Patent ID: 7806055
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: B61B

Abstract:
1. Transport installation comprising a continuous running rope supporting vehicles arranged at intervals along the rope with a preset running rate, said installation having loading/unloading terminals arranged along the rope and comprising: a detachment member, on entry to the terminal, that uncouples the vehicles from the rope; an attachment member, on exit from the terminal, that recouples the vehicles and the rope; a transfer circuit of the vehicles, with a slowing-down section equipped with a slowing-down device, a speeding-up section equipped with an accelerating device, connected by an intermediate section wherein the vehicles run at reduced or nil speed equipped with a driving device of the vehicles; and loading/unloading points in/from the vehicles, arranged along the intermediate section, wherein each loading/unloading terminal comprises: a grouping section of the vehicles, located between the slowing-down section and the intermediate section, equipped with means for forming groups of a preset number of vehicles, and first transfer means for collectively driving said group to collectively move each group formed to the intermediate section for collective driving of said group by the driving device of the intermediate section; and a separating section of the vehicles, located between the intermediate section and the speeding-up section, to collectively stock each group coming from the intermediate section, said separating section being equipped with second transfer means to selectively move the stocked vehicles to the speeding-up section for individual driving by the accelerating device of the speeding-up section at said preset running rate.