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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7832339 | Automatic cable car facility Automatic cable transport facility along a closed loop line, including vehicles that can be disengaged at a set rate in stations after moving along a disengaged circuit where they are driven at low speed along disembarkation and embarkation platforms. Each station i... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7806055 | Rope transport installation with grouping of vehicles before loading/unloading and method for controlling such an installation A transport installation comprising a continuous running rope supporting vehicles arranged at intervals along the rope with a preset running rate, comprises: a vehicle grouping section, arranged between a slowing-down section and a... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7802523 | Cable railway system A cable railway system has two or more stations and at least one carrying cable and a conveying cable extending between the stations and guided in the stations by way of deflection pulleys. At least one of the pulleys is driven. Vehicles, such as cable cars or chair... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7559281 | Transport installation with aerial rope conveying chairs and gondola cars A transport installation with a continuous running aerial rope supports chairs and gondola cars coupled by detachable grips. The rope extends in a closed loop between two bull-wheels, with an up-line and a down-line. The installation presents loading/unloading termi... | 07/14/2009 |
| 7398958 | Multiple sheave assembly system with compression and support sheaves of an aerial ropeway transport installation rope A range of mixed support and compression sheave assemblies is formed from standard 2S2C modules each comprising: two compression sheaves (11) and two support sheaves (12) respectively mounted rotating freely on the en... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389729 | Method for heating a gondola of a cableway system, a gondola suitable therefor and a cableway system A method for heating a gondola of a cableway system and a gondola that is suitable for carrying out the process, as well as a cableway system with gondolas of the type. In order to increase passengers' comfort when being conveyed, the floor or parts of the floor is ... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7337726 | Wind farm An offshore wind farm comprises a plurality of wind turbines. In order to provide such a wind farm with transport between separate wind turbines that can be effected more safely and with less dependence on weather, cable connection is provided between the wind turbi... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7325498 | Hybrid energy off highway vehicle propulsion circuit A system and method for retrofitting a propulsion circuit of an existing Off Highway Vehicle to enable the propulsion circuit to operate as a hybrid energy Off Highway Vehicle propulsion circuit. The hybrid propulsion circuit includes a primary power source, and a t... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7299752 | Trolley retrieval system A trolley retrieval system for transporting or returning trolleys from a finish area back to a start area for traveling along a cable. The systems may include a cable held in suspension between the first and second supports. A retrieval line may be suspended in a cl... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7252187 | Delivery system for use in motor vehicles This is a device that is designed as a conveyance system for use in the interior of any type of vehicle and other myriad uses such as a home, warehouse, closet, etc. The conveyance system is anchored to the interior roofline of a vehicle; it has a conveyor such as a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7240621 | Personal lift device A personal lift device is disclosed having a motor having an output shaft. A gearing system is operatively connected to the output shaft for increasing torque. A strap for suspending a weight is wound onto a spool and rotating the spool extends and retracts the stra... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7234605 | Logging grapple carriage A grappling carriage that is relatively lightweight and adapted to forcefully close first and second grapple legs with a log or a bundle of logs contained therein. The grappling carriage has a self-contained power supply that is remotely controlled by the operator. ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7156714 | Surfer lift system A rider is suspended a distance beneath a lift cable and moved over a region of water with incoming waves. The distance that the rider is suspended beneath the lift cable is controllably increased and, thereafter, the rider enters the water, such as to surf the wave... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7114451 | Apparatus for monitoring the locking of the safety bar of a chair in a cableway system An apparatus monitors the locking of the safety bar of the chairs of an aerial cableway system. A first sensor determines the occupancy of the chairs and a second sensor determines the locking of the safety bar. The sensor output signals from these two sensors are l... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7069704 | Roofing rail transportation system A rail transportation system particularly suited for transporting roofing materials upon an uncompleted roof. Sections of tubes form rails, allowing several rail cars carrying various roofing materials to transport those roofing materials from the edge of the roof t... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7036435 | Drive device of the bull-wheel of a single carrying-hauling rope chair lift with fixed rope grips A bull-wheel of a fixed carrying-hauling rope chair lift is driven by a geared motor mechanism having a coaxial shaft line extending perpendicularly to the bull-wheel in a substantially vertical direction. The geared motor mechanism is composed of an electric motor ... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7021510 | Cable traction apparatus and method A high force traction apparatus which operates along the cable linear axis with no cable bending. The cable is encircled with links from several looping chain drives. The links have a concave friction surface to match the cable radius. Rollers apply pressure to mult... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7004077 | Cable car system A cable car system has two pairs of supporting cables that are respectively anchored in a valley station and in a mountain station. Cabins or similar people movers travel along the supporting cables while they are coupled to a self-contained traction cable. The cabi... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6945499 | Satellite stand-off tether system A tethered spacecraft is tethered to a base using a semirigid stand-off and a moving tether operated as a belt drive and operated in tension so that the tethered is precisely positioned in tension from the base spacecraft. ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6938554 | Method for detaching towable device from ski lift and detaching member The object of the invention is a releasing method and a releasing member for releasing a towed device from a cableway at a desired point without an assisting person or without stopping the lift. According to the method a towing member (2) connected to the tow... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6907309 | Textile machine with at least one service unit The invention relates to a textile machine with at least one first service unit capable of traveling along a guide rail alongside a plurality of processing stations of the textile machine, and with a control system for the control of the travel movement of the servi... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6845721 | Ground embedded wire tracks for a shelving system having mobile shelf units The shelving system has a number of electrically powered shelf units movable over ground, each shelf unit including an electronic circuit controlling the displacement of the shelf unit, a power cord connected to the shelf unit with of a power terminal rod, for feedi... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6729241 | Aerial cableway system with at least one load-bearing and conveying cable moving between a valley station and a mountain station An aerial cableway system has at least one load-bearing and conveying cable that is moved between a valley station and a mountain station, which is guided over deflection pulleys in the stations, and transportation devices that can be coupled to the load-bearing and... | 05/04/2004 |
| 6679182 | Amusement device An amusement device (1) has one or several vehicles (2). The drive device (13) of the vehicles is configured as a high-performance catapult drive (22) which is provided with one or more hydromotors (24) and a traction mechanism (20) that has to be detacha... | 01/20/2004 |
| 6644207 | Installation for carrying persons from a higher station towards a lower station Installation for carrying persons down from a mountain station into a valley station along a guide rail which is born by supports or the like at a distance above the ground. Individual sections of the guide rail are connected to one another in an articula... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6494143 | Bolonkin's method movement of vehicles and installation for it The method and facilities for movement of vehicles over long distances are presented. The Method is comprised of the following steps: (a) connecting at least two main rollers displaced over a long distance: one in a port of departure and one in a port of arriv... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6427601 | Installation for conveying persons The installation conveys persons from a valley station to a mountain station and for carries individuals from the mountain station to the valley station via carriages that are guided along a track formed by a running rail. The installation has a cableway ... | 08/06/2002 |
| 6397756 | Amusement device To move a rail-borne vehicle (2) over a preferably ascending partial section, a finite chain section (8) is pulled in a stationary guide (13) in parallel to the rail (23) using a cable (9). The vehicle (2) engages the chain section (8) via a chain hook (1... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6393995 | Apparatus and method for use in aerial ropeways An aerial ropeway wherein oppositely located first and second sheave trains are supported on a crossarm wherein first and second sheave train supporting apparatus are pivotally mounted at fixed spaced apart locations on the crossarm and the first and seco... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6363859 | Automatic clamping device for cableway systems of the two-cable type An automatic clamping device for cableway systems including a pair of jaws. One jaw of the pair of jaws is driven in opening and closing through at least one arm, which is capable of rotating around at least one articulated joint. The rotation occurs due ... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6363858 | Transport device comprising at least one carriage or like vehicle circulating on a cable A transport device includes a vehicle on an elongated support element extending between a departure station and an arrival station, the departure station being located at a higher elevation than the arrival station. The arrival station includes at least o... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6360669 | Installation for moving persons from a mountain station into a valley station The installation for moving persons from a mountain station to a valley station has a supporting cable which is guided via supporting pylons or the like. Carriages, to which there are attached transport assemblies, can be displaced along the supporting ca... | 03/26/2002 |
| 6345578 | Double-acting trolley to support one-cable installations and in particular chair lifts and cabin lifts A double-acting trolley for a one-cable installation support for chair lifts and cabin lifts, includes a bearing member mounted in a swinging manner to a one-cable installation support, and supporting two equalizers respectively below and above the one ca... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6237503 | Garbage and debris conveying system This invention relates generally to a conveying system for moving garbage from a house to a road. A support structure includes interlocking sections that can be interconnected to provide a desired length. A regulating system provides two distance limits f... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6237502 | Sheave arrangement suitable for slack pulling carriage A sheave arrangement having a driving drum and a tension wheel. The driving drum includes a circumferential groove that has two side walls disposed at an angle, alpha. A line preferably is placed between the drum and tension wheel such that a substantiall... | 05/29/2001 |
| 6189455 | Transport apparatus An easily carried and assembled apparatus for use in moving materials between two elevated locations, such as windows of spaced building, that includes a sending assembly positionable across a window in a first building, and a receiving assembly positione... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6152044 | Skier towing system A system for towing skiers up shallow slopes, comprising a continuously moving rope with a towing run resting on and sliding along the surface of the snow, and a return run held in a raised position by line towers. A safety device stops the system should ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6109699 | Tow line equipped remote mining machine and method A method and apparatus for advancing cables and hoses to a remotely operated mining machine and retrieval of the machine in case of accident, and for remote haulage of material in a self-propelled vehicle guided within a mine opening, so as to avoid inter... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6024022 | Disengageable clamp of a traction cable type conveyor A traction cable-type vehicle for a reserved lane conveyor is equipped with a disengageable clamp secured below the vehicle. A mobile jaw of the clamp is designed as an elbow lever mounted in a swiveling manner on a fixed pin, and is arranged above the ca... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5957056 | Combined underground (over-ground) vehicle for public transport, for horizontal and steep metropolitan terrain An underground, on-ground or over-ground public transportation train-like vehicle that can move both on steep-slope terrain and horizontal or semi-horizontal terrain along a straight line or almost straight line route when seen from above, while remaining... | 09/28/1999 |
