Aerial tramway installation
AssigneeVon Roll Transportsysteme AG
InventorGottfried Hofmann
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Abstract
An aerial tramway installation has two spaced apart terminals with a transport track interconnecting the terminals. A rescue track extends along the transport track and is elevated with respect thereto. Transport cars having transport cabins are movable along the transport track and a rescue car having a rescue cabin is movable along the rescue track. A rescue vessel can be lowered and lifted between the rescue cabin and a transport car on the transport track. The passenger capacity of the transport cabin and of the rescue cabin are substantially equal, whereas the rescue vessel is supported outside of the rescue cabin and is able to transport two persons at each lifting operation.
Claims17
An aerial tramway installation comprising:
- two spaced apart terminals;
- a transport track interconnecting said terminals;
- a rescue track extending along said transport track and elevated with respect thereto;
- transport cars having transport cabins movable along said transport track and;
- a rescue car having a rescue cabin movable along said rescue track, a rescue vessel and means for lowering and lifting said rescue vessel between said rescue cabin and a transport car on said transport track.
An aerial tramway comprising:
- a pair of parallel transport tracks;
- transport cars having passenger cabins and movable on said transport tracks;
- a rescue track extending along said transport tracks in transversely and upwardly spaced relation;
- a rescue car having a rescue cabin and movable along said rescue track and
- a rescue unit associated with said rescue car including a rescue vessel movable between a respective one of said transport cars and said rescue car, to thereby permit a transfer of passengers between a passenger cabin and said rescue cabin.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.