Patent ID: 7559281
Filing Date: 2009-07-14
Classification: B61B

Abstract:
1. Transport installation with a continuous running aerial rope, supporting vehicles composed of chairs and gondola cars coupled by detachable grips and staggered along the rope in a predetermined combination and with a predetermined running rate, said rope extending in a closed loop between two bull-wheels, with an up-line and a down-line, said installation having loading/unloading terminals provided at least at the ends of said lines, at least one of the loading/unloading terminals comprising: detachment means, on entry, to detach the grips from the rope, engagement means, on exit, to recouple the grips and the rope, a transfer circuit connecting the up-line and the down-line of the rope, with a slowing-down section equipped with a slowing-down device, and a speeding-up section equipped with a propelling device, connected by a run-through section with a low running speed equipped with a driving device of the vehicles, a first location for loading/unloading into/from the cars and a second location for loading on or unloading from the chairs, staggered along the transfer circuit, and a continuous running rate regulating section arranged in the transfer circuit to perform said rate regulation of the vehicles, wherein the rate regulating section is equipped with means that is able to vary a time spent by the cars and by the chairs in said rate regulating section, to impose, on exit from the rate regulating section, at each passage of a vehicle, a time interval with respect to a previous vehicle, according to the type of said vehicle and the type of said previous vehicle: