ARMORED RECOVERY VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC F41H7/00 

FIELD: weapons and ammunition.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to the field of armored engineer vehicles, particularly, to the armored recovery vehicle (ARV) of the light class. ARV contains a casing with a roof and a supporting and turning crane device with a column and a ball-type swivel pad, which is equipped with two rows of balls and radial spherical bearing with a ring, secured on it. The ball-type swivel pad is connected with the pad installed onboard the vehicle, and the ring with the radial bearing is secured in the roof counterbore of the vehicle body. Two diametrically located holes are performed in the ring of the bottom row of the balls of the swivel pad coaxially to the pair of the smooth holes of the top row of balls of the swivel pad. The thread holes and the smooth holes are spread to an arbitrary angle relatively to the mounting holes of the ball-type swivel pad with the pad installed onboard the vehicle.

EFFECT: invention allows simplifying of dismantling of the supporting and turning crane device.

2 cl, 4 dwg