Amphibious pumping vehicle
AssigneeNuhn Industries Ltd.
InventorIan Nuhn
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Abstract
An amphibious vehicle has a floatable vehicle body; ground engaging propulsion structure having a plurality of ground engaging elements powered by a hydraulic motor; a fluid pump for pumping liquid manure; a power source connected to a hydraulic pump and configured to provide power to both the ground engaging propulsion structure and the fluid pump; and, remote control structure for controlling the ground engaging propulsion structure and a flow of fluid from the fluid pump. The speed and/or direction of the vehicle is remotely controllable by an operator remote from the vehicle when the vehicle is ground engaging and when the vehicle is floating.
Claims21
An amphibious vehicle comprising:
- a floatable vehicle body;
- ground engaging propulsion structure comprising a plurality of ground engaging elements powered by a hydraulic motor;
- a fluid pump for pumping liquid manure;
- a power source connected to a hydraulic pump, the power source configured to provide power to both the ground engaging propulsion structure and the fluid pump;
- and,
- a wireless remote control configured to enable an operator who is remote from the vehicle to:
- (1) control the ground engaging propulsion structure;
- (2) control a flow of liquid manure from the fluid pump;
- (3) control at least one of the speed and direction of the vehicle when the vehicle is ground engaging;
- and, (4) control at least one of the speed and direction of the vehicle when the vehicle is floating.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.