Railways – Fluid supported car or simulated aerial vehicle
Patent
1975-03-13
1976-10-12
Paperner, L. J.
Railways
Fluid supported car or simulated aerial vehicle
104118, 104125, 104242, 105141, B61B 1304
Patent
active
039850811
ABSTRACT:
The specification discloses a transport system comprising a track including a horizontal top rail with a vertical web extending below the rail. A canted surface extends between one edge of the horizontal rail and the web. A support member extends angularly from the vertical web opposite the canted surface of the track. A transport unit is mounted on the track and includes motorized wheels rotationally supported on the unit for tracking along the surface extending angularly from the web. Counterbalance wheels are rotationally supported on the unit for tracking the canted surface of the track. The unit has its center of gravity outside the contact surfaces between the motorized and counterbalance wheels and the track and to the side of the web face on which the motorized wheels track. The transport unit is adapted to channel air between the underside of the main body of the unit and the horizontal rail of the track to lift the transport unit thereby relieving the loading of the unit on the track. The unit is adapted with sensor devices for venting air from beneath the underside of the transport unit to vary the lift resulting from the flow of air between the unit and the track for maintaining at the unit a constant distance from the track.
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Paperner L. J.
Reese Randolph A.
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