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US 12,090,803 B2Granted
Amphibious vehicle
AssigneeBazooka-Farmstar, LLC
InventorsPhillip Minino, Jeffery Huber, Matthew Hirsch, Jason Albright
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Abstract
An amphibious vehicle having a frame that includes a plurality of floatable members. Mounted to the frame is one or more power sources. Also mounted to the frame and connected to the power source are a plurality of propellers with each of the plurality of propellers having a thrust vector configured to be adjusted to provide agitation and propulsion. In addition, mounted to the frame are a plurality of ground engaging devices and one or more pumps.
Claims6
An amphibious vehicle configured for agitation of manure lagoon, comprising:
- a frame defining a central axis and having one or more floatable members;
- four wheels positioned about the central axis of the frame for engaging a ground;
- a power source mounted to the frame the power source configured to provide power to the wheels;
- a conduit;
- and
- a propeller coupled to the frame at the central axis between two of the four wheels;
- wherein the propeller is connected to the power source;
- wherein the propeller is oriented vertically to provide a thrust vector in a generally vertical direction for the agitation of manure in the manure lagoon;
- an outlet defined by the conduit or a nozzle;
- wherein the outlet is positioned above a surface of the manure lagoon to provide a stream of liquid manure adjacent to the agitation provided by the propeller;
- and
- wherein the conduit is aimable to change a direction of the stream of liquid manure.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.