Patent ID: 7377220
Filing Date: 2008-05-27
Classification: B61B

Abstract:
1. A chair-lift for an aerial transport installation, the chair-lift comprising: a support bow connected to a hanger arm; a pivoting cover for protection against inclement weather, which cover is formed by a shell made of transparent plastic material mounted to swivel around a first spindle of the bow between a raised open position and a lowered closed position; an operating mechanism with automatic latching of the cover in said lowered closed position, said mechanism comprising an operating lever associated by a transmission device to an operating means, wherein the operating lever is pivotally mounted on the first pivoting spindle of the cover and operates in conjunction with a latch actuated by the transmission device between a closed latched position and an unlatched position, and the latch has a latching zone that is situated at a base of the shell when the cover is in the closed latched position.