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US 4,049,999 AGranted
Speed control system for a chairlift
AssigneePomagalski S.A.
InventorBruno Thibaudon
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Abstract
A speed control system for a chairlift which reproduces automatically at the arrival of a seat in the disembarking station the speed which this seat had in the embarking station. The speed information is applied to a shift-register or a magnetic recorder which restores this information to control the speed at the arrival.
Claims5
A speed control system for a chairlift having seats hung from an endless cable extending between an embarking station and a disembarking station comprising:
- a motor for driving said cable
- means for changing the speed of the motor
- means for detecting the speed at the passage of a seat in the embarking station
- a storage device for storing the speed information received from said detecting means and for restoring this speed information at the arrival of said seat in the disembarking station to automatically reproduce at the arrival the speed of the seat at the departure.
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