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James H


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Rimailho Caterpillar Patent, 1917
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Stumbled across this. Sorry if old news.

http://www.google.com/patents?id=MANgAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4&source=gbs_overview_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Will have to read it a few times to grasp what exactly its advantages are.



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I read it as electric selfpowered, demountable, track units for equipment that may need moving across poor surfaces. Clever idea.

 

He seems to have been a busy chap. 

http://www.boliven.com/patents/search?q=inventor:(%22EMILE+RIMAILHO%22) 



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LincolnTanker wrote:

electric selfpowered, demountable, track units for equipment that may need moving across poor surfaces.

 That's the conclusion I eventually arrived at. He also designed an impressive SPG. Still trying to fathom out what his Road Train did.



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Hi James, before my brain went numb reading the description I got the impression that there was one or more genorator trucks that provided power to motors, electric or hydraulic, in the trailers.

Here is a link to one of the 1960s Land Trains that worked on that principle.

http://www.roadtransport.com/blogs/big-lorry-blog/2010/10/extreme-machines-on-biglorrybl.html



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Rimailho worked for St Chamond - the SPG patent simply looks like the outline for the family of SPGs St Chamond actually built, which had separate (but linked) motor carriage and generator carriage, and carried guns ranging from the 194mm (long-range) to 220mm to 280mm (howitzer or mortar).

The rather tediously described caterpillar unit is quite similar in principle to several drawings at Bovington of British concepts for 'dismantlable tanks' (dated early 1917) and associated petrol-electric transmissions in which the IC generating engine, generator and electric motor are housed entirely within the track-frames, thus facilitating ease of swapping around (presumably for transport and perhaps to speed up getting damaged/worn-out tanks back in the field during maintenance/repair).



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