Abstract: An aerial transportation installation is provided with a carrier vehicle and a terminal. The terminal comprises a moving device to move the carrier vehicle in the terminal. The moving device defines a running path of the carrier vehicle and moves the vehicle. A platform is arranged on one side of the running path. The platform allows movement alongside the moving device and enables an operation to be performed on the moving device. The terminal defines a running space for a grip of the carrier vehicle. The moving device is arranged between the platform and the running space. An additional platform is movable between first and second positions. In a first position, the additional platform does not form an obstacle to progression of the vehicle. The second position enables maintenance to be performed on the moving device.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cabin for transporting passengers, comprising at least one door (P1, P2), an interior floor (C) and a doorsill (S) located on either side of the door, and a locking device comprising a lug (E) which is rigidly connected to the door and projects toward the outside of the cabin, and a catch finger (4) that is movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The invention also relates to an actuating mechanism comprising a pedal (7) which is located under the interior floor (C) of the cabin and can be accessed via a hatch in the floor of the cabin, and a kinematic connection between the pedal (7) and the finger (4), which connection is located under the interior floor (C) and under the doorsill (S) of the cabin. In the locked position, the finger is an abutment on the path of the lug (E). In the unlocked position, the finger is retracted under the doorsill (S) of the cabin.

Abstract: A fault location system in a cable transport installation comprises a safety unit (10) and an end module (13) connected by an electrical safety line (11). The safety line (11) comprises a plurality of cable fault contacts (14) of the normally-closed type connected in series. The location system includes a plurality of location modules (20) distributed along the transport installation, each of which comprising a first test contact (21), of the normally-open type, for short-circuiting the safety line (11). Once a fault coming from one of the cable fault contacts (14) is detected, each location module (20) is capable of selectively closing its first test contact (21) so as to be able to locate said faulty contact (14) on the safety line.

Abstract: Device for supporting and guiding a hauling cable of a vehicle transportation installation by cable, including a sheave configured for supporting and guiding the hauling cable, a first girder provided with a main axis, a second girder supporting the sheave and mounted pivotally movable around the main axis, at least one recovery element mounted on the first girder, and at least one cooperating element mounted on the second girder at a distance from said at least one recovery element in a normal operating state where the second girder swivels around the main axis, and configured to be in contact with said at least one recovery element in an abnormal operating state corresponding to failure of the main axis.

Abstract: An improved picket railing anchor system for multiple picket railings for buildings, balconies, and decks, which can experience different forces being applied by people, objects or hurricane strength winds. The system includes an elongated base member having integral keyways which receive anchor assemblies having mounting plates, elevated rails and a central mounting post that also can elevate the base member to allow for drainage. The anchor assemblies are slidable and can be selectively positioned for easy and secure installation.

Abstract: A device for monitoring a cableway installation, the installation including a carrier vehicle designed to be hauled by a cable, the device including: for detecting entry of a vehicle in a running zone, for calculating a variable representative of a running length of the cable, for comparing the calculated variable with a threshold, and determining configured to determine receipt of an event indicating exit of the vehicle from the running zone, the monitoring device being configured to transmit a malfunction signal after the calculated variable has reached the threshold and the event has not been received.

Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle (1) for transporting people on a sloping track (V) of a cable transport installation, said vehicle comprising a carriage (10) suitable for running on the track (V) while being drawn by at least one traction cable (C1) of the transport installation, a cabin support (120) carried by the carriage (10), an onboard braking device (14) and a shock absorber (13) linked to the onboard braking device and to the cabin support (120), and suitable for transforming the kinetic energy of the cabin support (120) into heat when the cabin support (120) moves relative to the onboard braking device (14) along a shock absorption trajectory in the shock absorption direction, characterized in that the onboard braking device (14) is rigidly connected to the carriage (10) and the vehicle also comprises a slide link (12) between the cabin support (120) and the carriage (10) to guide a movement of the cabin support (120) relative to the carriage (10) along the shock absorption trajectory.

Abstract: A device for supporting and guiding a hauling cable of a vehicle transportation installation, including a support structure, at least one movable member and at least one axis enabling the at least one movable member to swivel with respect to the support structure, an opening being formed inside the at least one axis and extending between two ends of the at least one axis.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cableway installation for transporting persons by disengageable vehicles and carrying cable comprising: a first station (1a) equipped with a first end pulley, a second station (1b) equipped with a second end pulley, a relay structure equipped with a first idler pulley and a second idler pulley, a first cable loop engaged with the first end pulley and the first idler pulley, and a second cable loop engaged with the second end pulley and the second idler pulley. The relay structure comprises a transfer system for transferring vehicles between the first cable loop and the second cable loop and a fixed guiding track supporting a structure translationally moveable with respect to the fixed guiding track, the moveable structure bearing the first idler pulley, the second idler pulley and embarking the vehicle transfer system.

Abstract: Installation for transporting vehicles hauled by a cable, including an image acquisition system generating an image representative of a compartment of a vehicle, and an electronic control unit retrieving an identifier of the vehicle and recording the identifier and the representative image associated with the identifier in a non-volatile memory.

Abstract: A gondola of a Ferris wheel installation is connected to a wheel rim structure of the Ferris wheel by means of a guide structure comprising at least one bearing that is connected to the wheel rim structure by two sliding ball joints which have slide axes that are parallel to one another and spaced apart from one another.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a flexible switch element for a track carrying rubber-tyred trains comprising two parallel rails each having an upper running surface for the tyres and an inner side surface for supporting a continuous strip (B) for guiding the train. The switch element has at least one hinge providing the longitudinal link with an adjacent switch element. The switch element also has a set of longitudinal abutments engaging, on the one hand, with the hinge in order to adjust the relative angular orientation of the element and, on the other hand, with a pivoting bottom rod providing the connection to and the alignment with an identical switch element arranged symmetrically on the opposite side of the switch. The disclosure also relates to a track switchgear comprising the assembly of such elements and a method for transporting passengers along a track provided with said track switchgear.

Abstract: The cable transportation installation includes a cable supported by several sheaves of several pillars. At least one pillar is provided with at least one optical fuse defining first and second states enabling or preventing flow of an optical signal. A detection device is configured to detect derailment of the cable from one of the sheaves. The detection device makes a signal flow through the optical fuses to monitor their state. The optical fuses are configured to change state between the first state and the second state when the at least one optical fuse comes into contact with the cable or with one of its supports. The detection device emits an alarm in response to detection of a change of state of one of the optical fuses. Each optical fuse includes an optical fibre.

Abstract: A vehicle transportation installation by cable comprising a cable for hauling a vehicle, a fixedly mounted frame, a bull-wheel coupled to the cable and fitted rotatably on the frame so as to enable the cable to be driven, and a measurement device configured to measure at least one data item concerning movement of the bull-wheel, the measurement device being installed on the bull-wheel.

Abstract: Mobile subassembly (30) to receive and convey at least one passenger, comprising a support (20), a cabin (22) and a cabin (22) guide (32) in relation to the support (20) in rotation around a horizontal reference axis (200). The mobile subassembly (30) is equipped with a stabilization system (36) comprising at least one gear ring (38) attached to the support (20), at least one sprocket (40), a motor (66) comprising a motor shaft which turns around an axis which is fixed in relation to the cabin (22) a kinematic transmission chain between the motor shaft and the sprocket (40), and a coupling mechanism to guide the sprocket between an engagement position with the gear ring, in which the first sprocket is able to mesh with the first gear ring (38), and an uncoupled position in which the first sprocket (40) is a distance away and disengaged from the first gear ring (38).

Abstract: An overhead structure, for a cableway installation of the type having at least one hauling cable, includes an entrance and an exit which are coupled respectively to an upstream portion and to a downstream portion, each generally rectilinear, of a pathway of the cableway installation. The structure also includes an intermediate portion that is curved, at least in projection in a horizontal plane of the pathway, between the entrance and the exit. The structure further includes active vehicle guidance, at least laterally, over a first portion of the curved intermediate portion, the first portion extending generally along a portion that is radioidal or pseudo-radioidal at least in projection in the horizontal plane, or a mean plane which contains the entrance and the exit, and active guidance of the hauling cable between the entrance and the exit, capable of deflecting the cable at least laterally.

Abstract: Mobile subassembly (30) to receive and convey at least one passenger, comprising a support (20), a cabin (22) and a cabin (22) guide (32) in relation to the support (20) in rotation around a horizontal reference axis (200). The mobile subassembly (30) is equipped with a stabilization system (36) comprising a gear ring (38), a sprocket (40), a friction brake (82), a reversible permanent magnet synchronous machine (66) to drive the sprocket (40) and a switching circuit (74) which is able, in a first switching state, to link the windings (76) of the synchronous machine (66) to an electricity power supply (78) for motor use of the synchronous machine (66) and, in a second switching state, to link the windings (76) of the synchronous machine (66) to a dissipative ohmic circuit (80) for dissipative use of the synchronous machine (66).

Abstract: A cable guiding device for an aerial cableway system comprising at least one elongate cable support (23). The device further comprises a single pair of similar connections (39), by means of which the cable support is securely mounted on an aerial support structure. The connections (39) are arranged at a distance from one another in a longitudinal direction of the cable support (23). Each connection (39) comprises at least one corresponding damping block (59) which is inserted between the cable support (23) and the support structure (7). Each connection (39) of the pair is designed as a pseudo-embedded type connection capable of transmitting forces in the manner of a ball joint, with the effect of the damping block or blocks (59).

Abstract: The invention relates to a control device of a cable transport facility, comprising a controller capable of organizing an embarking period of a nominal duration (Tn_max) for vehicles at a station. This embarking period (Tn_max) ends with a prohibition of access to the vehicle. The controller comprises an input for receiving at least one variable representative of a vehicle occupancy. The controller is arranged to react upon receipt of such a variable during the embarking period (Tn_max) by comparing it to a threshold value and by triggering the prohibition of access to the vehicle in an anticipated manner and before the end of the embarking period (Tn_max) as a function of the result of the comparison between said variable and the threshold value.

Abstract: Articulation for a supporting and guiding device for a vehicle hauling cable of a transport installation, including a first frame adapted to be attached to a support carrying a rotary roller intended to be in contact with the hauling cable, a second frame adapted to be introduced into an orifice formed within a carrying structure of the device, and at least one elastic element placed between the first and second frames and adapted to allow a pivoting movement of the first frame relative to the carrying structure, the articulation having a variable outer diameter able to decrease when the articulation is introduced into the orifice.