Cabin for accommodating passengers

Details Cabin for accommodating passengers Cabin for accommodating passengers

1984-12-13

1987-04-07

Reese, Randolph A.

Railway rolling stock

Special car bodies

Passenger

49262, 49340, 1051491, B60N 500, B61D 1700, E05F 1300

Patent

active

046551441

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BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The present invention broadly relates to cabins for accommodating passengers and, more specifically, pertains to a new and improved construction of a passenger car or gondola for transport apparatuses or media.
Generally speaking, the cabin of the present invention is for accommodating passengers of a transport medium, such as a gondola lift or aerial cable railway or the like, and comprises a doorway, at least one door member for closing the doorway and a guide means associated with each door member for translatably guiding the door member. The cabin of the present invention also comprises a sensing member for sensing the control members of the stations, door actuating means operatively connected with the sensing member for opening the door member when entering a station and for closing the door member when departing a station and means defining a vertical pivot axis. The door actuating means has at least one pivot arm pivotably mounted to the cabin to pivot about the vertical pivot axis. The pivot arm comprises a vertical pin and is hinged to the door member by the vertical pin. The cabin of the present invention also comprises a floor structure, a roof structure, a structural frame connecting the floor structure with the roof structure, two mutually opposite sidewalls and two mutually opposite end walls arranged between the floor structure and the roof structure and a doorway formed in at least one of the sidewalls. Each of the sidewalls meets each of the end walls at edge regions thereof and profiled section members extend along these edge regions and serve to join the sidewalls with the end walls. The end walls are convexly curved.
Passenger cars or gondolas for transport media, namely aerial cable railways, are known from the Swiss Pat. Nos. 569,603, No. 603,398 and No. 626,842, which comprise a cabin with a floor, two sidewalls, two end walls and a roof. Swiss Pat. No. 569,603 corresponds to U.S. Pat. No. 3,871,324 and Swiss Pat. No. 626,842 corresponds to U.S. Pat. No. 4,327,648. One sidewall of such gondolas is provided with a door opening which is closeable with a one or two leaved door. The door leaves are either pivotable about a pivot axis which is stationary with respect to the gondola cabin or else is translatable along a horizontal guide rigidly mounted on the gondola cabin. Control members are arranged at the stations of such transport media. The gondolas are equipped with sensing members with which they can sense these control members. These sensing members are in operative connection with the door leaves by means of an actuating device so that the door leaves are automatically opened when arriving in a station and are automatically closed again when departing.
If the door leaves are pivotable about a pivot axis which is stationary with respect to the gondola and, when opening in a station, are opened outwardly, they swing relatively far out into the station. Spatial requirements of the stations are thus increased and measures must be taken in order that the automatically opening door leaves do not injure any of the passengers waiting in the station.
In those known cabins in which the door leaves are translatable in relation to the gondola cabin, the sidewalls delimiting the door opening are equipped with guides for the door leaves. The door leaves and their guides must be at least partially arranged on the exterior of the sidewall. It is then difficult to protect the guides against climatic influences and, especially in aerial cable railways for winter operation, against snow and ice. When the door leaves are situated on the exterior of the sidewalls, their edges form shoulders in relation to the sidewalls which increase wind resistance, which has a disadvantageous effect, especially in strong winds. Furthermore, sliding door leaves situated on the exterior of the sidewalls increase the width of the gondola cabins. A greater width of the gondola, however, in turn increases spatial requirements in the stations and for their storage, i.e. accommodation of the g

REFERENCES:
patent: 4087939 (1978-05-01), Elguindy et al.
patent: 4327648 (1982-05-01), Frech
patent: 4433505 (1984-02-01), Viner
patent: 4454685 (1984-06-01), van der Sloot et al.

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