RIVER FERRY Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC B63B35/54 B63B35/12 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to river vehicles and can be used for all-the-year-round transportation of people and cargoes from one river bank to another. Proposed ferry comprises water craft with symmetric boa parts supporting vertical barrels furnished with rings, ropes, two rotor-type windmills, hydraulic turbines mounted in cylindrical flow passages, electric generators connected with storage batteries mounted on water craft deck, nearby control post. Note here that one end of the rope is secured to the barrel and another one is jointed to support mounted on river bottom in headwaters. Water craft bow part with its bottom having suction openings houses water-jet propeller representing a multi-blade impeller linked by shaft with electric motor.

EFFECT: improved operating conditions.

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