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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5111751 | Linkable clamping device for the coupling of transport means to a mobile cable Transport means are clamped to a movable rope (6) with a clamp capable of coupling. The clamp exhibits clamping jaws (4, 5), where one of the clamping jaws (5) can be pressed against the rope (6) based on the force of a spring (14). This clamping jaw (5) ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 4957047 | Cable transport installation The revolving cable transport installation, for instance a gondola aerial cableway, has the carriages of the gondolas supported upon two adjacently extending support cables. Between both support cables there is arranged a continuously revolving traction c... | 09/18/1990 |
| 4860664 | Haul rope grip assembly for aerial tramway with elastic block jaw actuating means An aerial tramway grip assembly (21) including a gripping head (24) carrying a pair of opposed movable jaws (26, 27) for gripping a haul rope (23) and a resilient biasing assembly (37) biasing the jaws (26, 27) towards a closed position. The improvement i... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4846075 | Lockable load attachment device A load attachment device attaching a person to a safety line to provide a fall-arrest facility, comprises a slipper member for engaging an elongate member for sliding movement therealong, and load sensitive locking member having an unlocked condition peri... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4785737 | Buffered lead-in guide for cableway vehicles Buffered lead-in guide for cableway vehicles constrained to a haulage cable by a hooking device of the clamp type, and provided, in an upper hanging-up portion thereof, with at least one pivot provided with balancing and guide rotary elements acting insid... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4762070 | Transport installation comprising a guide track and circulating cable driven cars A transport installation comprises a guide track and at least one car which moves on the track. A circulating cable is provided near the track and a gripping device on the car grips the cable. Lateral retaining members are fixed to the car and accommodate... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4760798 | Device for the automatic connection of a vehicle to the cable or to each of the two cables of a continuously moving cableway A device for the automatic connection of a vehicle to the cable of a continuously moving cableway comprises a clamp which is constituted by two jaws, an inner one and an outer one, carried by the upper end of the vehicle suspension system, and which is ar... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4741272 | Overhead cable clamp and transport system using the clamp A disconnectable locking clamp disconnectable from an overhead cable onto which it is locked, the clamp having a body with a fixed jaw and a movable jaw and in which the support surface (11) of the fixed jaw (3) has, on the one hand, a first cylindrical s... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4691643 | Rope coupling carriage having concave track between grips A carriage coupling cars to a carrier-hauling rope of a cable-car comprises two grips having protruding parts above the upper face of the rope. A connecting part with a concave running face facilitating the passage of the grips under the compression sheav... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4658733 | Aerial tramway grip assembly A haul rope grip assembly for an aerial tramway is disclosed which is suitable for both detachable and permanent gripping of the tramway haul rope. The assembly includes a gripping head having a pair of relatively spaced apart converging haul rope grippin... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4653406 | Device for the clamping and the automatic catching of vehicles to the driving cable of aerial transport plants A vise is constituted by a stationary jaw and a movable jaw, pivoted to each other, and suitable to be clamped onto a cable by means of the action of at least one spring. The stationary jaw is prolonged into a supporting pin for the vehicles, and the mova... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4641585 | Terminal for a detachable grip chairlift for gondola lift The invention relates to a detachable grip chairlift or gondola lift terminal having a transfer rail extending between the downhill run and the uphill run of the cable. The chair trucks run at slow speed along the transfer rail which comprises a movable r... | 02/10/1987 |
| 4633783 | Device for clamping and supporting a transport apparatus on a conveying cable On the main shaft (2) of a clamping device (1), a guide-pulley (14) is provided. At the end of the main shaft, an inner clamping jaw (3) is rotatably mounted. An outer clamping jaw (7) is hinged to the inner clamping jaw (3) and connected rotation-fast to... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4512259 | Automatic transport system comprising cable-drawn non-motorized vehicles A transport system comprising cable-drawn non-motorized vehicles guided independently of the cable and coupled to and uncoupled from the cable automatically. The vehicle comprises a progressively engaged clamp gripping a cable, a braked wheel, and support... | 04/23/1985 |
| 4444302 | Cable drive systems for moving walkways A cable drive system suitable for use with moving walkways wherein a plurality of serially connected platforms (10) travel in a circuitous path of travel that includes change-of-direction regions (18, 20) connected by constant speed zones is disclosed. Th... | 04/24/1984 |
| 4441430 | Aerial monocable transport installation Aerial monocable chairlift or gondola lift having detachable grips for coupling the chairs or gondolas to the continuously moving cable. Each grip, in the form of a plier, has a pair of jaws, the outer profile of the jaws being so designed that the grip p... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4297951 | Detachable grip for coupling a carriage The invention relates to a detachable grip of a mono-cable transport installation. The grip has a pair of jaws which is both pivotally mounted on a spindle and urged into a clamping position by means of a compression spring which acts on a piston connecte... | 11/03/1981 |
| 4126850 | Automatic release mechanism for a tether Warning lights are releasably secured, by means of clamps, along the length of a cable employed as a tether for a balloon. The cable passes through a relatively stationary, conically shaped cam at the base of the cable. As the balloon is winched back to e... | 11/21/1978 |
