Railways – Moving train – Passenger transfer
Patent
1980-12-16
1983-07-05
Valenza, Joseph E.
Railways
Moving train
Passenger transfer
104 25, 105329R, 105341, 105343, B61K 100
Patent
active
043912001
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention has for its object a continuous transport device, for persons or merchandise, along medium distances, that is to say of the order of 50 to 500 meters.
PRIOR ART
For such hectometric transport there are now three existing main solutions which are: continuous velocity of about 60 cm/s. Furthermore they are expensive and cumbersome. their loading which is made laterally, that is perpendicularly to the displacement of the cabins and this is dangerous for slow, loaded or handicapped persons. thus be driven at different speeds in the loading areas than on the rest of the pathway. The time for the course can thus be reduced but the necessary mechanism is too, cumbersome and expensive. to walk in the vehicles without relative speed. The drawbacks of these integrators are their cost and their very large size.
SUMMARY DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The present invention has for its object a transport device for persons tending to avoid these drawbacks, comprising a continuous rollway, closed on itself, and several cabins displaced along this rollway. This device distinguishes itself by the fact that each cabin comprises a carrier frame mounted on wheels following the rollway, by the fact that a first part of the cabin is formed of a normal floor, a wall and at least one door, the hinges of which are fast with this part of the cabin whereas the other part of the floor of the cabin is formed by a grooved rectangular plate of the rolling carpet type, the greatest part of it is disengaged from the first part it thus to pass under entrance and outlet combs and to disappear under the fixed floor located in the loading and unloading areas. A special door pivoted at the top of the first part of the cabin is guided at its lower portion by its wall and pivots of 360.degree. around its axis in steps of 90.degree. each and always in the same direction. This door closes partially in front of the passengers as soon as the grooved plate comes out of its comb. After continuation of the circular movement, the passengers are confined in an approximately circular cabin. The door has made half a rotation of 180.degree.. Upon the arrival the door opens behind the passengers turning always in the same direction and finishes opening before the passage of the grooved plate under its comb. The door has made a complete cycle of 360.degree. and is completely hidden behind the wall of the rear part of the cabin.
NOMENCLATURE OF THE FIGURES
The attached drawing shows schematically and by way of example one embodiment of the hectometric transport device according to the invention.
FIG. 1 is a schematic plan view of the transport device.
FIG. 2 is a partial plan view, on a larger scale, of the transport device.
FIG. 3 is a cross section, perpendicular to the rollway, of a cabin located in a loading or unloading area.
FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 3, the cabin being located outside of a loading or unloading area.
FIG. 5 is a plan view, on a larger scale, showing the positioning of the plate of a cabin with respect to the loading platform.
FIG. 6 is a longitudinal cross section of a plate of a cabin located in the immediate vicinity of the loading platform.
FIG. 7 shows partially a modification of a cabin.
DESCRIPTION OF AN EMBODIMENT OF THE INVENTION
The transport device shown comprises a rolling track formed of two planar rolling surfaces 1, 2 and of a guiding rail 3 located in a T-shaped groove separating the rolling surfaces 1 and 2. This rolling track is continuous and closed on itself. Generally it will take the shape of two rectilinear portions connected at their ends by arcs of circles, however, it is evident that this rolling track could follow any path along which passengers have to be transported.
This path may be sinuous and even change elevation. It is also evident that the "one-way" track does not need to follow the "return" track but that a given circuit can be followed.
The rolling surfaces 1, 2 are placed in a pit or trench 4 so that, in working, the floor of the cabins will be ap
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