In power and material intensity, manufacturability, erection and operation simplicity, transportability and storage convenience tore products in most cases have substantive advantages over existing classic analogs, especially when used under extreme conditions.

The unique properties of cylindrical ring shells produced from modern high-strength materials on the basis of rubber, high-strength film and fabric materials and their compositions are used in a broad range of projects including widely used devices and mechanisms, providing them with new qualities as compared with their analogs.

Thus, as compared with its analogs (a wheel, a track) the propulsion device of the transport vehicle (an operating prototype is shown on the photo), made on the basis of tore (cylindrical ring) technologies has:

• a greater contact with the ground contact surface ;
• a low specific pressure on the ground contact surface (less than 0.1 kg/cm²);
• a low fluid media pressure in the tore shell;
• a great possibility for changing the shell contact area with the ground contact surface and for adjusting the plat form hoist height (i. e. the propulsion device of the transport vehicle will simultaneously be a rigging device;
• a high negotiability in overcoming obstacles and batters;
• a high weight-capacity;
• high cushioning and damping capabilities;
• low weight and structural simplicity.

From the point of view of their use in general-purpose devices and machines tore technologies are universal, but there are technical fields where employment of tore technologies can provide a solution to a strategic task.

These fields are:

• “ microelectronics (cluster equipment, transport systems), construction (rapid methods of constructing buildings, bridges, dams), transportation (no damage to soil, mobility, high negotiability, simplicity of operation);
• non-traditional power supply (tidal, wave, etc.), drop-hammer equipment, storage places and multifunctional containers for liquids and bulk cargoes, pump-and-compressor equipment.

At present, the following have been developed:

• original devices and machines ensuring a qualitatively new level for performing necessary functions in comparison to existing machines; for example, storage for various wastes, a transport-and-rigging device for heavy loads, etc.;
• ways of transforming energy of fluid media into other kinds of energy (kinetic, electric, mechanical) and devices for their implementation;
• procedures, diagnostic and testing beds for determining characteristics of tore shells, reflecting conditions of their functioning in devices and machines; for example, resistance to a permanently changing bend;
• diagrams of functioning of various units of cluster equipment, ensuring manipulations with silicium plates: linear manipulators, gate ways, closures, accumulators, etc.; elements of the cassette-track system for moving containers with silicium plates; elements of the system for moving reactive liquids, etc.; methods for investigating and testing materials designed for elastic shells, and for evaluating their impact on technological space.

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