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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166886 | Wear monitoring system, cable operated transportation system and a method for monitoring wear-prone parts therein A wear monitoring system is provided for monitoring the wear and/or abrasion of at least one system component of a cable operated transportation system, where the system component is subjected to wear and/or abrasion and is mounted in rotating and/or circulating man... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8082853 | Hold-down device for the cable guide in cable-drawn transport systems A pressure device for conduction of the cable in cable traction transportation systems including a pressure-roller (12) of the cable (7) supported elastically on a fixed support (2) and a counter-roller (6) supported on the fixed support ... | 12/27/2011 |
| 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 |
| 5868381 | Adjustable angle logging block A logging block (16) formed in accordance with the present invention includes a frame (56) having a first end and an opposing second end and a sheave (50) having an upper side (58) and an opposing lower side (62) coupled to the second end of the frame suc... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5819668 | System for the transportation of persons and/or goods Persons and/or goods are transported in a plurality of vehicles with runn wheels rolling on a track, such as on rails. A continuously moving, endless traction cable drives the vehicles on the track, and a clamping assembly selectively disconnects the veh... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5690031 | Aerial cableway having a movement take up module The chairs or the cabins of an overhead cable transport installation are driven on a transfer rail in a station by means of friction sheaves staggered along the travel circuit and interconnected by a belt drive arrangement. The rotational movement of the ... | 11/25/1997 |
| 5638756 | Rope traction device A rope traction device includes a sheave having an annular rope receiving groove and being driven and rotated with a traction rope received in the rope receiving groove to cause the traction rope to be wound on the sheave and the rope traction device ther... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5626081 | Rope traction device A rope traction device includes a sheave having an annular rope receiving groove and being driven and rotated with a traction rope received in the rope receiving groove to cause the traction rope to be wound on the sheave and the rope traction device ther... | 05/06/1997 |
| 5515790 | Rope traction device A rope traction device includes a sheave having an annular rope receiving groove and being driven and rotated with a traction rope received in the rope receiving groove to cause the traction rope to be wound on the sheave and the rope traction device ther... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5515789 | Grip guiding device for aerial cableways A single-cable aerial cableway including guide rails forming a lead-in guide, secured to a stationary cable support structure. The lead-in guide cooperates with a wheel secured to the grip so as to stabilize and position the grip and the load before they ... | 05/14/1996 |
| 5224426 | Aerial cableway and method for filming subjects in motion An aerial cableway system for filming subjects in motion over moderate to long distances. An endless cable is tensioned between two support structures in an elongated loop. A cable carriage is suspended from the endless cable and is in contact with both s... | 07/06/1993 |
| 5172640 | Overhead cable transport installation having two successive sections The hauling-carrier cable of a gondola lift or chair lift is subdivided in two endless cable loops operating together. These cable loops are linked by a technical relay including two bull wheels or a bull wheel with two grooves, one for each cable loop. T... | 12/22/1992 |
| 5060576 | Detachable cable-car A terminal of a detachable cable-car with two or more carrier-hauling ropes including bull-wheels located underneath the floor. After the cars have been uncoupled the carrier-hauling ropes run on downward diversion means which direct the ropes towards the... | 10/29/1991 |
| 4864937 | Aerial tramway having haul rope in vertical plane and carrier unit with rope engaging support sheaves which disengage haul at towers An aerial tramway (21) having an endless loop haul rope (41,42,43,44) supported for movement between end terminals (27,36) and preferably for movement over at least one intermediate support tower (75) with the haul rope oriented in a substantially vertica... | 09/12/1989 |
| 4802416 | Cableway having a multipass lift cable In the cableway having a multistrand lift cable, especially a double strand ift cable, with a plurality of couplable and uncouplable conveying means, the lift cable is guided at a driving station by at least two drive disks coupled with each other. The lif... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4777886 | Apparatus for supporting cables and transportation installation with aerial cables comprising an apparatus of this type An aerial transportation system including two generally parallel endless aerial carrier and traction cables is disclosed in which apparatus is respectively associated with each of the cables for separately supporting each cable. The supporting apparatus a... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4771701 | Pulley support head in a cable conveyor The pulley support head according to the invention is adapted to permit easy adjustment of the orientation of the pulley at any time, even when the pulley is turning. The support head comprises a rigid frame (11) having a front extremity (13) which carrie... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4742777 | Double mono-cable aerial transportation system An aerial cable transportation system is disclosed that includes at least one vehicle supported on a carriage through a suspension with a plurality of clamps for disengageably securing the carriage to a pair of endless carrier and traction cables that are... | 05/10/1988 |
| 4716997 | Conductive idler sheave Plastic material is molded in the form of a sheave (20) about a wire steel brush (10), and interspersed between the bristles (14) thereof. A conductive path is provided to a cable (26) against which the sheave is urged via the bristles, which extend radia... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4640197 | Rocker arm assembly with a fixing collar for an aerial tramway installation A rocker arm assembly (12), supporting the rope of an aerial tramway installation, comprises sheaves (14, 16), the spindles (18, 20) of which are fitted enabling their disassembly, cantilevered from an arm (22) fitted on the inward facing side of the shea... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4462314 | Rocker arm assembly for an aerial tramway A rocker arm assembly for support of the haul rope of an aerial tramway or the like is disclosed. The assembly includes rocker arms, rope supporting sheaves rotatably mounted to the rocker arms and cantilevered from an inwardly facing side of the rocker a... | 07/31/1984 |
| 4347938 | Running skyline intermediate support and multi-span carriage A yarder is employed with a running skyline provided with a carriage. The running skyline has an intermediate suspended support consisting of a hanger bar with a shoe pivotally connected to the lower end of the hanger bar by a transverse shaft. The shoe h... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4329926 | Biased sheave frame for aerial tram A compound frame to support a plurality of sheaves on a tower of an aerial tram with a predetermined bias between each sheave and a supported transiting cable. The sheaves are supported in paired opposed groups with each sheave of a group in substantial o... | 05/18/1982 |
| 4188018 | Means for accelerating the speed on a ski jump An apparatus for towing a skier on skis to a ski-jump takeoff at an accelerating speed comparable to that given by a starting tower comprising an endless rope tow driven by a motor and transmission which supplies a pre-set constantly increasing accelerati... | 02/12/1980 |
