WO2019033190A1 - CONVERSIVE TRACTOR FOR USE IN ANONYMOUS CONDITIONS - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a tractor with a convertible structure for carrying out unusual and non-traditional functions. It has two parts (1), the cells, one being a front, command cell (A) and the other being a rear, working cell (B), each cell on its own chassis (2), with accessories in accordance with function. It is convertible, having facilitated manoeuvrability for moving in difficult areas. The four or more tyreless, iron wheels (5) are identical and, depending on the terrain, the widths and heights vary, shoes (6) being used; the counterweights (10) are optionally used; the deflector (11) moves water and obstacles to the progress of the tractor to the sides; the rudder (12) forms part of the amphibious version and is fixed, since two hydraulic cylinders are responsible for steering, influencing the lateral mobility of the rear cell, which is permitted by the articulation (J).

Description

 CONVERSIBLE TRACTOR FOR USE IN ANONYMOUS CONDITIONS

 This Utility Model Patent refers to a convertible tractor, having structure and accessories different from traditional ones, and determined according to the non-conventional functions intended, which the new times require, and which the current equipment is not sized and enabled to meet the needs that arise and therefore, it will not compete with normal tractors. This tractor version greatly enhances the possibilities of available resources in performing rude functions in harsh environments with noble purposes.

 [002] It is a dimensioned, structured and equipped tractor to operate in soils, environments and events that are naturally accompanied by difficulties of access and danger, altered by climate changes, social transformations, technological innovations, economic variations to even criminal actions committed by people.

 In addition to performing the exceptional functions at critical locations, it will fulfill those that are typical of common tractor, ie towing and operating equipment and those of a common vehicle, which carries several loads, but both in common locations.

 [004] In view of the variety of functions of this Utility Model, full justification of its causes and effects is necessary.

The special features it presents will not prevent it from passing through spaces already used by conventional tractors and vehicles, but will also facilitate and facilitate mobility and access to difficult areas and environments in order to provide services security, assistance, inspection, logistics, advertising, strategy, study and control, in fields, cities, unhealthy areas, borders, for people, entities and companies. [006] These characteristics may be basic, which are common to all tractors, regardless of the objectives and needs to be supplied, and their own, the conditionals, that will seek to fulfill the specific functions, achieved through the addition of accessories that will change the maneuverability, size and weight according to the result to be obtained, and the medium to be faced. Thus these characteristics will define it as not being the fastest, the heaviest and most powerful since its main function is not only production but also the preservation of people, capital, heritage, animals and justice.

 Nowadays, tractors are available for agricultural, civil construction and road use, but all are for normal, common and habitual situations, that is, already agreed. To do this, they are designed so that they are self-sufficient in order to face heavy activities, which require heavy and heavy equipment, high torque and traction, equipped with engines and reinforced transmissions. However, in irregular areas, they are bypassed operationally.

 This shows that man has until now bothered to create equipment for normal conditions, but it happens that the world has changed a lot, and if he was subject to random tragic events, today he is faced with recurring natural and social disasters, others less prolonged, and others even new to man, thus creating unexpected problems, still unplanned, even because uncontrollable, since human power is often innocuous in front of that exercised by nature. In this way, its action becomes only palliative, if it finds the solution, and will always be determined by the immediatism, and consequently, temporary.

It is left to the man, then, to try to access, to answer, to rescue, and to remove the hit ones from the place of the tragedy, to a safe place, they are human, animals, vegetables or material goods of art, science, education, research, culture, history, economics, administration and capital, which lack preservation and maintenance of existence, health, and life, especially.

 We have for this, a diversity of resources like the trucks, automobiles, ambulances, jeeps, boats, ships, airplanes, trucks, buses and tractors as well. It follows that we have vehicles to spare but to meet only the normal circumstances known, and therefore restricted to the functions for which they were designed.

 Therefore, land vehicles are limited by water, sand, snow, ash, mud; the aquatic ones unable to reach the destination by the interposed lands, and the aerial ones, by places where they can land, being annulled. Otherwise, many of the vehicles are still inaccessible, in many cases, due to their acquisition prices, and the lack of technicians to operate and maintain them due to the high technologies used in their productions.

 In this way, the human being undertakes to acquire and use an enormous amount of resources, equipment and people, in many cases, to obtain limited success, delayed and inefficient, due to the unpredictability of the situations that he is facing, since they were not programmed for this purpose.

[0013] These situations are created by circumstances that become critical because of the inherent difficulties with which they present themselves. They are represented all over the world by floods of rivers, overflows of lakes and dams, torrential rains, ruins of dams and decantation ponds, tidal waves, earthquakes, fires, droughts, snowstorms, avalanches, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, sandstorms, wars and guerrillas, robberies, kidnappings, trafficking, robberies, massacres, sabotage, terrorism, spillage of chemicals and explosion of flammable liquid deposits.

 In addition to these natural or provoked disasters, there are also those permanent or random situations that need to be remedied because they offer inaccessibility and health and life hazards, such as unhealthy, desert, swampy or subject to toxic contamination by dust, dust , smoke, magma, ashes, radioactivity, miasmas, epidemics, or invaded by pests, insects, venomous or fierce animals.

 [0015] In order to meet this variety of situations, there is a need for a tractor, then, to have characteristics that meet the demands.

 For all these reasons, this Utility Model was developed with its own unique qualities to be able to perform tasks and unconventional jobs, according to the requirements of the purposes.

 [0017] First, it has the essential function of reaching places where conventional tractors and vehicles are prevented from traveling and then attending to unconventional functions.

 The characteristics that will enable it are those of lightness, height, versatility and universality, which correspond to the real advantages of maneuverability, functionality and safety, which will distinguish it.

By lightness and height, it can cross dunes, beaches, hills, restingas, deserts, marshes, meadows and swamps. By universality, for example, it can serve as a laboratory, ambulatory, classroom, projection, work, technical assistance, transshipment, shelter, rescue, escape, attack, defense, hunting, tourism, rest and rescue. For example, you can carry an armored bell, a water or fuel tank, a vehicle transport ramp, an extendable bridge, an observation station, a compact plant for the production of concrete or asphalt, planting trees, an emergency generator, a machine gun, a security tower and also to become amphibious to transport rivers, bays, lakes and floods.

 Being a tractor, it has components that they all need, and so it has engine, gearbox, differential, traction on the four or more wheels, brakes, steering, cabin, transmission, but do not go beyond the coincidences since wheels, chassis and all other components will be changed according to the purposes for which they will be useful.

 The differences, then, will be in the changes of what was basic, and in the additions that will be made, so that it can fulfill its unconventional functions. These differences are as follows:

 • traction on four or more wheels is a requirement, as the traffic conditions in the area are not known;

 • the wheels will have shapes and sizes depending on the function that the tractor will perform, as in case it is intended as a shielded car; shall be of iron all four or more, equal, with diameters greater than the possible human statures and idealized widths; their wheels will be of iron and they will only have diametrically toothed rubber shoes to transit in certain terrains, with or without paving, because tires can be pierced, cut or burned, preventing the displacement;

 • the chassis should always be split to improve steering in areas with no defined or even non-existent roads, thus becoming articulated;

• The generation of mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, oil-dynamic and pneumatic energies will all be located at the front of the chassis bipartite, next to the engine and box, and the unconventional activity setting accessories, will be on the back of the chassis.

 [0022] These generalized fittings are thus considered, because for one activity they are needed, while for another they are expendable.

They consist of:

 • day and night shooting camera, air conditioning, high impact guns, radio communications, flamethrowers, pressurized water jet, hydraulic hooks and jaws, loading and unloading platforms for people, animals and utilities, anchoring cables, display night light, booms, amplified light bulb, repellent gas sprinklers, electric power generator, water or fuel tank, metal object tracker, foam cannon and wheels of different diameters and widths, higher than traditional assist in driving on varied terrain.

 Although this tractor will depart from a basic model, the attachments will allow a variation of the constructive forms and a wide versatility to fulfill its intended purposes, as below listed:

 • Emergency care for people affected by floods, windfalls, fires, landslides, in situations and places where access is hindered for conventional vehicles, with loss, damage and risk of life, property and animals, through interference, rescue and transportation to safe places;

• assembly, maintenance and inspection of transmission lines and towers of electricity, wind, solar and communication, as well as pipelines, gas pipelines, air traffic control, fluvial, rail, lake, maritime and riparian forests, water reserves and its conduits; assistance to indigenous populations, quilombolas and migrants, inspection and patrolling of parks and reserves of flora and fauna, as well as tests of pesticides, fertilizers and agricultural irrigation, as well as research and measurement of the energy potential of rivers and waterfalls;

execution, projection and initials of work and activities in peripheral areas, forests, fields, mountains, as in the construction of mills, highways, dams, advanced university campuses, archaeological, mineral, animal and agricultural research;

surveys, forecasts, controls and assistance by civil defense to those affected by disasters, disasters and natural or induced accidents;

training of armed forces, police and strategic maneuvers, weapons testing, ballistics, border control, combating drug and human trafficking, smuggling, migration, land grabbing and pandemic control;

control of exploration, extraction, transport and trade of wood, radioactive minerals, fires, rural confrontations, illegal exploitation of forest reserves, slave labor and invasion of indigenous lands;

geodetic services, surveying and topography, medical and dental assistance to indigenous and rural populations, civil registration, censuses, citizenship exercises, water and food assistance in crisis situations and disasters, such as floods and droughts;

transportation of students, workers, livestock, agricultural inputs, crops, semi-permanent or permanently isolated or struggling locomotion, such as narrow, primary, undefined, winding and improvised roads; social conflicts such as strikes, traffic liberation, robberies, kidnappings, escapes, homicides, rapes, rapes, illegal parties, urban drug trafficking, fugitive recapturing, vandal action, gangs, gangs and gangs. militias, shooting and dismantling of bombs;

armored transport of soldiers and specialists in locating, dismantling and clearing of land mines for later release of areas for human occupation, and animal, conscious and safe;

bodywork equipped with seats, equipment and accessories for sports and leisure practice where there are difficulties to access, with safety guarantees in the observation of the wild life, in the practice of hiking, surfing, rally, safari, free flight, canoeing, skiing, swimming , camping, trails, rape, cavalcade, hunting, fishing and rural tourism;

cleaning services, clearing and maintenance of sides of highways and roads outside cities;

transport and hauling of fishing gear and artifacts on the banks of rivers, lakes, seas and wetlands, such as nets, platforms and even fishery products;

transportation of equipment, actors, directors, employees involved in filming for film and advertising;

transport of goods targeted by burglars;

transport of catwalks and modular bridges for the rescue and restoration of traffic of vehicles and people in areas affected by road disruptions and destruction of bridges and manholes thereof;

flood and flood drainage unit, equipped with a high volumetric water pump; • exclusive unit for electric power generation;

 • squeaking, loading and unloading of products, scrap, garbage, demolition and accident rest in restricted areas;

 • armored transport of explosives, artifacts resulting from social and terrorist conflicts, and chemical and polluting products;

 • armored transport of securities and documents, removal of criminals, psychopaths, prisoners and soldiers to confrontation regions; transport, assistance, rescue and amphibious vehicle access in flooded or naturally flooded areas such as rivers, lakes, seas, dams and mangroves;

 • a mobile station for the control, observation or traffic safety, frontier, surveillance, police, meteorological, permanent or temporary communications.

 For a better understanding of the Utility Model developed, a detailed description of the figures accompanying this process is needed, where:

 Figure 1 shows the basic tractor with options to be used for various purposes, provided that some accessories are suppressed or others added, according to the side view and below, the front and the left being the rear, on the left;

 Figure 2 is a top view of Figure 1;

 Figure 3 shows an example of a tractor of the specific type, intended for the transport of liquids;

Figure 4 shows an example of a specific tractor, intended for producing mortars and pumping them for consumption; Figure 5 shows the basic type of wheel, mounted, even with only one of the shoes, although when the wheel is used, they will be distributed all the way around;

 Figure 6 shows one of several rubber shoes, which will be attached to the wheels;

 Figure 7 shows the steel core of the shoe;

 Figure 8 shows the union plates of the wheels;

 Figure 9 shows the spokes of the wheel;

 Figure 10 shows the counterweight pieces;

 Figure 11 shows the baffle;

 Figure 12 shows the rudder.

 [0037] With respect to the above figures, we can verify:

 Figure 1 shows that the tractor is always, in all types, composed of two cells, the front (A) as the one of command, in which the operator and the driver will be found, or even the single person to perform the two tasks, and in the back cell (B), the work, the function-finishers and the equipment-ends; the two cells, being separated, will be solidified through the joint (J) which, as the name says, will allow the tractor to be articulated, to improve maneuverability, since all functions are performed in difficult and often unforeseen spaces and terrains ; the traction will always be in the front with transmission to the rear, making the tractor a device with traction in the four or more wheels (C).

The engine (D) with its shielding cap (E), an electric or hydraulic winch (F), the deflector (G), four hydraulic stabilizing cylinders (H), the chassis (D) I), the keel (Q), the stops (M), the drag hooks (L), the intercell plate (P), and the rotating focus (R).

 In the rear cell there will be a periscope (T) the look-outs (S), the rudder (K), the suspension winch (N), as well as in the front, the winches and the tow winches.

 Between the front and rear cells there is a space that apart from separating them, houses the joint (J) and the space, there is a metallic cover, here denominated as intercellular plate (P) with a siren (O); it, like the front and rear structures, should be metallic, in order to maintain the effect created by the "Faraday Cage", which will rid the occupants of electric discharges from lightning strikes and falling electric wires, in addition to rainfall , storms, explosives and projectiles; it will have doors to both sides in order to give access to the two cells, which in turn will also have doors opening to the same existing space, where the joint is located; in this way conductors and conductors can move from one cell to another, without however being exposed to the outside.

 [0042] When the tractor is destined for the service of transport of valuables, weapons, explosives, where there may be armed confrontations anyway, its cells must be constructed of special steel for shielding, in the correct thickness, able to withstand even high projectiles gauges, in addition to the edges being rounded, so that these same projectiles fired against the tractor, are diverted by the consequent tangency of the same. Thus, without the possibility of being transpassed the plates of the same tractor, there is no compromise of the life of the occupants and there is preservation of the loads transported.

[0043] For the understanding of the function of each accessory, the details are: the shielding cap (E) will prevent the tractor motor from being hit by shot, not canceling its operation; the winch (F) will anchor or drag vehicles, as well as the tractor itself; the deflector (G) will disperse to the sides obstacles that may prevent the tractor from passing and changing; the keel (Q), will increase the stability, steering and fluidity of the amphibian type tractor when it is in the water; the drag hooks (L) will serve for plastering of salvage and anchorage of the tractor; the rubber bumper stops (M), to cushion the shocks occurred by the tractor; the suspension winch (N) for lifting or towing vehicles prevented from moving; (S) for interior illumination, air intake and opening for firing with firearms; the (R) focus will be used as a rotating lighting flashlight; the siren (O) for alarm and approach warning; the four hydraulic cylinders (H), to provide leveling and stabilization of the tractor on uneven terrain, and the rudder (K) for tractor steering in the water. The rudder will be fixed because the amphibious tractor has hydraulic steering driven by a hydraulic cylinder on each side of the working cell, the rear, which requires it to move both on the right and left. The front traction will be transmitted to the rear axle through the spindle and differential. The keel and rudder will only be used on the amphibious tractor.

Depending on the function that the tractor will perform, the rear part of the working cell will have accessories in order to make it possible for one of its purposes to travel through dry or marshy, arid or aquatic, flat or inclined terrain , to transport, to lead, to rescue, to protect, to protect, to work, to administer, to assure, to remedy, to avoid, to redeem, to release, to reassure, to rest, to comfort, to defend, to attack and to preserve people, values, animals, objects, explosives, armaments, and artistic patrimony , cultural, research, study, projection and maintenance. Figure 2 shows a top view of the chassis, cells and components of Figure 1.

 Figure 3 shows another conception of the tractor, now a specific type that may have other uses, peaceful such as solidarity, service, relief, aftermath, less confrontation and those carried out by the amphibian type, in addition to end activities sports, leisure, scientific, economic, social and as an example in this figure, the transport of liquids.

 Figure 4 shows the specific type tractor in order to be used for mixing, transporting and pumping masses for civil construction, as well as for other innumerable purposes, in addition to this, which serves as an example of normal utilities.

 Figure 5 shows a basic wheel (A), used in the tractor, with a shoe mounted (figure 6), and in the cross-sectional side view, the union plates of figure 8, respectively the inner plates X1 and the outer ones X2, the inner one being connected by screws to the wheel hub of the tractor; the tangential holes U will have the function of receiving the screws W, which will support the counterweights Z, both of figure 7; moreover, the connecting plates will serve to connect the radii of figure 9 to the whole wheel assembly; the four or more wheels shall be the same, tall, without tires, and of varying widths according to purpose.

Figure 6 shows the wheel shoe with the holes Y1 where screws will connect it to the wheel of Figure 5; these shoes will be endowed with a steel soul, in order to keep them more rigid, since they will be constructed in rubber, so as not to produce unpleasant sounds, nor to produce havoc on the pavement, wherever they travel; in swampy and barren lands they will be excused. Figure 7 shows the screw W and counterweight Z, which will be attached, connected to the wheel, in the hole U of Figure 5, when necessary, to give more weight or lightness or tractor, as the situation so requires.

 Figure 8 shows the three plates, the outer plates X2 and the inner X1 of the wheels, the inner one locking the wheel to the wheel hub of the tractor and both are responsible for the total assembly of the same wheel, because they come together through the radii of figure 9.

 Figure 9 shows the wheel radius, which, in addition to joining the wheel plates (Figure 8), has the function of rowing in the water; on the outside, the shoes of figure 6 are fixed by means of screws.

 Figure 10 shows the steel core that is located inside the shoe (Figure 6), in order to realize the fixation of the same shoe to the wheel, because the shoe is made of rubber; in this way the fastening screws will have direct contact only with it and never with the rubber of the shoe.

 Figure 11 shows the baffle corresponding to a reinforced plate which will serve to move to the side of the tractor, any obstacle that opposes the movement of the tractor, as well as water, when the same tractor is operating in floods, to decrease the displacement resistance and increase fluidity in the liquid medium.

 [0055] Figure 12 shows the rudder attached after the rear wheel on the amphibious tractor in continuity to the keel, so that the use can be done in liquid medium; although the rudder is fixed, it will have its utility legitimized, since the direction of the tractor is realized hydraulically, by the action of two cylinders, one on each side of the chassis, displacing it from one side to the other, since the articulation allows it .

[0056] In addition to exposing the characteristics of the figures, it is important to highlight details such as: • to increase the traction of the amphibious type tractor, an axle driven by electric, hydraulic or explosion motor can be installed with propellers;

 • to accelerate the movement of the tractor to the place of use, it can be transported on a platform-trailer, provided that the total height is allowed and possible.

Claims

CLAIM  1 . CONVERSIBLE TRACTOR FOR USE IN ANOMALATED CONDITIONS was developed intentionally, since traditional tractors only work in the normal areas of agriculture, construction and road, and thus, characterized by being composed of two cells (fig 1), the front (A), (B), both of steel, with or without shielding, for protection by the effect of the "Faraday cage", joined by a joint (J), the function and shape of the front cell being constant , and convertible to rear, to serve various purposes, as figs. 3 and 4, suitable for abnormal conditions, with four or more wheels, equal, high and various widths, as required, without tires, of iron (fig 5), with or without rubber shoes (fig 6), the spokes (Figure 9), will be oars, with keel (Q) and rudder (Figure 12) in the amphibian type, and if necessary, will have counterweights (Figure 10), baffle (Figure 11), and necessarily, (fig 2), one for each cell, with steering acting only at the rear, through two hydraulic cylinders, one for each side, plus the accessories needed to perform the specific function desired.