Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B61B7/00—Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B61B12/00—Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in groups B61B7/00 - B61B11/00
  • B61B12/002—Cabins; Ski-lift seats
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B61B7/00—Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks
  • B61B7/04—Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks with suspended tracks serving as haulage cables
  • B61B7/045—Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks with suspended tracks serving as haulage cables having in each direction more than one track serving as haulage cables
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B61B12/00—Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in groups B61B7/00 - B61B11/00
  • B61B12/02—Suspension of the load; Guiding means, e.g. wheels; Attaching traction cables
  • B61B12/022—Vehicle receiving and dispatching devices
  • B61B12/024—Docking devices
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61B—RAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
  • B61B7/00—Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks
  • B61B7/02—Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks with separate haulage cables

Definitions

• Transport vehicle intended to be towed by an aerial cable and installation comprising such a vehicle
• the invention relates to transport by aerial cable, and more particularly the cable-type installations and the vehicles of these installations.
• a chairlift is a transport facility equipped with seats suspended from an aerial cable, both carrier and tractor.
• the cable cars have cabins that can carry more than eight passengers at higher heights than chair lifts.
• a cable car is a transport facility with traction cables and carrying cables overhead, and the cabins are suspended above ground by overhead cables.
• There are modern cable cars whose cabins are mounted in rotation around a vertical axis of the cabin so as to discover an exceptional panorama of the landscape for all passengers.
• An object of the invention is to overcome these disadvantages, and more particularly to provide means to create thrills to passengers transported by aerial cable tractor safely.
• a transport vehicle intended to be towed by an overhead cable, comprising a hooking device for hooking the vehicle to the overhead cable, a line extending along a longitudinal axis. and connected to the attachment device, a support connected to the hanger, the vehicle having at least two seats suspended from the support and located one behind the other along an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
• the support defines an open space to the outside and located below said at least two seats.
• Passengers are suspended above the void and their field of view facing the ground is unobstructed, creating strong sensations, especially for vehicles towed at significant heights above the ground.
• the support may delimit two lateral openings passing outwardly and located respectively on the lateral sides of the vehicle.
• the support may further delimit two front and rear openings through outwardly and located respectively at the front and rear of said at least two seats.
• the vehicle may comprise a structure for protecting said at least two seats mounted on the support.
• the protective structure may comprise a base forming a frame around said at least two seats and cylindrical elements connecting the base to the support.
• Each seat may have a harness pivotally mounted on the seat between a raised position in which access to the seat is permitted and a lowered position to provide protection for a passenger sitting on the seat.
• the vehicle may comprise a rotary seat rotatably mounted on the support.
• the vehicle may include a tilt system configured to rotate the rotary seat relative to a reference position of the rotary seat.
• an overhead cable transport installation comprising at least one vehicle as defined above.
• the installation may comprise a station equipped with a movable floor between a retracted position in which the vehicle enters the station and an extended position in which the floor is located below said at least two seats of the vehicle.
• FIG. 2 schematically illustrates a side view of a transport facility for which the floor is in a retracted position
• FIG. 3 schematically illustrates a side view of the transport facility of Figure 2 for which the floor is in an extended position.
• the aerial cable is a towing cable 2 on which are hung the vehicles 3 for towing.
• the installation 1 is preferably a cable car comprising a carrier structure, for example one or two carrying cables 4, 5.
• the vehicle 3 comprises a hooking device 6, a hanger 7 and a support 8.
• the attachment device 6 is configured to hook the vehicle 3 to the aerial traction cable 2.
• the attachment device 6 may be a carriage provided with a clip for hanging the carriage to the cable 2 and wheels for rolling on the carrying cable or cables 4, 5, as shown in Figure 1.
• the attachment device 6 may be a fixed clamp, for attachment of the vehicle 3 to the tractor 2 aerial cable permanently, or a detachable clip to attach the vehicle 3 removably.
• the hanger 7 is connected to the attachment device 6, and extends along a longitudinal axis L.
• the support 8 is connected to the hanger 7, at one end of the hanger 7 opposite to that where the device is connected. hanging 6.
• the vehicle 3 comprises at least two seats 9 to 13 suspended from the support 8 and located one behind the other along an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis L.
• the axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis L s' extends in the direction Y of the direction of movement of the vehicle 3 when the latter is towed 2.
• the vehicle 3 comprises at least two rows of seats located one behind the other along the axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis L, so as to increase the transport capacity of the vehicle 3.
• each row extends along a horizontal axis when the vehicle 3 is stationary.
• Figure 1 there is shown by way of example, a vehicle 3 comprising seats 9 to 13 arranged in five rows.
• seats 9 to 13 are of the bucket type, that is to say individual seats whose backrest fits the loins of a passenger, so that the passenger is wedged in the seat.
• each seat 9 to 13 comprises a harness 30, illustrated in Figures 2 and 3, pivotally mounted on the seat 9 to 13 between a raised position, illustrated in Figure 3, wherein an access to the seat 9 to 13 is authorized , and a lowered position, illustrated in Figure 2, to provide protection for a passenger sitting on the seat 9 to 13.
• each seat 9 to 13 may be equipped with a railing 31 pivotally mounted between a raised position, illustrated in Figure 3, and a lowered position, illustrated in Figure 2, so as to immobilize the legs of the passenger.
• the harness 30 is shaped to protect the trunk of the passenger by wedging between the backrest and the harness 30 when the harness 30 is in the lowered position.
• the support 8 defines a space 14 open towards the outside and located below the seats 9 to 13.
• This space 14 allows the seats 9 to 13 to be suspended above the vacuum. The passengers are thus suspended in a vacuum without any floor obstructing their field of vision.
• Such a vehicle 3 provides new sensations stronger than those that can be experienced with a closed cabin of a conventional cable car.
• the open space 14 has no windows or several orifices allowing the air to circulate.
• this vehicle 3 is not a cabin because it has no floor at the location below the seats 9 to 13.
• this vehicle 3 is towed over the empty, it allows you to create thrills because passengers have an unobstructed field of view on the landscape under the seats, that is to say under their feet.
• the support 8 also defines two lateral openings 18, 19 passing outwardly and located respectively on the lateral sides of the vehicle 3.
• the vehicle 3 has no side walls. That is to say, the sides of the vehicle 3 have neither windows, nor several orifices allowing the air to circulate.
• the support 8 may also delimit two front 20 and rear 21 through-out openings and situated respectively at the front and rear of the seats 9 to 13. That is to say that the front and the rear of the vehicle 3 have no windows or multiple orifices allowing the air to circulate.
• the lateral through-openings 18, 19, front 20 and rear 21 communicate the outside with a space located below the support 8, and where the seats 9 to 13 are located.
• Such a support 8 accentuates the effect of strong sensations since the passengers can have their clear field of vision on the lateral sides, at the front and at the rear of the vehicle 3.
• the support 8 is shaped to suspend the seats 9 to 13 to the hanger 7 of the vehicle 3.
• the support 8 may comprise a parallelepiped-shaped roof provided with an upper surface 16 provided with fastening means connected to the hanger 7 to secure the roof to the hanger 7.
• the roof also has a lower surface 17 opposite the upper surface 16, and on which are suspended the seats 9 to 13.
• the support 8 can include a suspension structure formed by an assembly of bars or tubes, forming a suspension frame connected to the hanger 7 and the seats 9 to 13.
• the support 8 may comprise a protective structure 22 of the seats 9 to 13 mounted on the support 8.
• the protective structure 22 protects the seats 9 to 13, and the passengers, when the vehicle 3 is swaying, especially when the vehicle 3 arrives at the station or when the vehicle ule 3 crosses a pylon.
• the protective structure 22 can be made from cylindrical elements, such as tubes, bars, solid rods, or a combination of all three.
• cylinder is meant a solid bounded by a cylindrical surface generated by a set of parallel straight lines, denoted generators, based on a closed planar curve, denoted as a director, and two planes intersecting the generatrices.
• the protective structure 22 comprises a base 23 forming a frame around the seats 9 to 13.
• the frame 23 may be continuous or discontinuous.
• the base 23 is connected to the support 8 by means of cylindrical elements, preferably four tubes 24 located at the four corners of the support 8.
• FIG. 2 shows a advantageous embodiment which accentuates even more more thrills.
• the vehicle 3 comprises at least one rotary seat 9 to 13.
• all the seats 9 to 13 are rotatable, as shown in FIG. 2.
• certain seats 9 to 13, or a only seat 9 are fixedly mounted on the support 8, for example seats 9 to 13 for the passengers responsible for the operation of the vehicle 3.
• the seats 9 to 13 rotating are rotatably mounted on the support 8 around axes parallel to an axis of rotation R.
• the axis of rotation R of the rotary seats 9 to 13 may be perpendicular to the longitudinal axis L of the hanger 7.
• the axis of rotation R is perpendicular to an axis d A hooking A extending along the aerial cable 2.
• the attachment pin A is an axis along which the towing cable 2 extends when the attachment device 6 is hooked to the tow cable 2.
• the vehicle 3 includes an inclination system 15, illustrated in Figures 2 and 3, configured to rotate the rotary seats 9 to 13 relative to respective reference positions of the seats 9 to 13 rotating.
• the rotary seats 9 to 13 occupy their reference position when their backs are vertical so that the passengers can sit, as shown in FIGS. 1 and 3.
• the inclination system 15 comprises a set of controlled gears.
• the inclination system 15 comprises cylinders, hydraulic or pneumatic, or electric motors configured to control the gears. More particularly, the inclination system 15 is mounted on the 8. In a variant, the inclination system 15 is housed inside the roof of the support 8. The inclination system 15 can thus incline the rotating seats 9 to 13, once the passengers are seated and before the beginning of the movement of the vehicle 3, then the tilting system 15 can bring the seats 9 to 13 rotating in their reference positions to embark passengers again.
• the inclination system 15 can incline the rotary seats 9 to 13 in the direction of the ground.
• the backrest and seat of the rotary seat 9 to 13 are inclined together towards the ground, so that the passengers are in a pronounced position facing the ground. That is to say that the field of view of the passengers is oriented towards the ground. This inclination accentuates the strong sensations.
• the facility 1 may further include a passenger boarding station, shown in Figures 2 and 3, and a passenger landing station, not shown for simplification purposes.
• a station may comprise a floor 41 mounted movably within the station, between a retracted position, illustrated in FIG. 3, in which the vehicle 3 enters the station, and an extended position, illustrated in FIG. 3, in which the floor 41 is located below the seats 9 to 13.
• the floor 41 is retracted so as not to impede the entry of the vehicle 3 in the station.
• the floor 41 is deployed under the seats 9 to 13, and the passengers can disembark the vehicle 3 by walking on the floor 41 to reach a platform 42 of the station.
• the station equipped with a mobile floor 41 also comprises a mechanism 43 for moving the floor 41.
• the mechanism 43 includes jacks configured to retract and deploy the movable floor 41.

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