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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6321658 | Mobile jaw vice for clamping and unclamping vehicles to and from a traction cable of a transport system A mobile jaw (11,12) vice (10) for clamping and unclamping vehicles (19) to and from a traction cable (13) of a single-cable or two-cable transport system, such as a chair lift, a funicular cableway and a city transport system or a telpher, comprising a l... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6290425 | Detachable clamp with a leaf spring The disengageable clamp of a cable car or chair lift has a control lever 17 carrying the movable jaw 14, articulated on the fixed jaw 13. At least one flexion leaf spring 23 is interposed between the clamp body 10 and the control lever 17 in order to forc... | 09/18/2001 |
| 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 |
| 5568771 | Detachable grip for coupling cars or chairs of a gondola lift or chairlift A detachable grip of a gondola lift or chairlift has a movable jaw urged towards a fixed jaw by a pair of compression springs. The movable jaw is rigidly secured to one end of an operating lever, which pivots in a vertical plane containing the grip body t... | 10/29/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5452662 | Device for coupling a gondola or a chair to the overhead cable of a cableway system A device for coupling a ferry, such as a gondola or chair, to the hoisting r load cable of an overhead cableway system includes a clamping body with rollers. A first clamping jaw is rigidly secured. A second clamping jaw can be swiveled relative to the fir... | 09/26/1995 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4403552 | Detachable grip assembly and method A grip assembly and method for detachably mounting a chair, gondola or the like to a movable cable is disclosed. The grip assembly includes a movable jaw, spring biasing means coupled to bias the jaw to a closed position, and jaw actuating means in the fo... | 09/13/1983 |
| 4120247 | Clamp coupling on a suspension gear of a circular suspension railway There is disclosed a clamp coupling wherein the coupling of the suspension gear of a cable car to the haulage-and-support cable is effected and sustained as a result of the net weight of the suspension gear. The coupling includes a fixed clamp jaw affixed... | 10/17/1978 |
| 3942452 | Ski lift A ski lift is provided having cars riding in a track up the slope by means of a rope trained about two wheels at opposite ends of the slope. The cars are manually engaged with the rope but are so designed that they may not be manually disengaged from the ... | 03/09/1976 |
