Protective firefighting vehicle
AssigneeKnud Overlach
InventorsKnud Overlach, Bernhard Bartscher
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Abstract
A protective firefighting vehicle comprising a chassis conceived for heavy loads, a driving gear for rough terrain and a tank mounted on the chassis for receiving liquids such as water or fire-extinguishing agents or the like. The tank is divided in at least two chambers via at least one bulkhead-like partition. Provision is made in this connection that at least one of the chambers of the tank can be sealed off in a liquid-tight manner against at least one other chamber of the tank in order to permit the transport of persons in the at least one sealable chamber.
Claims14
A protective fire-fighting vehicle, comprising:
- a chassis adapted to bear heavy loads;
- a driving gear, coupled to said chassis and suited for rough terrain, comprising:
- at least two spaced apart vehicle tracks;
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- a conventional military tank engine disposed in a rear area of the protective fire-fighting vehicle, wherein said conventional military tank engine drives said at least two tank vehicle tracks;
- a tank mounted on said chassis and having a back end, four side walls and a top;
- at least one bulkhead-like partition disposed in said tank for dividing said tank into at least two chambers;
- wherein at least one of said at least two chambers is sealed off from another of said at least two chambers, permitting the transport of persons in one of said at least two chambers and liquids in another of said at least two chambers.
A protective fire-fighting vehicle comprising:
- a chassis adapted to bear heavy loads and shaped as an armored tub;
- a driving gear, coupled to said chassis and suited for rough terrain, comprising:
- at least two tank vehicle tracks;
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- a conventional military tank engine disposed in a rear area of the protective fire fighting vehicle, wherein said conventional military tank engine drives said at least two tank vehicle tracks;
- a container tank mounted on said chassis, wherein said container tank has a back end, four side walls and a top, and wherein said container tank comprises at least one passage disposed in one of said four side walls and above said chassis permitting persons to climb into and exit from said container tank;
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- at least one door sealing said at least one passage in said container tank.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.