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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 5520116 | Detachable grip for a vehicle towed by a cable Vehicles of a passenger transport installation are hauled along a track by a traction cable. Each vehicle is equipped with a detachable grip having a pair of jaws for clamping the traction cable. A grip control mechanism comprises a toggle device with a s... | 05/28/1996 |
| 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 |
| 4926754 | Cable way for suspended vehicles A cable way for transporting suspended vehicles or cars includes a moving pulling cable and a guide element defining a long travel axis and formed at least in part as a support cable. The cable way at certain locations is adjustable in height and to both ... | 05/22/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4092929 | Transport installation with triple grip for coupling the vehicles to haulage cables Transport installation comprising individual passive vehicles each equipped with a triple grip for coupling the vehicle to a main haulage cable extending along the track or to auxiliary haulage cables for instance acceleration and deceleration cables in a... | 06/06/1978 |
