Patent ID: 8342310

Claim:
Conveyor system for the transportation of passengers/goods, the system comprising: a bearing structure; a loading/unloading area; a traction equipment; a plurality of mobile platforms: dragged by the traction equipment, configured to receive and convey passengers/goods in a carryway, from a loading area to an unloading area; comprising side walls to define a compartment and prevent the passengers/goods from interfering with a guiding device; wherein the guiding device is configured to guide the mobile platform: in a carryway, from the loading area to the unloading area in a return way, from the unloading area to the loading area; displacement means in the loading/unloading area to position a return mobile platform between a carryway level and a return level; wherein the displacement means comprise: an elevation/descent frame to receive the return mobile platform in the loading/unloading area and displace the return mobile platform between the carryway level and the return level; an auxiliary guiding device in the elevation/descent frame to guide an entrance/exit from the return mobile platform on the elevation/descent frame; a spindle to vertically displace the elevation/descent frame between the carryway level and the and return level according to a rotation direction of the spindle; centering guides to guide vertical movement of the elevation/descent frame between the carryway level and the return level; an elevation/descent engine to activate the spindle.