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US 3,937,147 AGranted
Personalized rapid transit system
OwnerBalint Szent-Miklosy, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
A personalized rapid transit system incorporating an interconnected network of rails which are supported in a predetermined three dimensional pattern. A plurality of vehicles which are each adapted to carry at least one person and have a configuration which facilitates the removable nesting of vehicles when not in use are provided. Connection and drive apparatus is on each vehicle and is connected to the network of rails so that the vehicle is suspended from the rail network and is guided and supported thereby during travel and storage.
Claims7
A personalized rapid transit system comprising;
- an interconnected network of rails, support means to locate the rails in a predetermined three-dimensional pattern, a plurality of vehicles with each vehicle adapted to carry at least one person therein and having a configuration which facilitates the removable nesting of vehicles when not in use, each vehicle having a substantially hemispherical portion tapering from an enlarged open end to a rear end of lesser diameter than the opening in the open end, door means on the vehicle shiftable between a position closing the open end to a position exposing the open end and permitting at least the tapered rear end of another vehicle to be placed within the vehicle thereby permitting the vehicles to be stored partially within one another when not in use, and connector and drive means on each vehicle and connected to the network of rails so that the vehicle is suspended from the rail network and is guided and supported thereby during travel and storage.
A personalized rapid transit system comprising;
- an interconnected network of rails, support means to locate the rails in a predetermined three-dimensional pattern, a plurality of vehicles with each vehicle adapted to carry at least one person therein and having a configuration which facilitates the removable nesting of vehicles when not in use, the vehicles being stored partially within one another when not in use, connector and drive means on each vehicle and connected to the network of rails so that the vehicle is suspended from the rail network and is guided and supported thereby during travel and storage, a pair of adjacent doors being provided with each door having an outer configuration substantially in the shape of a spherical segment with the adjacent edges of the doors in abutment when the doors are closed and the distal edge of each door adjacent to the hemispherical portion when the doors are closed, the doors being pivotal to an open position wherein the doors are pivoted away from one another into overlapping relationship to the hemispherical portion of the vehicle to thereby provide an opening between the adjacent edges of the doors to permit entry or exit of a passenger from the vehicle and to facilitate nesting of one vehicle within the other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.