Conveyor of the teleferic kind with carrying cable

Claim 2

A suspended vehicle support system of the rope-way kind comprisng a carrying cable fixed on pylons and provided at intervals along its length with hangers carrying at their lower ends a travelling track which comprises two tubular guides disposed in the same vertical plane, at least along the aligned sections of the system, and G-shaped brackets respectively fixed on said guides by their ends and fastened to the hangers which are fixed to the carrying cable; which track, between successive pylons, forms with said cable and hangers a catenary suspension with rigidity girder which provides a resistance to lateral movement of the suspended vehicle and substantially eliminates the sensitivity of the carrying cable to violent winds.

Claim 3

A vehicle support system as claimed in claim 1 wherein the guides are formed by tubular sections interconnected by pins inserted in adjoining sections along straight portions of the system.

Claim 4

A vehicle support system as claimed in claim 2, wherein the pins are formed by tubular elements having a resistant moment equal to that of the guide and are frictionally mounted in the tubes, said tubular elements having a length that is slightly less than the distance separating adjacent fixing bolts across the section junction.

Claim 5

A vehicle support system as claimed in claim 2, wherein plumb with the pin the two tubular sections are cut-away along a vertical diametrical plane at their ends and adjacent sections are overlaid together.

Claim 6

A vehicle support system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the guides are formed by tubular sections welded together along curved portions of the system.

Claim 7

A vehicle support system of the rope-way kind comprising a carrying cable fixed on pylons and provided at internals along its length with hangers carrying at their lower ends a travelling track for suspended vehicles, which track between successive pylons forms with said cable and hangers a catenary suspension with rigidity girder, which provides a resistance to lateral movement of the suspended vehicle and substantially eliminates the sensitivity of the carrying cable to violent winds, including at least one non-reversible points of a main pair of guides and two pairs of branch guides, the main pair being movable between the first and second pairs, slidable pins provided in the ends of the pair of main guides for engaging with either pair of branch guides, and crank means which when moved to a first position disengages the pine from the first pair of branch guides, when moved to a second position displaces the pair of main guides to the second pair of branch guides and when moved to a third position engages the pins with the second branch pair of branch guides.

Claim 8

A vehicle support system of the rope-way kind comprising a carrying cable fixed on pylons and provided at internals along its length with hangers carrying at their lower ends a travelling track for suspended vehicles, which track between successive pylons forms with said cable and hangers a catenary suspension with rigidity girder, which provides a resistance to lateral movement of the suspended vehicle and substantially eliminates the sensitivity of the carrying cable to violent winds, including at least one non-reversible points of a main pair of guides and two pairs of branch guides, the main pair being movable between the first and second pairs, slidable pins provided in the ends of the pair of main guides for engaging with either pair of branch guides, and crank means which when moved to a first position disengages the pine from the first pair of branch guides, when moved to a second position displaces the pair of main guides to the second pair of branch guides and when moved to a third position engages the pins with the second branch pair of branch guides.

Claim 9

A vehicle support system of the rope-way kind comprising a carrying cable fixed on pylons and provided at intervals along its length with hangers carrying at their lower ends a travelling track for suspended vehicles, which track between successive pylons forms with said cable and hangers a catenary suspension with rigidity girder, which provides a resistance to lateral movement of the suspended vehicle and substantially eliminates the sensitivity of the carrying cable to violent winds, including at least one reversible points comprising for each branch track, from the end of said track Forming part of the points, an upper guide to a control rod and means for actuating said control rod when a vehicle arrives along a branch track not connected to the main track.

Claim 10

A vehicle support system of the rope-way kind comprising a carrying cable fixed on pylons and provided at intervals along its length with hangers carrying at their lower ends a travelling track for suspended vehicles, which track between successive pylons forms with said cable and hangers a catenary suspension with rigidity girder, which provides a resistance to lateral movement of the suspended vehicle and substantially eliminates the sensitivity of the carrying cable to violent winds, including at least one reversible points comprising for each branch track, from the end of said track Forming part of the points, an upper guide to a control rod and means for actuating said control rod when a vehicle arrives along a branch track not connected to the main track.

Claim 11

A vehicle support system as claimed in claim 7, wherein each lever is an L-shaped lever centrally articulated on a rigid fixture and the upper arm of which is articulated to the control rod while its lower arm is connected to the upper movable guide by means of a rod, the lengths of the lower arms of the L-shaped levers decreasing progressively from the end of the branch track forming part of the points while the length of the upper arms and rods remains constant.

Claim 12

A vehicle support system as claimed in claim 7, wherein the means for actuating the control rod comprises a rocker-arm connected to the movable upper guides of the two branch tracks of the points and means for mechanically pivoting said rocker-arm, said rocker-arm being further automatically pivoted for throwing over the points by the rolling device of a vehicle arriving on the branch track which is not connected by said points.

Claim 13

A vehicle support as claimed in claim 9, including a vehicle having a support wheel on the first guide and a guide wheel on the second guide.

Claim 14

A vehicle support system as claimed in claim 10, wherein the travelling track is doubled and comprises four guides arranged in pairs in parallel vertical planes and Omega -shaped brackets interconnecting said guides and fastened to the hangers.

Claim 15

A vehicle support system of the rope-way kind comprising a carrying cable fixed on pylons and provided at intervals along its length with hangers carrying at their lower ends a travelling track for suspended vehicles, which track between successive pylons forms with said cable and hangers a catenary suspension with rigidity girder, which provides a resistance to lateral movement of the suspended vehicle and substantially eliminates the sensitivity of the carrying cable to violent winds, the travelling track forming a Vierendeel beam and comprises two tubular guides disposed in the same vertical plane, at least along the aligned sections of the system, and G-shaped brackets respectivley fixed at regular intervals on said guides by their ends and fastened to the hangers which are fixed at the same regular intervals to the carrying cable, wherein each G-shaped bracket is provided with gutter-shaped sleeves for supporting the guides and each tubular guide is provided with slots into which an elongate head of a fixing bolt is inserted for bolting the guides to the sleeves, the bolt being rotated 90*after insertion through the slot.

Claim 16

A vehicle support system of the rope-way kind comprising a carrying cable fixed on pylons and provided at intervals along its length with hangers carrying at their lower ends a travelling track for suspended vehicles, which track between successive pylons forms with said cable and hangers a catenary suspension with rigidity girder, which provides a resistance to lateral movement of the suspended vehicle and substantially eliminates the sensitivity of the carrying cable to violent winds, the travelling track forming a Vierendeel beam and comprises two tubular guides disposed in the same vertical plane, at least along the aligned sections of the system, and G-shaped brackets respectivley fixed at regular intervals on said guides by their ends and fastened to the hangers which are fixed at the same regular intervals to the carrying cable, wherein each G-shaped bracket is provided with gutter-shaped sleeves for supporting the guides and each tubular guide is provided with slots into which an elongate head of a fixing bolt is inserted for bolting the guides to the sleeves, the bolt being rotated 90*after insertion through the slot.