Improvements in Suspended Cable Roads or Ways.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 27th Jan., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 27th Oct., 1891-Accepted, 28th Nov., 1891
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Suspended Cable Roads or Ways.
I, FLEURY ROBERT of the Ile de la Réunion in the Indian Ocean do hereby
declare the nature of this invention to be as follows:-
This invention relates to cable roads or ways supported by posts at intervals
and intended for the support of passenger or freight cars suspended thercon by
means of groove pulley wheels. The improvements principally relate to the
method of fixing or connecting the supporting cables to the posts carrying them.
A suitable frame is constructed with two parallel rails projecting to a slight
distance from the upper general surface of the frame along its two side edges.
This frame is suspended at or along the centre by means of rods from a cross
beam on the supporting pole, the other end of said cross beam carrying, if desired,
a second frame for the return track or road. In the lower part of the frame is.a
cross bolt of considerable strength and the wire rope or other cable employed
passes from each post to the next arriving at the respective end of the. frame just
below one of the rails thereon and passing downward over a suitable guide, to be
wound for one or more turns around the bolt and thence passing upward to the
other end of the respective rail, whence it leaves for the next post. Each 'rail
therefore forms a continuation of the cable way where it is deflected at each post
to be fastened by winding around the bolt aforesaid. With the aforesaid con- .
struction of frame two similar cables may be supported parallel to each other to
form a double cable way on which the vehicles are suspended by suitable U shaped
frames carrying a roller in each end.
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In applying such a principle to a double line for a back and forth service of
cars; at the highest elevation of the line which it is intended to serve, will be
placed a suitably strong pier or building of iron or wood or stone or brick work
in which is a vertically journalled pulley wheel over which the traction cable passes
and which is provided with a suitable engine for working it, or with a suitable
brake if the cars are to move by action of gravity by excess of the descending
over the ascending load.
Dated this 97th d... f 1
1001
HERBERT & Co.,
Agents to Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Suspended, Cable, Roads or Ways.
I, FLEURY ROBERT, of the Ile de la Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, Engineer,
do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to
be performed to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following
statement :-
This invention relates to cable roads or ways supported by posts at intervals and
intended for the support of passenger or freight cars suspended thereon by means
of grooved pulley wheels. The improvements principally relate to the method of
fixing or connecting the supporting cables to the post carrying them. A suitable
frame is constructed with two parallel rails projecting to a slight distance from the
upper general surface of the frame along its two side edges. This frame is
suspended at or along the centre by means of rods from a cross beam on the
supporting pole, the other end of said cross beam carrying if desired, a second
frame for the return track or road. In the lower part of the frame is a cross bolt
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page_text: of considerable strength and the wire rope or other cable employed passes from
cach post to the next arriving at the respective end of the frame just below one of
the rails thereon and passing downward over a suitable guide to be wound for one
or more turns around the bolt and thence passing upward to the other end of the
respective rail, whence it leaves for the next post. Each rail therefore forms a
continuation of the cable way where it is deflected at each post to be fastened by
winding around the bolt aforesaid. With the aforesaid construction of frame two
similar cables may be supported parallel to each other to form a double cable way
on which the vehicles are suspended by suitable U-shaped frames carrying a roller
in each end.
In applying such a principle to a double line for a back and forth service of cars,
at the highest elevation of the line which it is intended to serve, will be placed a
suitably strong pier or building of iron or wood or stone or brick work in which is
a vertically journalled pulley wheel over which the traction cable passes and which
is provided with a suitable engine for working it, or with a suitable brake if the
cars are to move by action of gravity by excess of the descending over the
ascending load.
The accompanying drawings illustrate the invention.
Fig. 1 being a side elevation or diagram of the improved suspended cable road
or way:
Fig. 2 a plan thereof.
Fig. 3 an enlarged sectional view of one of the frames.
Fig. 4 a cross section thereof.
Fig. a side elevation and Fig. 6 an end elevation of one of the wheel-frames
on which the carriage is suspended.
Fig. 7 a plan view of a part of the cable way with such wheel-frames thereon.
Bare the posts erected at intervals in the ground A. A' are the end piers
with horizontal wheels F F carrying the transport cable F. H is the cable
road on which the wheels D run as in Fig. 7. are the frames suspended from
the posts B having the rails C¹ and the cross bolts G as stated. E are the cars.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of the said inven-
tion and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I
claim is :-
1. In a suspended cable road or way the frames C having the rails C¹ and the
cross bolts G the latter for holding the cable or cables H in the manner described,
the rails C forming a continuation of the track as set forth.
2. In a suspended cable-road or way the combination of the posts B carrying
the frames with rails C¹ and bolts G the end piers A' with pulleys F, the
cables H, two for each track fastened in each frame as set forth together with
cars suspended by U-frames from the cables H and moved by the traction cable F
substantially as set forth.
Dated this 27th day of October 1891
HERBERT & Co.,
18, Buckingham Street, Strand, London, W.C., Agents for the Applicant.