Patent attributes
The invention concerns an amphibious vehicle (100) comprising:a chassis (102) having a housing (106a) having an opening (202) having edges,for said housing (106a), a handling device (108a) having a fixed part (210) fixed to the chassis (102) and a movable part (104a) mounted so as to be able to move on the fixed part (210) and comprising among other things a wheel (104a), the movable part (104a) being able to move between a running position wherein the wheel (104a) is outside the housing (106a), and a retracted position wherein the wheel (104a) is in the housing (106a), anda hatch system (204) having a hatch (206), designed to adopt alternately an open position in which it does not close off the opening (202) or a closed position in which it comes into abutment against the edges of the opening (202) and closes it off at least partly,the movable part (104a) being designed to be moved into a locking position in which a locking element (104a) of the movable part (104a) locks the hatch (206) in the closed position by abutment thereof against the hatch (206).
