Transverse elevator system
AssigneeVardon, Inc.
InventorDillis Victor Allen
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Abstract
A transverse elevator system having generally horizontal and generally vertical components in a building with horizontal pathways guiding first passenger vehicles on each floor that connect to a plurality of vertical pathways guiding second passenger vehicles intersecting the horizontal pathways at stops at the points of intersection, wherein passenger transfer from horizontal to vertical movement is achieved by locking the first vehicles to the second vehicles with passenger chutes defining panels that extend from the vertical pathways and lock the first vehicles to the vertical pathways. In a second embodiment, passengers are carried in a separate enclosed CAPULSEs that shift from the first vehicles to the second vehicles obviating the need for complex horizontal to vertical drive transfer mechanisms.
Claims21
A transverse elevator system having generally horizontal and generally vertical components, comprising:
- a horizontal pathway for guiding at least one first object vehicle, a generally vertical pathway for guiding at least one second object vehicle in a vertical pathway without any horizontal movement, said horizontal pathway including at least one stop at said vertical pathway, said one stop including an extension forming a pathway for objects passing between the first object vehicle and the second object vehicle and extending from the vertical pathway for engaging at least one of the first object vehicle and stabilizing said first object vehicle at said one stop relative to said extension to facilitate the transfer of objects from the first object vehicle to one of said second object vehicle in said vertical pathway.
A transverse elevator system having generally horizontal and generally vertical components, comprising:
- a horizontal pathway for guiding a first object vehicle, a generally vertical pathway for guiding a second object vehicle, said horizontal pathway including a stop at said vertical pathway, an object carrying capsule in said first object vehicle, and means for transferring the capsule from said first object vehicle at said stop to said second object vehicle when the first object vehicle is adjacent said vertical pathway at said stop, whereby operating mechanisms for the horizontal and vertical pathways remain unaffected as objects are transferred from the horizontal to the vertical direction.
A transverse elevator system having generally horizontal and generally vertical components, comprising:
- a horizontal pathway for guiding a plurality of first object vehicles, a generally vertical pathway for guiding at least one second object vehicle, said horizontal pathway including at least one stop at said one vertical pathway, wherein the stop includes a first side track from the horizontal pathway to the one vertical pathway permitting the first vehicles to pass the vertical pathway on the horizontal pathway, when a first vehicle is on the side track at said one stop to minimize first vehicle slowing by first vehicles located at the stop at the vertical pathway, and a second side track from said one vertical pathway back to the horizontal pathway permitting the first vehicle on the first side track to return to the horizontal pathway.
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