Suspended Conveyors Patents (Class 191/45A)
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Patent number: 6073739Abstract: A rail is arranged along a predetermined route of a movable body. The movable body is moved by electric power fed through an electric cable wired along the rail. The rail is constituted by a plurality of rail segments. Each segment includes a body having a predetermined length and a channel-like cross section and an electric cable segment supported by the body extending in the axial direction of the body. The electric cable segment is one of a plurality of segments obtained by dividing the electric cable.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1997Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toyoda Jidoshokki SeisakushoInventors: Masaki Takasan, Yasuharu Odachi
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Patent number: 5355804Abstract: A rail-guided apparatus-carrying system for conveying and moving an apparatus such as a loudspeaker or a spotlight along a predetermined path defined by the system when fixed in a wall or roof of a housing, the system comprising a rail-like stationary holder to be fixed to the roof and a movable carrier including a driving motor unit for moving the carrier along the holder and an apparatus actuating unit for moving the apparatus relative to the carrier, the apparatus being connected to the carrier by an apparatus hanging member, the carrier being supported in the holder by a supporting-guiding-estabilizing mechanism including damping-resilient devices for obtaining steady and smooth movements for the carried apparatus, an electrical system being provided to supply electricity to the units.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1993Date of Patent: October 18, 1994Inventors: Eduardo R. Garcia, Patricia Lazzeretti
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Patent number: 5120911Abstract: A self-propelled member or carriage runs along a stationary surface-conducting cable formed of alternately disposed conducting and insulating turns. The carriage is provided with a rotor extending around the cable and having contacts in a conductive relation with the conducting turns of the cable. At least two pulleys are rotatably mounted to the carriage with the cable interposed between the pulleys. An electric motor is operatively electrically connected to the contacts of the rotors and is drivingly connected to the pulleys. Electric power is transmitted from the cable by the rotor to the motor whereupon the motor drives the pulleys to propel the carriage along the cable.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1991Date of Patent: June 9, 1992Assignee: Cable Link S.r.l.Inventor: Giovanni A. Gazzola
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Patent number: 5051546Abstract: A trolley carriage comprising rollers for carrying the trolley carriage along a bearing rail. The rollers are supported by at least one roller support of the trolley carriage. The bearing rail has live rails which are insulated from one another extending along the bearing rail, and the trolley carriage has sliding contacts which are in flexible contact with the live rails. A common housing part which is connected to at least one roller support via a detachable quick coupling supports the sliding contacts.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 1990Date of Patent: September 24, 1991Assignee: Wampfler GmbHInventors: Uwe Bormann, Dieter Goerner
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Patent number: 4700024Abstract: Control signals are transmitted to and from a vehicle in that stationary transducers are mounted on a parallelogram suspension for a collector line in a particular relation thereto, while a complementary and cooperating transducer is mounted next to a collector shoe on a vehicle, so that the collector line adjustment is used to ensure particular alignment of the transducers when passing.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1985Date of Patent: October 13, 1987Assignee: Mannesmann AGInventors: Heinz Hasselmann, Anton Muenzebrock, Heinz Pfannkuche
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Patent number: 4641582Abstract: A lower chord electric trolley conveyor comprising a rail with an upper flange which is directly connected to a support structure. The electric trolley receives its current from a bus bar attached to the rail. The drive wheels of the trolley engage the upper side of the lower flange of the rail. Upper flanges extend from a vertical web of the rail toward both sides while a lower flange extends only toward one side. The electric trollery wraps around the lower part of the rail. It comprises counter pressure rolls in front of and behind the drive wheel. The counter pressure rolls engage the surface of the upper flange which faces the lower flange. Several support rolls engage both sides of the vertical web of the rail. The bus bar is connected to the side of the vertical web of the rail facing away from the drive wheel.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 1985Date of Patent: February 10, 1987Inventor: Georg Uttscheid
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Patent number: 4488015Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for power collection and for control f motors on a chassis of overhead trolleys. The apparatus includes a casing for receiving the control device, which is detachably mounted on the rear side of the overhead trolley chassis by means of a groove-snap lock. The casing is provided on its front side with a receiving device for receiving carbon brushes which engage the power tracks and serve to supply the power.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 1982Date of Patent: December 11, 1984Assignee: Blaser & Translift Gesellschaft F/u/ r Hebe-Und F/o/ rderanlagen mbHInventor: Manfred Geng
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Patent number: 4480157Abstract: An overhead conveyor comprising a monorail and a carrier supported on the monorail. In the illustrated embodiment, the monorail is generally I-shaped in cross section and the carrier comprises two carriages spaced apart along the monorail having a roller adapted to ride on the top of the monorail and guide rollers adapted to engage the sides of the monorail to provide lateral stability. The two carriages are interconnected by a load beam pivotally mounted on vertical pins in each of the carriages. One of the carriages carries a drive motor for advancing the carrier along the rail and the other of the carriages provides an electrical pick-up device for taking power from trolley lines mounted on the monorail and supplying power to the drive motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 1982Date of Patent: October 30, 1984Assignee: Tsubakimoto Chain CompanyInventors: Takashi Ishikura, Joji Mino, Kiyomi Sato, Takaaki Nagato
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Patent number: 4375193Abstract: An improved monorail guideway assembly including unencumbered running surfaces that are supported by a truss. Electrical bus bars are attached to the underside of the running surfaces and a protective skirt is attached to the edges of the running surfaces along their entire length. The skirt is bent so as to form a smoothly curved shoulder that shields the bus bars and guideway surface from snow or rain.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1980Date of Patent: March 1, 1983Assignee: Universal Mobility, Inc.Inventor: Donald P. Sullivan
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Patent number: 4053035Abstract: A cable holder device for holding current-carrying cables spaced apart but biased to maintain contact with two current-collecting shoes. The shoes are mounted on a self-propelled cable car having an electric drive motor connected to the shoes and driven apparatus constructed as a driven pulley for suspending the cable car on a suspension cable from which the cable car is suspended and on which it travels. The holder maintains positive contact between the current-carrying shoes and the current-carrying cables regardless of the swaying of the cables and the cable car.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 1976Date of Patent: October 11, 1977Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hiromichi Uchiyama, Yukiyoshi Hatori