFECT: simplified design of device, reduced number of air distributing sets and simplified control systems.

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