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US 11,142,220 B2Granted
Cable transportation system
AssigneeLeitner S.P.A.
InventorsNikolaus Erharter, Hartmut Wieser, Giuseppe Conte
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Abstract
A cable transportation system without a hauling cable and comprising: a plurality of transporting units; two supporting cables for supporting the transporting units in a suspended configuration; a plurality of trolleys, wherein each trolley supports a transporting unit in a suspended configuration and comprises rolls configured for resting and rolling on the supporting cables and at least one electric motor configured for moving the trolley along the supporting cables.
Claims9
A cable transportation system comprising:
- a transporting unit;
- two supporting cables;
- a trolley configured to support the transportation unit in a suspended configuration, the trolley including:
- a plurality of rolls configured to rest and roll on the two supporting cables, and at least one electric motor configured to move the trolley along the two supporting cables;
- and
- a power supply comprising a power cable extending along an entire path defined by the two supporting cables, wherein the trolley is associated with a pantograph socket configured to electrically couple the at least one electric motor and the power cable.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.