Passenger cable transportation system
AssigneeLeitner S.P.A.
InventorsNikolaus Erharter, Denis Ribot
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Abstract
A passenger cable transportation system, the cable system comprising: at least one cabin for transporting passengers; at least one station for passengers boarding and landing from the cabin; two lateral guides facing each other and configured to guide the cabin into the station along an advancing direction, wherein there is a clearance between the lateral guides and the cabin; and at least one blocking device configured to block the cabin in relation to the lateral guides at least along a direction transversal to the advancing direction level with at least one part of the station.
Claims20
A passenger cable transportation system comprising:
- a passenger station;
- two U-shaped lateral guides facing each other and configured to guide a cabin along an advancing direction into the passenger station where the cabin traverses the advancing direction in a U-shape, wherein a clearance is defined between the U-shaped lateral guides and the cabin;
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- at least one blocking device comprising a pusher that is at least one of:
- integrated in a platform of the passenger station and in a first one of the U-shaped lateral guides associated with at least one part of the passenger station, wherein when the cabin is stopped from advancing at the passenger station, the pusher is configured to selectively push the cabin in abutment against a second one of the U-shaped lateral guides to block oscillations of the cabin in relation to the U-shaped lateral guides at least along a direction transversal to the advancing direction and a cabin pushing surface of the pusher is moveable from a retracted position substantially within a vertical wall of the at least one of the platform and the first one of the U-shaped lateral guides to a projecting position wherein the cabin pushing surface of the pusher is in contact with a portion of the cabin.
A passenger cable transportation system blocking device comprising:
- a pusher that is at least one of:
- integrated in a platform of a passenger station and in a first one of two U-shaped lateral guides associated with at least one part of the passenger station, wherein the two U-shaped lateral guides face each other to guide a cabin along an advancing direction into the passenger station where the cabin traverses the advancing direction in a U-shape and when a clearance is defined between the U-shaped lateral guides and the cabin is stopped from advancing at the passenger station, the pusher is configured to selectively push the cabin in abutment against a second one of the two U-shaped lateral guides to block oscillations of the cabin in relation to the U-shaped lateral guides at least along a direction transversal to the advancing direction and a cabin pushing surface of the pusher is moveable from a retracted position substantially within a vertical wall of the at least one of the platform and the first one of two U-shaped lateral guides to a projecting position wherein the cabin pushing surface of the pusher is in contact with a portion of the cabin.
A passenger cable transportation system blocking device comprising:
- a substantially U-shaped clamp associated with at least one part of a passenger station, such that when a clearance is defined between two U-shaped lateral guides and a cabin is stopped advancing at the passenger station, the clamp is configured to grip, at least along a direction transversal to an advancing direction, a portion of the cabin in relation to the two U-shaped lateral guides, wherein the two U-shaped lateral guides face each other and are configured to guide the cabin along the advancing direction into the passenger station where the cabin traverses the advancing direction in a U-shape.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.