GB1138317A - Ground effect transport system and track therefor - Google Patents

Ground effect transport system and track therefor

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Publication number
GB1138317A
GB1138317A GB2945666A GB2945666A GB1138317A GB 1138317 A GB1138317 A GB 1138317A GB 2945666 A GB2945666 A GB 2945666A GB 2945666 A GB2945666 A GB 2945666A GB 1138317 A GB1138317 A GB 1138317A
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track
vehicle
cushions
transport system
pylons
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GB2945666A
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Marc Henri Jean Faure
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Bertin Technologies SAS
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Bertin et Cie SA
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
    • B60V—AIR-CUSHION VEHICLES
    • B60V3/00—Land vehicles, waterborne vessels, or aircraft, adapted or modified to travel on air cushions
    • B60V3/02—Land vehicles, e.g. road vehicles
    • B60V3/04—Land vehicles, e.g. road vehicles co-operating with rails or other guiding means, e.g. with air cushion between rail and vehicle

Abstract

1,138,317. Transport systems; air cushion vehicles; elevated track. SOC. BERTIN & CIE. 30 June, 1966 [30 June, 1965], No. 29456/66. Headings B7K and B7L. A transport system comprises vehicles 3, Fig. 1, movable on pressurized-fluid cushions 5, 6, on a track 2 supported on pylons 14, the top surface of the track 2 being curved and concave and of a width substantially greater than that of a vehicle 3 and wherein the undersurface of each vehicle is provided with longitudinally extending flexible ribs 7 which confine the fluid cushions laterally of the vehicle and the free edges of the ribs lie on a convex geometrical surface 7a of the same or substantially the same radius of curvature as that of the track 2, whereby the vehicle is free to move transversely on the track and to assume thereon a position dependent upon the forces exerted on the vehicle, e.g. when on a curve Fig. 3 (not shown) or due to wind. The vehicle 3 has an air compressor 8 connected,by ducts 9 to a chamber 10 in turn connected by holes 11 to the cushions 5 and 6. Propulsion is effected by a rear mounted air screw 12. The track is provided with safety fences 15 and where tunnels are necessary, the track may consist of a cylindrical tube. The pylons 14 may be canted, where the track is tightly curved, as described with reference to Fig. 4 (not shown).
GB2945666A 1965-06-30 1966-06-30 Ground effect transport system and track therefor Expired GB1138317A (en)

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FR22955A FR1450644A (en) 1965-06-30 1965-06-30 Improvements to transport facilities including ground effect vehicles, mobile on a prepared track

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GB1138317A true GB1138317A (en) 1969-01-01

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Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3935819A (en) * 1974-05-07 1976-02-03 Klein Bradley R Mass transportation
NL2000580C2 (en) * 2007-04-11 2008-10-14 Movares Nederland Bv Person or property transporting system, has job and vehicle, where vehicle has external shape of wing profile during movement of vehicle on ground above floating position, and bottom of vehicle is around track area

Cited By (2)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3935819A (en) * 1974-05-07 1976-02-03 Klein Bradley R Mass transportation
NL2000580C2 (en) * 2007-04-11 2008-10-14 Movares Nederland Bv Person or property transporting system, has job and vehicle, where vehicle has external shape of wing profile during movement of vehicle on ground above floating position, and bottom of vehicle is around track area

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FR1450644A (en) 1966-06-24

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