JPS644609Y2 - - Google Patents

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] This invention relates to a shock absorbing device for a carrier of a chair lift for transporting skiers and the like.

Chair lifts and the like generally have pulleys placed at the foot of the mountain and at the top of the mountain, and are driven by winding a cable between the two pulleys.
A chair is fixed to this rope using a rope gripping machine,
Driving. A platform was set up near the pulley at the foot of the mountain, and passengers waited at the platform facing backwards. sit down on the seat. The seat of the chair is constructed by slats being passed between frames on both sides and fixed.

By the way, in recent years, in order to improve the efficiency of passenger transport, the operating speed of cables has tended to increase, and the impact when the chair hits a passenger's foot has become too much to ignore. Attempts have been made to attach shock absorbers to alleviate the impact.

However, conventionally used shock absorbers are solid bodies made of rubber or the like and have low shock absorbing performance, and do not function as a shock absorber sufficiently. Furthermore, these conventional shock absorbers require mounting members made of separate materials such as bolts to attach to the chair, making the structure of the shock absorber mounting portion complicated.

This idea was made in view of the above circumstances, and it has excellent shock-absorbing performance, does not require attachment members made of separate materials, and simplifies the structure of the shock-absorber attachment part. It is an object of the present invention to provide a cushioning device for a chair lift that can be used as a chair lift.

Corresponding to this purpose, the cushioning device for the chair lift of the present invention includes a cushioning body made of an elastic material, having a sealed or open internal space, and provided with an attachment portion, which is elastically acted upon at the attachment portion. Therefore, it is characterized by being locked to the slat material at the tip of the seat of the chair lift.

The details of this invention will be explained below with reference to the drawings showing one embodiment.

In FIGS. 1 and 2, 1 is a chair lift, and the chair lift 1 is equipped with a chair 2. The chair 2 is fixedly suspended from a cable 5 via an arm 3 and a cable gripping device 4. A seat portion 7 of a seat 6 is provided at the lower end of the chair 2. A plurality of slat members 11 are fixed to the frame 8 on both sides of the seat 7 by extending them at predetermined intervals. A buffer body 12 is attached to the front end slat member 11a of the plurality of slat members 11 so as to cover the front surface thereof. The buffer body 12 is made of an elastic material such as rubber or plastic, and as shown in FIGS. 3 and 4, it forms a sealed or open space 13 and is attached to the rear end. It has a section 14. The structure of the attachment part 14 differs depending on the shape of the slat material 11a to which it is attached, but in any case, it is necessary to have a structure that can be locked to the slat material 11a using elastic restoring force. In this embodiment, the mounting portion 14 is formed by surrounding a slat material receiving space 15 with a skirt portion 16, and a folded portion 17 is formed at the tip of the skirt portion 16 to embrace the slat material 11a.

The buffer body 12 having such a configuration is made of slat material 11a.
is received in the space 15, the slat material 11a is elastically held by the skirt portion 16, and the edge of the slat material 11a is connected to the skirt portion 16 and the folded portion 17.
By this, the buffer body 12 is secured to the slat material 11a. The buffer body 12 is attached to and detached from the slat material 11a manually by utilizing elastic deformation of the buffer body 12.

Since the carrier shock absorber constructed in this way has a hollow structure, it has much better shock absorbing performance than a solid shock absorber, and requires no mounting member made of a separate material for installation. Since it can be attached manually using elastic restoring force without the need for a shock absorber, the structure of the shock absorber attachment part can be simplified.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

FIG. 1 is a front view of the chair lift, FIG. 2 is a side view of the chair lift, FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of section A in FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view of the buffer body. 1...Cheer lift, 2...Cheer, 6...
...Seat, 7...Seat portion, 11, 11a...Slat material, 12...Buffer, 13...Space, 14...Mounting section, 15...Slat material receiving space, 16...
...Skirt part, 17...Fold part.

Claims (1)

[Scope of utility model registration request] A buffer body made of an elastic material, having a sealed or open internal space, and provided with a mounting portion is latched to a slat material at the tip of the seat of the chair lift by elastic action at the mounting portion. A cushioning device for a chair lift, which is characterized by: