81 |
PASSENGER CABLE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM |
US15710155 |
2017-09-20 |
US20180079431A1 |
2018-03-22 |
Nikolaus Erharter; Denis Ribot |
A passenger cable transportation system, the cable system comprising: at least one cabin for transporting passengers; at least one station for passengers boarding and landing from the cabin; two lateral guides facing each other and configured to guide the cabin into the station along an advancing direction, wherein there is a clearance between the lateral guides and the cabin; and at least one blocking device configured to block the cabin in relation to the lateral guides at least along a direction transversal to the advancing direction level with at least one part of the station. |
82 |
System for transporting people |
US14763569 |
2014-10-16 |
US09688289B2 |
2017-06-27 |
Peter Luger; Johannes Moritzhuber; Gerd Duer |
A transport system has at least one hauling cable to which a cableway vehicle formed with running gear and a vehicle cab can be coupled. Alternatively, the system has a carrying cable or a track on which a cableway vehicle formed with running gear and a cab can be moved by a traction cable. The section with the hauling cable or carrying cable, or the track, is adjoined by a further track section along which a carrying vehicle for the cableway vehicle can be moved. The carrying vehicle has a drive motor. The running gear of the cableway vehicle runs onto and attaches to the carrying vehicle, whereupon the cableway vehicle is movable along the adjoining track by the carrying vehicle. |
83 |
ZIP LINE ASSEMBLY AND TROLLEY THEREFORE |
US15335063 |
2016-10-26 |
US20170120935A1 |
2017-05-04 |
Lloyd W. Reese; James A. Hughes |
A zip line includes a substantially rigid track supported above a ground surface by a plurality of supports, a trolley which moves along the track, and a rider support suspended from the trolley. The track is comprised of a plurality of track segments connected together such that adjacent track segments have substantially no freedom of movement relative to each other, and such that adjacent track segments present a substantially smooth, continuous, and uninterrupted surface. The track includes a run and a flange extending upwardly from the run. The trolley comprises a frame having upper wheel mounts to which first and second upper wheels are rotatably mounted. The first upper wheels are oriented such that they engage an upper surface of the track run and the second upper wheels are oriented such that they will engage the track flange upon rotational movement of the trolley relative the track run. |
84 |
Cable Car System For Transporting People |
US15311956 |
2015-05-18 |
US20170120933A1 |
2017-05-04 |
JOHANNES MORITZHUBER; MARKUS BECK; PETER LUGER |
A cable car system for transporting people includes at least one vehicle to be coupled along a line to a transport cable, to be moved by the cable in stations and to be moved past at least one embarkation or disembarkation area in which passengers board or leave the vehicle. A conveyor is provided in the embarkation or disembarkation area. A screen is provided for the passengers between the motion path of the vehicle and the embarkation and disembarkation area, to protect the passengers against climatic and acoustic conditions prevailing outside the station building. The screen has at least one opening through which the passengers move to the at least one vehicle or to the disembarkation area. The conveyor is located within the opening and extends only over a part of the length of the opening in the motion direction of the vehicle. |
85 |
CABLE CAR SYSTEM |
US15306250 |
2015-05-07 |
US20170043792A1 |
2017-02-16 |
KURT SCHERTLER; JOHANNES MORITZHUBER |
A cable car system has vehicles which are coupled to a conveying cable between stations. The vehicles are decoupled from the conveying cable in the stations and are moved through the stations along guide rails. The vehicles are formed with current collectors and the stations have associated power rails. In at least one of the vehicles there is located a circuit with at least one electrical load which is supplied with electrical energy via the current collector and the power rails. At least one second circuit with at least one further electrical load is located in at least one vehicle. The second circuit is supplied with electrical energy via a single further current collector and a power rail assigned thereto. The two circuits are connected to a common current collector to which a single power rail is assigned. |
86 |
Zip line attraction and methods |
US14134547 |
2013-12-19 |
US09415780B2 |
2016-08-16 |
Steven R. Gustafson |
A zip line attraction and methods are provided. The zip line attraction includes a tower and a stopping point. One or more cables extend between the tower and the stopping point. At least one end of the cable can change in elevation to allow users to travel from the tower to the stopping point, and back to the tower from the stopping point without disconnecting from the cable. |
87 |
Human flying apparatus |
US14790830 |
2015-07-02 |
US09393496B2 |
2016-07-19 |
Elizabeth Wales Burroughs |
The lever, wheel and axle, pulley, wedge, screw, and inclined plane are the six Simple Machines of the Classical era. Over 2000 years ago a man from Syracuse used them to create a way to move water against the pull of gravity. The Archimedes' screw is still a standard for simple efficiency. In homage to those early machines and the dreamers who built them, the Human Flying Apparatus provides a carriage, wheels and an axle, a harness, and a braking and steering_system and, in specific embodiments, thrusters, all suspended from a single rail, which allows a human being to soar in simulated flight that is_safe, sustained, and suitable for all skill levels.“For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return.” Leonardo Da Vinci |
88 |
Human Flying Apparatus |
US14790830 |
2015-07-02 |
US20160144869A1 |
2016-05-26 |
Elizabeth Wales Burroughs |
The lever, wheel and axle, pulley, wedge, screw, and inclined plane are the six Simple Machines of the Classical era. Over 2000 years ago a man from Syracuse used them to create a way to move water against the pull of gravity. The Archimedes' screw is still a standard for simple efficiency. In homage to those early machines and the dreamers who built them, the Human Flying Apparatus provides a carriage, wheels and an axle, a harness, and a braking and steering_system and, in specific embodiments, thrusters, all suspended from a single rail, which allows a human being to soar in simulated flight that is_safe, sustained, and suitable for all skill levels.“For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return.” Leonardo Da Vinci |
89 |
SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING PEOPLE |
US14763569 |
2014-10-16 |
US20160016593A1 |
2016-01-21 |
PETER LUGER; JOHANNES MORITZHUBER; GERD DUER |
A transport system has at least one hauling cable to which a cableway vehicle formed with running gear and a vehicle cab can be coupled. Alternatively, the system has a carrying cable or a track on which a cableway vehicle formed with running gear and a cab can be moved by a traction cable. The section with the hauling cable or carrying cable, or the track, is adjoined by a further track section along which a carrying vehicle for the cableway vehicle can be moved. The carrying vehicle has a drive motor. The running gear of the cableway vehicle runs onto and attaches to the carrying vehicle, whereupon the cableway vehicle is movable along the adjoining track by the carrying vehicle. |
90 |
Human flying apparatus |
US14552112 |
2014-11-24 |
US09120023B1 |
2015-09-01 |
Elizabeth Wales Burroughs |
The lever, wheel and axle, pulley, wedge, screw, and inclined plane are the six Simple Machines of the Classical era. Over 2000 years ago a man from Syracuse used them to create a way to move water against the pull of gravity. The Archimedes' screw is still a standard for simple efficiency. In homage to those early machines and the dreamers who built them, the Human Flying Apparatus provides a carriage, wheels and an axle, a harness, and a braking and steering system and, in specific embodiments, thrusters, all suspended from a single rail, which allows a human being to soar in simulated flight that is safe, sustained, and suitable for all skill levels.“For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you long to return.” -Leonardo Da Vinci |
91 |
Cable transportation system switch |
US14193863 |
2014-02-28 |
US09114811B2 |
2015-08-25 |
Giuseppe Conte; Franco Coco |
A switch for a cable transportation system has a movable guide with one degree of freedom, along an operating plane, between two designated or given positions; and an actuating assembly having a rotary actuator, and a crank which is rotated by the rotary actuator between two limit stops about an axis of rotation perpendicular to the operating plane, and is connected to the movable guide in such a manner as to define a mechanism having two stable positions corresponding to the designated or given positions of the movable guide when the crank is in the limit stop positions. |
92 |
Trolley Braking System |
US13792133 |
2013-03-10 |
US20130239843A1 |
2013-09-19 |
Daniel Blair Boren; Mira De Avila-Shin; David B. Golay; Nickolaus W. Hill; Samuel D. Meyer; Ilona K. Phipps-Morgan |
A trolley braking system for smoothly reducing the speed of a rider supported by a harness on a cable or rope approaching a landing platform comprises a vessel containing a fluid of selected viscosity and having a turbine rotatably mounted on a shaft in the interior. A braking cable is secured to a reel on the turbine shaft outside the cylinder and routed through a pulley to a braking block, which is slidably mounted on the cable between the trolley and the landing platform. The system may also may also include turbine blades of adjustable dimensions, so that the braking force may be controlled. The system may also include a counterweight suspended by a retraction cable which is coupled to the turbine shaft to rewind the braking cable on the reel for repeated use. |
93 |
DEVICE AND METHOD FOR MEASURING THE SPEED OF A HAULAGE CABLE OF A CABLEWAY, IN PARTICULAR A CHAIRLIFT OR A CABLE CAR |
US13773949 |
2013-02-22 |
US20130213133A1 |
2013-08-22 |
Olivier BERTOLAMI |
Device for measuring a haulage cable of a cableway, in particular a chairlift or a cable car, the haulage cable including marks, and the device including first and second sensors configured to transmit respectively first and second information signals relative to the presence of the marks, the second sensor being located at a reference distance from the first sensor, a first determination device configured to determine a phase shift between the first and second information signals and a second determination device for determining a speed information of the haulage cable from the determined phase shift and the reference distance. |
94 |
Hoisting device of a rope section having a lifting element with two shells assembled by sliding |
US12318459 |
2008-12-30 |
US20090189131A1 |
2009-07-30 |
Paul Brun; Jean Souchal |
A hoisting device of a section of a rope for a mechanical ski-lift installation comprises on the one hand a lifting element designed to be positioned pressing against the rope and on the other hand means for moving the lifting element in a first direction. The lifting element is formed by a sleeve having a main axis oriented in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, designed to be positioned around the rope section. The sleeve comprises a top shell having connection means connecting with the means for moving, a bottom shell having a support dish designed to be positioned pressing underneath said rope section, the two shells comprising complementary guiding elements for assembly by sliding in the second direction, and securing means disabling sliding between the two shells after assembly. |
95 |
Method for heating a gondola of a cableway system, a gondola suitable therefor and a cableway system |
US11226984 |
2005-09-15 |
US20060060104A1 |
2006-03-23 |
Christoph Hinteregger |
A method for heating a gondola of a cableway system and a gondola that is suitable for carrying out the process, as well as a cableway system with gondolas of the type. In order to increase passengers' comfort when being conveyed, the floor or parts of the floor is or are heated by an electrical heating device integrated in the floor in particular while the gondola is situated in a station of the cableway system. |
96 |
Ski lift radio |
US09863602 |
2001-05-24 |
US06453824B1 |
2002-09-24 |
Richard Dobbins |
According to this invention, a ski lift radio is provided whereby data are stored electronically and converted to an audio signal to be played by the radio and wherein the system is charged by means of an inductive charge receptor associated with the radio which is charged by means of a stationary inductive charger. |
97 |
Side-loading suspension frame and ladder assembly for maintenance of
energized power transmission lines |
US195528 |
1994-02-14 |
US5494132A |
1996-02-27 |
Harry L. Hansen |
A frame and ladder assembly which includes an electrically conductive frame that is provided to engage two, generally parallel, aerially suspended, transmission conductors of a phase bundle and to be supported therefrom; within the frame a side opening structure which defines a cradle is provided, and in the cradle structure is provided means to engage the phase, such as a plurality of rollers with circumferential recesses, so that the frame can be repositioned along the phase similar to a carriage, without disengaging the frame from the phase; the ladder assembly comprises an insulated triangular ladder assembly which is attached at its vertex to the frame and hangs beneath it, permitting a line worker situated on the ladder assembly to easily perform maintenance and repairs on an energized phase directly above the ladder assembly; the ladder assembly is also comprised of pivotally connected ladder legs so that when the top of one of the two inclined side ladders is released from the frame, the other ladder legs of the assembly will pivot relative to one another and hang vertically, downwardly from the frame, affording the line worker a means of safely descending from the energized bundled conductor phase; a support cable with an insulating segment is releasably attached at one of its ends to a harness connected to the frame and at its other end to a lifting means, such as a helicopter, which can aerially transport the ladder and frame assembly to, and position it in supportable engagement with two of the transmission conductors in the side opening cradle of the frame. |
98 |
Overhead cable transport installation having two successive sections |
US801464 |
1991-12-02 |
US5172640A |
1992-12-22 |
Jean-Pierre Cathiard |
The hauling-carrier cable of a gondola lift or chair lift is subdivided in two endless cable loops operating together. These cable loops are linked by a technical relay including two bull wheels or a bull wheel with two grooves, one for each cable loop. Transfer rails located in the technical relay permit the passage of the cabins from one cable loop to the other. The cabins, uncoupled from the cable, run on the transfer rail at the same velocity as the cable. The two bull wheels are mechanically coupled to transfer the driving power from one cable loop to the other. |
99 |
Drive pulley for cableways |
US512365 |
1990-04-23 |
US5057060A |
1991-10-15 |
Herbert Kothmayer |
A drive pulley, in particular, a cable drive pulley for cableways, includes a hub, a rim and a spoke arrangement therebetween. The individual spokes are arranged independently from one another. The spoke design has at least two pairs of spokes, and the distance between connecting points of any pair of spokes is greater at the hub than at the rim. The spokes of a pair of spokes are angularly displaced in relation to imaginary radii emerging from the connecting points on the rim, and between any two pairs of spokes, at least one radial support spoke 7 may be provided. |
100 |
Trolley storage |
US9 |
1979-01-02 |
US4276831A |
1981-07-07 |
Jean-Paul Leger |
The present invention relates to an overhead trolley switching system which is operative in both manual and automatic modes. The switching system is particularly suited for the storage of overhead trolleys and includes a secondary rail spaced from the main rail along with a switching rail adapted to divert one wheel assembly from the main rail. The trolleys can, if desired, be stored in a diagonal position. |