Cable And Rigid Combined Patents (Class 104/87)
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Patent number: 11368002Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle mountable to an aerial conductor of an electricity transmission line to monitor a component. The unmanned aerial vehicle has a body having a propulsion system to lift, lower, and navigate the vehicle. A component monitoring tool is mounted to the body and is vertically displaceable between a first position and a second position. The tool in the first position is vertically spaced from the component. The tool in the second position is engaged with the component. A displacement assembly is mounted to at least one of the body and the tool and includes at least one displacement member to displace the body and the tool along the conductor.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HYDRO-QUEBECInventors: Samuel Lavoie, Matthieu Montfrond, Eric Lavoie
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Patent number: 11254334Abstract: A trolley for supporting transporting units of a transportation system, wherein the transporting units are supported suspended from a guide defining a direction of movement; the trolley comprising: a frame; rolls supported by the frame and configured for resting and rolling on the guide; a suspending arm for supporting the transporting units, wherein the suspending arm pivots constrained to the frame about the direction of movement between a first and a second angular position; a rotation limiting device selectively operable for limiting or blocking the rotation of the suspending arm with respect to the frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: LEITNER S.P.A.Inventor: Nikolaus Erharter
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Patent number: 11207605Abstract: A mechanical assemblage similar to a traditional zipline, where a wheeled cart travels with the assistance of gravity along a guide cable strung between two points. However, this new system allows the cart to travel further, along multiple segments of guide cable and track, connected to each other by an unique attachment system which allows the cart to travel unabated, from cable to track and back to cable, by allowing the mounting attachments for the track segments to pass through an opening in the side of the cart and then close the opening to make it impossible for the guide cable to escape the cart, while riding on the guide cable. This is the most compact, simple and highly functional solution yet presented for genuine cable and track zipline system able to function with only the potential energy of gravity.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Inventor: Christopher Michael Flynn
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Patent number: 8850988Abstract: An overhead installation for transporting people in an urban environment includes two carrying cables, which sag in curved manner and are spaced apart from one another, on which the rollers of the vehicle without a hanger arm run. Jacks with vertical displacement, controlled by a central unit, are placed in the connection between the rollers and the vehicle so as to reduce transmission of undesirable movements, resulting from the sag of the cables, to the car of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Creissels TechnologiesInventors: Denis Creissels, Jerome Richard
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Patent number: 8640627Abstract: A ramp system for bridging a flexible cable to a rigid rail to improve the movement of a trolley along a low tension fixed aerial cableway. The ramp system has an inverted U-shaped elongated channel having a contact surface, a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the distal end is disposed atop and contacts a portion of the cableway and an anchor configured to pivotably support the proximal end of the channel at a second point at a second level. The second level is disposed higher than the first level, wherein the distal end of the channel is slideably but positively secured to the portion of the cable and the first point, second point and distal end cooperate to form a triangular relationship, thereby reducing bending in the cable, reducing the approach angle and fatigue exerted on the channel and cable.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Inventor: Donald Perry
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Patent number: 8640626Abstract: A ramp system for bridging a flexible cable to a rigid rail to improve the movement of a trolley along a low tension fixed aerial cableway. The ramp system has an inverted U-shaped elongated channel having a contact surface, a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the distal end is disposed atop and contacts a portion of the cableway and an anchor configured to pivotably support the proximal end of the channel at a second point at a second level. The second level is disposed higher than the first level, wherein the distal end of the channel is slideably but positively secured to the portion of the cable and the first point, second point and distal end cooperate to form a triangular relationship, thereby reducing bending in the cable, reducing the approach angle and fatigue exerted on the channel and cable.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2012Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Inventor: Donald Perry
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Patent number: 8505461Abstract: The present invention relates to a diverter system to allow a line inspection robot to traverse an object. The diverter system includes a first diverter attached to a shield wire, a second diverter attached to the shield wire at a position spaced from the first diverter, and a bridge having a first end connected to the first diverter and a second end connected to the second diverter. The first diverter disengages the robot from the shield wire and onto the bridge and the second diverter disengages the robot from the bridge and onto the shield wire to allow the robot to traverse the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Andrew John Phillips, Mark Major, Glynn R. Bartlett
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Patent number: 8499696Abstract: A method and system of devices facilitate the uninterrupted transport of a payload of persons (110) or cargo along a multi-segmented guide cable (180), or zip line, suspended from a series of support structures (120). Transfer mechanisms (800, 810) allow the cable to loop to a starting location or to transport between discrete endpoints. A trolley (200) carrying the payload may be powered by gravity alone, or a motorized assist may allow the cable course to be traversed without regard to relative elevations of cable supports. Safety mechanisms (300) prevent the trolley from leaving the cable (180) unintentionally. The system enables one or more riders (110) to travel along the guide cable (180) at velocities desired for recreational purposes while assuming many body positions, such as prone, sitting or standing, to provide the sensation of flying like a bird.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Zip Holdings LLCInventor: Martin C. Tilley
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Publication number: 20130125776Abstract: A ramp system for bridging a flexible cable to a rigid rail to improve the movement of a trolley along a low tension fixed aerial cableway. The ramp system has an inverted U-shaped elongated channel having a contact surface, a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the distal end is disposed atop and contacts a portion of the cableway and an anchor configured to pivotably support the proximal end of the channel at a second point at a second level. The second level is disposed higher than the first level, wherein the distal end of the channel is slideably but positively secured to the portion of the cable and the first point, second point and distal end cooperate to form a triangular relationship, thereby reducing bending in the cable, reducing the approach angle and fatigue exerted on the channel and cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2012Publication date: May 23, 2013Inventor: Donald Perry
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Publication number: 20130098260Abstract: An overhead installation for transporting people in an urban environment includes two carrying cables, which sag in curved manner and are spaced apart from one another, on which the rollers of the vehicle without a hanger arm run. Jacks with vertical displacement, controlled by a central unit, are placed in the connection between the rollers and the vehicle so as to reduce transmission of undesirable movements, resulting from the sag of the cables, to the car of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: CREISSELS TECHNOLOGIESInventors: Denis Creissels, Jerome Richard
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Patent number: 8262071Abstract: A positioning assembly using a pair of rollers elastically connected to a holding base for clamping two cutters received in the holding base. The cutters in the holding base can be adjusted to make different blades contact and align precisely.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.Inventor: Chien-Feng Huang
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Publication number: 20120090494Abstract: A cable railway system has a conveying cable, which in the two end stations of the system is guided over a respective deflection pulley. Transport vehicles, which can be coupled to the conveying cable and are configured with a clamping device and with a running gear. The vehicles are coupled to the conveying cable along the route and are guided in the stations by way of the running gear along guide rails. There, the passengers disembark and board. The movement of the vehicles in the stations is governed by control tires, which are drivingly coupled to one another by gear mechanisms. The drive power of the control tires is taken from at least one support roller for the conveying cable, which support roller is located in the station. The support roller for the conveying cable via which the drive of the control tires is derived from the conveying cable by way of at least one drive belt is elastically mounted on a rigidly fastened axle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2011Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: INNOVA PATENT GMBHInventor: MARKUS BECK
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Patent number: 7823511Abstract: An installation conveys individuals by way of a transporting device along a track located above the ground and borne by supports. The installation further has a base station, an apparatus for conveying the transporting device from the base station to a top station, and a running rail for the transporting device which starts from the top station and runs predominantly downward. The running rail extends along curves and loops from the top station to the base station. Provided in the region of the base station, in which the boarding location for the passengers is located, is a conveying tower configured with an upward-conveying apparatus for the transporting device. Located in a region of the top station is a transfer location at which the transporting device occupied by passengers is transferred from the upward-conveying apparatus to the running rail, along which they descend to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2007Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventors: Stephan Lins, Reinhard Albrich
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Patent number: 7712760Abstract: When the electric vehicle is to be towed by a towing vehicle, the two vehicles are connected by a connection tool, and a drive motor prioritization control unit is connected to the communication network by a communication cable. Power from a battery is then supplied to the low voltage line by a power supply cable, and the inverter is controlled by a signal from the drive motor prioritization control unit of the towing vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2008Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Yosuke Ohtomo
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Patent number: 7490556Abstract: A cableway installation has a suspension and hauling cable with transport devices such as cableway gondolas, lift chair, or the like, which are capable of being disconnected from the suspension and hauling cable in the stations. There, they are conveyed along guide rails through the stations and subsequently reconnected to the suspension and hauling cable. The transport devices can be caused to rotate in relation to the suspension rods about an approximately vertical axis by way of a turntable drive unit. A detector device is disposed in the entry area to the stations, by way of which the rotational position of the transport devices is monitored as they enter the stations and switching-off of the cableway gondola installation is occasioned in the event that a preset value for the rotational position is exceeded.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2006Date of Patent: February 17, 2009Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventors: Christian Rein, Thomas Stefani
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Patent number: 7461598Abstract: A loop-shaped maintenance bay route 6 directly connected to an inter-bay route 4 is provided for the maintenance of an overhead traveling vehicle 8. An operation check traveling line 16 and an operation check station 18 are provided along the maintenance bay route 6 for fully carrying out tests for traveling operation and transfer operation of the overhead traveling vehicle 8. In an adjustment/repair area 14, adjustment, configuration, repair, reconfiguration, or the like of the overhead traveling vehicle 8 are performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2006Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Murata Kikai Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Tamotsu Shiwaku
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Publication number: 20030183118Abstract: The intermediate support device is used for supporting an intermediate portion of elongated element such as a lifeline. The intermediate support device comprises a frame which is to be fixedly attached to an external structure, and a wheel comprising a hub rotatably carried by the frame and a number of peripherally spaced-apart spokes fixedly attached to and radially extending from the hub, the spokes defining a common first channel side and a common second side opposite the channel side. The frame comprises a frame guard in facing spaced register relative to the spokes first channel side and having an edge portion adjacent the spokes whereby the wheel and the frame guard form a substantially closed loop defining a channel therethrough on the spokes first channel side, for allowing the elongated element to extend through the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2003Publication date: October 2, 2003Inventors: Marco Simard, Georges Begin
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Patent number: 6543366Abstract: A continuously moving cable traction haulage system with vehicles equipped with coupling clamps disengageable from the cable comprising in the stations an uncoupling rail and one for coupling the clamp to the rail is described. In accordance with the present invention the coupling rail (1) is supported in a sprung manner and therewith is associated a sprung roller (23) bearing the traction cable (7) between two fixed guide rollers.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: High Technology Investments BVInventors: Otto Pabst, Andreas Mair
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Publication number: 20030061960Abstract: A tramway transport system (31) including a flexible belt track (32) which spans between two transport terminals (33,34) and, a belt anchorage at each of the terminals. The belt track (32) is not driven to propel the transport vehicle (36, 36a) but instead is tensioned by a belt tensioning assembly, preferably a belt reel assembly (41), formed to apply a tension force to the belt (32). The transport vehicle (36, 36a) mounted to the belt (32) for movement along the belt (32), and is preferably self-propelled. The belt reel assembly (41) is capable of rapid, substantial, dynamic length adjustments of the belt track (32), which enables application of the transport system (31) to underway ship replenishment applications. A method of transporting loads between terminals (33,34) using a flexible belt track (32), a tensioning reel (41) and load-carrying transport vehicle (36, 36a) also is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2001Publication date: April 3, 2003Inventor: Jan K. Kunczynski
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Patent number: 6526894Abstract: A running-gear mechanism for the transport assembly of a cableway system has running rollers that roll in guide rails while the coupling assembly is uncoupled from the haulage cable. In the region of the running rollers there is provided at least one downwardly projecting continuation which projects into the guide rails.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 4, 2003Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventor: Bernd Meindl
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Publication number: 20020162477Abstract: This invention is a high speed dual cable zip line ride whereby the participant(s) ascends by a mechanical motor drive system and descend using a combination of mechanical and gravitational forces. The participant(s) will be secured in either a harnessed or a seated tram configuration. The control of the deceleration and stopping of the ride will be performed by one of four mechanical configurations depending on the dimension of the ride (i.e. Length and height of the ride). These configurations will be an air shock system, a nitrogen shock system, a hydraulic disc braking system, or a magnetic disc braking system. In all embodiments of the ride appropriate platforms and procedures for safely embarking and disembarking will be utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2002Publication date: November 7, 2002Inventor: Emiliano Palumbo
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Publication number: 20020134276Abstract: A continuously moving cable traction haulage system with vehicles equipped with coupling clamps disengageable from the cable comprising in the stations an uncoupling rail and one for coupling the clamp to the rail is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2001Publication date: September 26, 2002Inventors: Otto Pabst, Andreas Mair
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Patent number: 6427601Abstract: The installation conveys persons from a valley station to a mountain station and for carries individuals from the mountain station to the valley station via carriages that are guided along a track formed by a running rail. The installation has a cableway system with a haulage cable and transport assemblies that can be coupled thereto and are intended for persons and for conveying devices that convey the carriages from the valley station to the mountain station. The haulage cable is guided over cable-deflecting pulleys in the valley station and in the mountain station. Guide rails are provided in the valley station and in the mountain station along which the conveying devices and transport assemblies, uncoupled from the haulage cable, are guided around the cable-deflecting pulleys with conveying wheels. Bypass rails are connected to the guide rails via diverters both in the valley station and in the mountain station.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2001Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: Innova Patent GmbHInventor: Reinhard Albrich
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Publication number: 20020088368Abstract: A counter-sheave device for traction cable transportation systems running on guide sheaves is described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2001Publication date: July 11, 2002Inventors: Otto Pabst, Andreas Mair
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Patent number: 6412420Abstract: Disclosed herein is cable by-pass device comprising a guide wheel rotatably mounted to an axle, at least one toothed wheel having a plurality of teeth extending radially therefrom rotatably mounted independently of the guide wheel, a bracket to the rear of the guide wheel, and an attachment portion below the guide wheel.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2000Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: Sellstrom Manufacturing Co.Inventors: Rafael Kramer, Anne Jahnke
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Patent number: 5515789Abstract: A single-cable aerial cableway including guide rails forming a lead-in guide, secured to a stationary cable support structure. The lead-in guide cooperates with a wheel secured to the grip so as to stabilize and position the grip and the load before they pass along the structure. The position of the lead-in guide is automatically adjusted when the position in height of the cable changes so that the weel always enter the lead-in guide.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 1994Date of Patent: May 14, 1996Assignee: Pomagalski S.A.Inventors: Max Brochand, Jean-Pierre Rastello
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Patent number: 5159880Abstract: In the by-pass zone of a car transfer track, in a terminal station of a detachable gondola lift or chairlift, the cars are driven by tired wheels. Transmission between two successive wheels comprises two toothed bevel pinions, wedged onto the wheel spindles, which engage with an inverter bevel pinion inserted between adjacent toothed benel pinions.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1990Date of Patent: November 3, 1992Assignee: Pomagalski S.A.Inventor: Jean-Francois Mugnier
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Patent number: 5127338Abstract: A load attachment system comprises an elongate element secured with respect to a supporting structure and a load attachment, traversing device engaged therewith for sliding movement therealong to traverse intermediate attachment points for the elongate element without detachment therefrom. The traversing device includes a pair of rotary members which cooperate to define a channel for receiving and locating the elongate element. The rotary members are supported on mounting structure adapted to allow relative movement of the rotary member to narrow, or increase, the width of the channel. A load attachment connection is provided on the mounting structure to cause loading of the rotary members, under loads applied in directions away from the elongate element, so as to firmly maintain them in relative positions in which the channel is narrowed thereby securing the elongate element in the channel and reducing the possibility of detachment of the load from the elongate element.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 1990Date of Patent: July 7, 1992Assignee: Latchways LimitedInventor: Peter R. Flux
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Patent number: 5121695Abstract: An overhead cableway is disclosed, in particular a chair lift, with a cable revolving between stations and with transport devices having a traveling gear and connected with the cable via removable clamps. Travel segments are provided at every station which include driven friction wheels, which act on the transport devices via friction surfaces provided on their traveling gear, and forming at least one deceleration and one acceleration section each, and with guide elements associated with the travel segments, which cooperate with the traveling gear. In accordance with the invention, the friction wheels (6,10) define traveling surfaces (20) and the transport devices (50) are supported by their downwardly oriented friction surfaces (88) directly on the friction wheels, and the guide elements (48) are seated rotatably and fixed in place.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1990Date of Patent: June 16, 1992Assignee: Von Roll Transportsysteme AGInventor: Fritz Feuz
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Patent number: 5119733Abstract: A tension station of a detachable chairlift or gondola lift includes a sliding carriage which supports both the return pulley or drive pulley and transfer rail with the associated drive mechanism which drives the cars of the cable transport installation. The carriage is mounted such that it may slide along a longitudinal axis between the tension station and another station.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1990Date of Patent: June 9, 1992Assignee: Pomagalski S.A.Inventor: Max Brochand
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Patent number: 4958574Abstract: A cable conveyance having a storage region for garaging the carriers which an be decoupled from the transport cable. The carriers are displaced along a transport rail to the storage regions by a reversible drive and are permitted to move by gravity along storage rails into this region or by positively tilting these storage rails back to the transport rail to return to the cable. Thus within the storage region the displacement of the carriers is by gravity only and there is no need to provide a special drive for entrainment of the carriers along the storage rails.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 1989Date of Patent: September 25, 1990Assignee: Konrad Doppelmayr & Sohn Maschinenfabrik Gesellschaft m.b.H. & Co. KGInventor: Bernd Meindl
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Patent number: 4608930Abstract: A cableway-type transportation system has an endless cable looped under tension about two reversing pulleys between which its two substantially parallel runs are supported by sustaining rollers yieldably overlain by retaining rollers. At an intermediate point the two runs are laterally bent in the same direction by respective deflectors lying within the loop plane, namely a first deflector comprising a relatively large pulley inside the loop and a second deflector including an array of relatively small pulleys outside the loop. The latter pulleys are partly overlain by a curved shelf rigid with a vertical web of a guard rail, the corresponding cable run passing normally under that web.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1982Date of Patent: September 2, 1986Assignee: Societe Anonyme Dite: Etablissements Montaz-MautinoInventor: Jean-Marie Galmiche
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Patent number: 4440305Abstract: A skyline logging system wherein a skyline cable is supported at an intermediate location by an intermediate support assembly and a logging carriage is supported on the cable and is arranged to pass over the intermediate support assembly. The carriage has inwardly tapered pulleys which ride on oppositely bevelled tracks on the top edges of an upwardly-facing channel shaped member forming part of the intermediate support assembly. The top edges have ramp-like end portions. The carriage is lifted off the cable and rides on the bevelled tracks when crossing over the intermediate support assembly. The carriage can tilt laterally relative to the intermediate support assembly while riding on the bevelled tracks because of the lateral movability of the tapered pulleys on the oppositely bevelled tracks, whereby to maintain stability during passage of the carriage over the intermediate support.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 1982Date of Patent: April 3, 1984Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of AgricultureInventors: Cleveland J. Biller, David D. Johnson
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Patent number: 4050385Abstract: There is disclosed a high capacity passenger transport apparatus which may be employed as a ski lift including a high speed main cable ascending up a ski run and driven at high speeds. A pair of first and second shuttle tracks lead from the downhill run of such cable at the bottom station and separate to pass through respective first and second loading areas and then merge back together at the uphill run of the high speed cable. Chair trucks are carried on the main cable and include releasable grippers gripping such cables and are intercepted at the end of their downhill travel by escort cars which decelerate such trucks and escort them past a selector switch to direct alternate ones thereof onto the respective first and second shuttle tracks and then to a stopped position at the loading area so skiers can be loaded thereonto.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1975Date of Patent: September 27, 1977Assignee: Walt Disney ProductionsInventors: Robert H. Gurr, Roger E. Broggie
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Patent number: 4034678Abstract: A toy train system providing a plurality of sections of rigid and flexible track members and a switching device for selectively connecting one of the members together. The switching device includes a pair of stationary rings and a rotatable ring with the flexible pieces of track extending between them and selectively registerable with the rigid track members at one of them. Self powered cars are equipped to travel the tracks in upside down condition, upright or on their side, the tracks being especially formed to receive the cars and maintain their security regardless of their oriented condition.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1976Date of Patent: July 12, 1977Inventor: Warren Elvin Wilson