FR2708556A1 - Multi-use motor vehicle with caterpillar tracks - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a multi-use motor vehicle with caterpillar tracks having a loading platform (3) equipped with means allowing it to be associated with panels forming interchangeable interfaces equipped with linking means able to hold any elements, such as containers for example. The loading platform (3) is equipped with free peripheral edges capable of accommodating interfaces (9, 9a, 10) for joining closely together several motor vehicles exhibiting loading platforms (3) in the same plane, thus making it possible to make several containers (11) with coincident doors intercommunicate.

Description

Multiple-use tracked motor vehicle

  The Applicant holds the patent for invention

  industrial N 1,183,793 which relates to a motor vehicle

  versatile track bile which is distinguished by the fact that

  its loading platform is provided with additional means

  of retaining means integral with one of the two fac-

  these of an interchangeable interface plate. The over-

  face of the plates forming interfaces which is opposite to that contiguous to the platform of the motor vehicle is provided with connecting means, complementary to corresponding means

  carried by the bottom or base wall of various mo-

  galls such as cabins for the transport of people, ambulance services and / or container transport

  for the storage of various articles, tanks for various

  its substances, equipment for field hospitals,

  radio transceivers, radar stations, defenses and the like; the motor vehicle can receive

  and transport any of the above loads.

  The motor vehicle which is the subject of the aforementioned patent

  is fitted with a driving and control cabin capable of receiving

see only the driver.

  The subject of the present invention is a motor vehicle

  the crawler with a platform presenting all the ca-

  main characteristics of the tracked motor vehicle

  subject to the aforementioned patent from which it differs this-

  pendant by the structure of the cabin which, thanks to certain

  modifications of internal and ex geometry and volumetry

  dull bodywork, includes second place for assistant driver or assistant and third place

for another collaborator.

  The tracked vehicle of the present invention

  tion is further characterized in that the longitudi-

  parallel ends and possibly the rear terminal edge of the loading platform, quadrangular in shape, are

  provided with connecting means which allow to reunite between el-

  the several units placed side by side or aligned along-

  dinalically in such a way that if on the platform of

  these are mounted parallelepipedic containers, mu-

  nis of side access doors, symmetrical and coincident, one can obtain several communicating spaces, of desired planimetric extent, which can be intended for

various uses.

  Obviously, so that several units placed side by side

  tee or variously grouped can be united and constituted

  er spaces communicating with each other it is essential to

  provide in advance for the means which establish coplanari-

  loading platforms of the various units, eg

  gence which can be satisfied by the prior leveling of the supporting ground, which can be carried out for example by the formation of adapted platforms, out of wood, concrete or another adapted material or possibly by leveling the

track support soil.

  The invention is described below with reference to

  schematic annexed drawings for clarity and on-

which:

  Figures 1, 2 and 3 show schematically, res-

  pectively in side view, in rear view and in plan view from above, the driving cabin being deprived of its roof, a type of tracked motor vehicle in accordance with the subject of the aforementioned patent;

  Figures 4, 5 and 6, similar to the previous figures

  tes, represent semi-tracked motor vehicles

  blable but in which the internal and external geometry of

  the driver's cabin is designed so that it can receive

  see the driver and the assistant driver or the driver and an assistant; Figures 7, 8 and 9, similar to Figures 1, 2 and 3, illustrate a tracked vehicle with an enlarged cabin

  in order to receive two people in addition to the conduc-

guardian;

  Figure 10 is a top plan view of two vehicles

  automotive tracks with tracks linked together along a sidewall, for example of the type shown in FIGS. 1 to 3, this example being able to be extended to the other two types of FIGS. 4 to 9; and Figure 11 is a side view of one of the vehicles

  automobiles shown in Figure 10.

  In Figures 1, 2 and 3 is designated by 1 the tracked vehicle as a whole, equipped with the cabin

  2 and the loading platform 3, the group gate

  eg powertrain being designated by 5, the driver's hatch cover by 6, the driver's seat by 6a and the powertrain by 7. As indicated for

  patent n 1183793, the plate 4 forming an interface is applied

  quée on platform 3; the connection means between the plate 4 and the platform 3 are standardized for a certain number of plates which, on their upper face, are provided

  different means of connection from each other but

  additional similar means carried by the bottom of the story

  neur, or other, intended to be mounted on the motor vehicle

  bile. According to the present invention, with reference to FIGS. 4, 5 and 6 in which the elements identical to those of

  Figures 1, 2 and 3 are designated by the same reference numbers.

  ference, the cabin 2a is made larger and is provided with the gate 5 which gives access to the compartment containing the powertrain 7, and the side emergency door a. By 6 and 6a are designated the hatch covers for

  the driver's and assistant driver's or driver's seat

  sistant; 6b and 6c designate the two seats arranged in front.

  As for Figures 7, 8 and 9 the cabin 2b of the vehicle au-

  tomobile 1 keeps the shape but has ac-

  flooded compared to the cabin of Figure 1 and is provided

  a side emergency door 5b, so as to be able to

  pick two people, in addition to the driver, and offer for this purpose three places 6b, 6c and 6d arranged on the same plane

  or on different planes, the hatch covers are

  placed above the driver's seat and the driver's seat

  seal being designated by 6 and 6a.

  Between the control cabin and the platform 3 is pre-

  seen a door or "manhole", not shown, which provides access to platform 3 and to the container or to what can

  else be mounted on this platform.

  The dimensions of the various parts of each vehicle

  tracked car can vary in any case

  tion of various requirements in each particular case, such as

  shown in Figures 10 and 11 o the sides longitudi-

  parallel and parallel and the rear edge of the platform 3 are arranged to receive interfaces 9, 9a and 10 which allow intimately bringing together two or more tracked motor vehicles with platforms of identical dimensions, arranged either side by side , either transversely

  relative to each other, or aligned longitudinally-

lement.

  This having been posed, the various platforms 3 must

  wind, as already indicated, being in the same plane, and the interfaces 9, 9a and 10 are advantageously presented under

  strip shape with a geometric cross section-

  most appropriate, such as the one with L

  sé, double T or another section of shape and dimensions capable of retaining the edges, facing them, of the platforms

my to reunite.

  It is also advantageous for the bands forming inter-

  sides are made of a suitable material, mechanically

  resistant but elastically deformable within ac-

ceptables.

  As shown in FIG. 11, the containers 11,

  transported by tracked motor vehicles intended for

  born to be grouped, are provided laterally with doors 12, di-

  curtain panels, which can be rolled up on rollers with a vertical or horizontal axis, in order to create spaces that are much larger than that defined by a single container, their extent can in any case be defined arbitrarily by

according to specific requirements.

  From the above clearly follows the advantages of-

  ferts by the use of tracked motor vehicles

  of the type which is the subject of the present invention.

  The structural details of the motor vehicle, which are not shown, may in any case vary depending on the specific requirements of the use of each.

  motor vehicle, without departing from the scope of the invention.

Claims (8)

  1. Multipurpose tracked motor vehicle, comprising a control cabin (2) and a loading platform (3) arranged to be associated with an interface in   form of plate (4), interchangeable, on the upper surface   eure of which can be quickly mounted elements of various structures, quick locking and unlocking means being provided for anchoring the plate (4) forming an interface with respect to the platform (3), characterized in that '' at the three free perimeter edges of the platform (3)   interfaces (9, 9a, 10) can be associated which allow   attempt to join the platforms (3) of two or more motor vehicles placed side by side and / or of two or more motor vehicles arranged transversely to one another or else aligned longitudinally, and in that the cabin of the motor vehicle is designed to receive one or two persons, in addition to the driver, and provision is therefore made in the latter for two or three seats.   2. Multipurpose tracked motor vehicle   according to claim 1, characterized in that the structures   internal and external res of the control cabin vary in   according to the requirements of the interior spaces of the cabin.   3. Multipurpose tracked motor vehicle   according to claim 1, characterized in that the interfa-   these perimeters applicable to the free edges of the perimeter of the platform (3) have a double T cross section. 4. Multipurpose tracked motor vehicle   according to claim 1, characterized in that the interfa-   these applicable to the free edges of the platform (3) are made of a moderately elastically deformable material,   blocking means being provided between adjacent platforms   coplanar centers and interfaces.   5. Tracked motor vehicle according to the claim   tion 1, two or more motor vehicles which can be secured to each other by being placed side by side and / or transversely with respect to each other, or else with   their longitudinal axes parallel to each other or aligned along   gitudinally, characterized in that the containers (11),   installed on the loading platforms (3) of the   they have symmetrical doors which make them containers communicate with each other.   6. Multipurpose tracked motor vehicle   having containers (11) placed on the correct platforms   respondents (3) with interposition of interfaces (4), charac-   terized in that the side doors of the containers are   made up of curtains which can be rolled up or raised massed on the sides.   7. Multipurpose tracked motor vehicle according to claim (1), capable of receiving a person, such as the driver, to three people, such as for example   a driver, an assistant driver and an assistant,   pant individual seats arranged coplanarly on different shots.   8. Multipurpose tracked motor vehicle   according to any one of the preceding claims, charac-   in that it is able to receive three people and   that seats (6b, 6c and 6d) for the latter are available   laid so as to form an angle.