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公开(公告)号:US3861319A
公开(公告)日:1975-01-21
申请号:US27976972
申请日:1972-08-14
申请人: GELHARD EGON , GUNKEL H RUDOLF
发明人: GELHARD EGON , GUNKEL H RUDOLF
摘要: A transportation system is disclosed and claimed herein for the conveyance of petroleum or other products from areas having adverse climatic conditions to a destination where the materials may be more conventionally handled. The system likewise includes means for returning transportation vehicles to the point of origin for refilling. A pipe conduit system is suspended from a plurality of supports and receives at least one vehicle movable on a trackway therethrough. The vehicle is self driven and receives power from a power supply located within the conduit. Additionally, outside rails may be secured to the pipe conduit, so as to receive additional outside driven vehicles for the transportation of freight or passengers. The vehicle of the present invention comprises a transportation container suspended on opposite ends thereof from two independent drive units. The drive units have a housing with male and female coupling members secured thereto and extending outwardly in opposite directions therefrom. Received around the housing is a rotatable drum that serves as a single wheel for the driving unit and engages the trackway within the conduit. The drum is provided with preferably an alternating current electric motor coupled to a hydrodynamic torque converter which in turn is coupled to a sun and planet gear arrangement. The interior periphery of the drum is associated with one of the gears of the sun and planet gear arrangement so as to receive driving power therefrom. Electric power is received by contacts on the housing that engage current rails received in the upper portion of the conduit. Both the transportation system and the vehicle are claimed.
摘要翻译: 本文公开和要求的运输系统用于将石油或其他产品从具有不利气候条件的区域运送到可以更常规地处理材料的目的地。 该系统同样包括用于将运输车辆返回到起点的装置以用于再填充。 管道系统从多个支撑件悬挂并且容纳至少一个在轨道上可移动的车辆。 车辆是自驱动的,并从位于管道内的电源接收电力。 此外,外部轨道可以固定到管道,以便接收用于运输货物或乘客的额外的外部驱动车辆。
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公开(公告)号:US3620485A
公开(公告)日:1971-11-16
申请号:US3620485D
申请日:1968-10-31
申请人: GELHARD EGON
发明人: GELHARD EGON
CPC分类号: B64B1/00
摘要: A lighter-than-air aircraft having a central passageway longitudinal of the aircraft and a plurality of passageways radiating laterally therefrom. Suitable air moving means are located in said passageways near the forward end of the aircraft for drawing air into said passageways through the forward end thereof and supplying same under pressure to the rearward portion of said central passageway and to said radiating passageways. Suitable independently operated valving means on all of said passageways permit opening and closing of said selected ones thereof whereby said aircraft may be caused to move forwardly or stand still and may be further caused to move upwardly, downwardly or sidewardly. Reversing of said air moving means moves said aircraft rearwardly. Lifting gas is provided in a plurality of independent compartments, same being divided by a flexible diaphragm with lifting gas in one portion thereof and air in the other portion. By varying the proportion of air and lifting gas in selected ones or all of said compartments, the lift of the aircraft may be suitably adjusted or same may be trimmed.
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