MONORAIL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC B61B13/04 

FIELD: transport industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to transport industry, namely to transportation systems with traveling structure related to tracks of overhead and trestle types, and can be used at new areas exploration in conditions of flooded regions including river banks. The system includes vehicle, transport beam with guide rails and bearing surfaces fixed at the supports, wheel sets arranged out of body dimensions. The system is equipped with guide beam installed at the posts parallel to transport beam with the possibility of vertical movement. The system is also equipped with rotating platforms connected with body by axes. Rotating platforms are connected with supporting and guiding set of wheels with the aid of extension-type hydraulic cylinders. Hydraulic cylinders are connected between themselves by reinforcement ribs and with guide beam via fixing set of wheels. Vehicle is equipped with disk brakes contacting support wheels side surface. Support wheels are connected with towing drive through hydraulic pump. At the posts there are trolley power lines connected with towing drive by means of running contacts.

EFFECT: extension of application area of this kind of devices at the expense of possibility of body height adjustment during vehicle movement in the conditions of flooded areas.

2 cl, 2 dwg