Amphibious pumping vehicle
AssigneeNuhn Industries Ltd.
InventorIan Nuhn
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Abstract
An amphibious pumping vehicle comprising: a floatable vehicle body; ground engaging propulsion structure configured to raise and lower relative to the vehicle body; a fluid pump; a first fluid nozzle configured to direct fluid through the air, the fluid nozzle connected by a fluid conduit to the fluid pump; and, a power source configured to provide power to both the ground engaging propulsion structure and the fluid pump. The vehicle is particularly well suited to pumping and recirculating fluid within manure lagoons and is able to be driven up out of the lagoon when the lagoon level has been lowered.
Claims21
An amphibious pumping vehicle comprising:
- a floatable vehicle body;
- ground engaging propulsion structure configured to raise and lower relative to the vehicle body;
- a fluid pump;
- a first fluid nozzle configured to direct fluid through the air, the fluid nozzle connected by a fluid conduit to the fluid pump;
- and,
- a power source configured to provide power to both the ground engaging propulsion structure and the fluid pump, the power source connected to a hydraulic pump by a mechanical drive and connected to the fluid pump by the mechanical drive.
An amphibious pumping vehicle comprising:
- a floatable vehicle body;
- ground engaging propulsion structure;
- a fluid pump;
- a first fluid nozzle configured to direct fluid through the air, the fluid nozzle connected by a fluid conduit to the fluid pump;
- a power source configured to provide power to both the ground engaging propulsion structure and the fluid pump;
- and,
- structure configured to raise and lower the pump relative to the floatable vehicle body.
An amphibious pumping vehicle comprising:
- a floatable vehicle body;
- ground engaging propulsion structure configured to raise and lower relative to the vehicle body;
- a fluid pump comprising a pump housing for immersion within the fluid, the pump housing comprising a bottom fluid inlet and at least two tangential fluid outlets;
- a first fluid nozzle connected by a fluid conduit to the fluid pump;
- and,
- a power source configured to provide power to both the ground engaging propulsion structure and the fluid pump.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.