Patent ID: 8707869

Claim:
A cableway installation, comprising: a travel cable; a vehicle suspended from the travel cable; a boarding point and a disembarking point; an aerial carrier configured to support and drive the travel cable such that the vehicle is transported between the boarding point and the disembarking point; a mobile conductor disposed on the vehicle; a fixed conductor disposed on the aerial carrier adjacent to the travel cable and in an area proximate to at least one of the boarding point and the disembarking point; wherein the fixed conductor comprises a first fixed contact element connected to a low voltage electric supply and a first plurality of flexible conductive contact wires extending from the fixed conductor, disposed generally perpendicular to the travel cable, and extending along a longitudinal length of at least one side of the travel cable; wherein the mobile conductor is disposed so as to the contact the first plurality of flexible conductive contact wires and establish electrical contact with the first fixed contact element and with the low voltage electric supply when the vehicle is transported between the boarding point and the disembarking point.