CN101219666B - Aerial cableway - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a ropeway equipment with a transport facility (2) such as a Car or a lift, which can be joined with a cable and be detached from the cable in a station (3), and which is provided with a guiding device (1, 16) arranged in an area of stations (3), wherein the transport facility (2) detached from the cable passed by the cable on the guiding device. The transport facility (2) can be driven by transport units (4, 5, 6) along the guiding device(1, 16). The transport units (4, 5, 6) can fail temporarily at least in one part of a region. A delivery mechanism (7, 7') is arranged at least parallel to the transport units (4, 6) and can engage with the transport facility (2) or stop engaging.

Description

Ropeway equipment

technical field

The invention relates to a cableway installation with a station and a traction cable; with a means of transport, such as a car or a chairlift, which can be coupled to and decoupled from the cable in the station; with guides arranged in the station area A device, on which the uncoupled vehicle drives past the cable, and a transmission device, which drives the vehicle along the guide, can be temporarily disabled at least in a partial area.

Background technique

Known by EP 0 774 392 A, when the ropeway equipment is out of service, use the space that exists in the station building, precisely those guides, to store the means of transport, the means of transport along the route during normal operation The guiding device is transported around the steering wheel in the station. In EP 0 774 392 A different possibilities are described for adapting the drive of the transmission device, ie the acceleration wheel, the reduction wheel and/or the conveying wheel located in the middle can be disengaged from the vehicle. The problem here is, of course, that when the cableway is running again, there is no drive for the vehicles parked in this area to move it into an area where no failed wheels get another drive unit. This must therefore be implemented manually by the operator.

Contents of the invention

It is therefore the object of the present invention to provide a cableway system in which the transport means are moved mechanically or automatically.

In a cableway system of the same type, the above object is achieved according to the invention in that at least one conveying device is provided which is arranged at least partially parallel to the conveying device and which can be engaged or disengaged with a vehicle.

In the present invention, as known in EP 0 744 392 A, a part of the wheels, that is to say a part of the acceleration wheel, the deceleration wheel and/or the delivery wheel in the middle, is ineffective, because these wheels, exactly It is said that their drives are not suitable for driving the vehicles in such a way that the vehicles are parked closely next to each other in the station. In order to relieve the operator who has to do this work from this manual work, according to the invention an additional conveying device is provided in the region where the wheels fail, which undertakes these transport tasks.

This conveying device is arranged parallel to the actual conveying device and is characterized in a preferred exemplary embodiment in that the conveying device is a conveying element, such as a conveyor belt, a chain block or the like, which runs around two deflecting wheels. Furthermore, it is preferred that the conveying element has at least one entrainer which protrudes from the conveying element and can be brought into engagement with the vehicle. Each means of transport can be pushed into a desired position in the area of failure of the conveyor by means of a drive.

The longitudinal extent of the conveying device approximately corresponds, at least in its effective range, to the failable length of the conveying device. The entire area in which the conveying device fails can thus be reached by the conveying device, and the vehicle can thus be easily moved within said entire area.

As known from EP 0 774 392 A, the transport device has wheels that can be moved out of its transport position. This is a proven, structurally simple solution for disabling the wheels of the conveyor.

Alternatively, it can also be provided in the invention that the transport device has a wheel or a set of wheels which can be decoupled from its drive. The drives of these wheels or sets of wheels therefore remain in operation and are also used for other wheels or sets of wheels that have not failed or do not need to fail.

Alternatively or additionally, it is also possible for the transport device to have wheels which can be combined into groups whose drives are deactivatable. Compared with the above-described embodiment, this embodiment is simpler in that the drive device only needs to be switched on and off simply and additional couplings for coupling and decoupling of the wheels or wheel sets can also be dispensed with connect.

Description of drawings

Further features and advantages of the invention emerge from the following description of preferred embodiments of the invention with reference to the accompanying drawings.

The side view of the embodiment of the station of the cableway equipment of the present invention in normal operation of Fig. 1;

Figure 2 Top view of the site in Figure 1;

The side view of the station in Fig. 3 Fig. 1 and 2 when parking the car;

Figure 4. Top view of the site in Figure 3;

Figure 5 is a side view of an alternative solution for disabling the wheels of the transport device;

Figure 6. Top view of the site in Figure 5;

Fig. 7 is a view corresponding to Fig. 6, wherein the number of cars parked is the largest;

Fig. 8 Sectional view of a detail of the site of the ropeway equipment.

Detailed ways

FIG. 1 shows a guiding device 1 along which a car 2 decoupled from a traction cable moves through a station 3 of a ropeway installation. The car 2 is driven by three sets of wheels, specifically a set of reduction wheels 4 , a set of delivery wheels 5 and a set of acceleration wheels 6 . After the car 2 is disconnected from the traction cable, it is braked to a speed by the reduction wheel 4, at which speed passengers can leave or board the car 2 comfortably. This takes place in the region in which the car 2 is conveyed further by the conveying wheel 5 at a constant slow speed. Next, the car 2 is accelerated by the accelerator wheel 6 to a speed corresponding to the speed of the traction cable, so that the car is coupled to the traction cable again.

In order to be able to store or park means of transport, such as the car, in the station 3, part of the acceleration and deceleration wheels 4, 6 can be deactivated, that is to say, no acceleration and deceleration forces are applied to the car 2 superior. As described in EP 0 744 392 A, this can be done, for example, in that the acceleration and deceleration wheels 4, 6 can be moved out of their transmission positions, so that the car 2 located in this area will not be driven by these wheels . Figure 5 schematically depicts this scheme.

In another embodiment depicted in FIG. 3 , a part of the acceleration or deceleration wheels 4 , 6 is decoupled from the drive. If the driving of the speed-up and speed-down wheels 4, 6 is carried out in such a way that one wheel always drives the next wheel with a slightly lower or higher transmission ratio, it is sufficient to deactivate the drive of one wheel to the next wheel, so that the speed-up wheel or The remaining wheels of the corresponding set of reduction wheels 4, 6 are also no longer driven. In the case shown in FIG. 3 , this is the reduction gear 4 a , which is decoupled from the reduction gear 4 located on the left, so that all reduction gears 4 up to reduction gear 4 b are not driven. Following the wheels 4b is a group with transport wheels 5, which are driven individually. The deactivation of a part of the accelerator wheel 6 takes place in a similar manner.

The vehicle 2 can be parked in the region where the acceleration wheel 4 and the retardation wheel 6 fail. In order that this can be carried out mechanically, additional conveying devices 7 , 7 ′ are provided in this area, which are arranged at least partially parallel next to the respective area. In the exemplary embodiment shown in the figures, the conveying device 7, 7' has a chain 10 or 10' which runs around two deflection wheels 8, 9 or 8', 9', on which a pin-shaped Conveying elements 11 , 11 ′ in the form of drives. One of the two deflection wheels 8, 9 or 8', 9' of each conveying device 7, 7' is driven, so that the drive 11, 11' can be brought to the conveying device 7, 7' on the one hand. On the side shown in , the entrainer is located on the side facing away from the guide rail 1 and is disengaged from the car 2; It is located here on the side facing the guide rail 1 and assumes the transport task of the car 2 in the event of failure of the wheels 4 , 6 .

The storage process of the car 2 starts from the initial position shown in FIG. 1 , which corresponds to normal cableway operation, wherein the car passes the station 3 in clockwise direction, for example first bringing the cableway to a stop. Then, the reduction wheel 4 between the two wheels 4a and 4b is disabled and the cableway is driven in the opposite direction of motion. The wheel 6 which was used as an accelerator wheel during normal operation now acts as a retarder wheel. As soon as the car 2 is located on the storage section between the wheels 4a and 4b, the drive of the conveying device 7 is switched on, so that the entrainer 11 moves clockwise from the initial position shown in FIG. 1 around the diverting wheel 9 until The driver rests against the car 2 and drives the car until the car is at the end of the storage section at the wheels 4a. The ropeway stops or runs at reduced speed during this time period. Next, switch the driving device of the conveying device 7, and the driver 11 returns to the initial position again. The next car is taken to the starting point of the storage section at the wheel 4b place by the delivery wheel 5 now, and is directly pushed to the back of the hanging chair that has been stored by the driver 11 then. Repeat like this again-in Fig. 3 and 4, the third joint car 2 is just being pushed into the storage section, and it has been positioned on its final storage position in Fig. 6-until the entire storage section in the deceleration wheel 4 area The car is full.

After this, the accelerator wheel 6 is also deactivated, so that the cars can also be stored in this area, that is, starting from the right end of the storage section next to the delivery wheel 5, the cars 2 are stored one after the other by means of the drive 11 ′.

In order to realize the re-running of the car 2, the driver 11' clings to the rightmost car from the right, and slowly pushes the car to the left, so that the car 2 comes to the area of the accelerator wheel 6 that has not failed in turn inside and output. The entrainer 11' now returns to the initial position shown in FIG. 2 . Then, all acceleration wheels 6 are activated again, and by the driver 11 from the left close to the leftmost car 2 and then all the stored cars are gradually moved to the right until they are all caught by the delivery wheels 5 and output, so that the cars 2 in the area of the deceleration pulley 4 that have failed in the storage section are moved sequentially again.

After all cars 2 were all exported from the storage section, the driver 11 got back to the initial position shown in Fig. 2 again, and all reduction wheels 4 were activated again for normal cableway operation.

FIG. 8 shows in detail a part of the vehicle 2 , the conveying device 7 and the transport device which are necessary for understanding the invention. Visible from the vehicle 2 is a support rod 12 which can be coupled via a coupling device 13 to the support and traction cables of the cableway installation. On the coupling device there are also rotating wheels 14 , 15 which rotate on stationary rails 1 , 16 . Furthermore, there are drive surfaces 17 on the coupling device, against which the wheels of the transport device, for example the wheels 4 shown in FIG. 8 , act. The wheels 4 , 5 , 6 are driven by means of paired belt pulleys 18 . If the rotational speeds of adjacent wheels are to be of the same magnitude, as is the case with the conveyor wheel 5 , the two belt pulleys have the same diameter. If the number of revolutions of adjacent wheels is to be different, as in the case of reduction wheels 4 and 6, the diameters of the belt pulleys are also different, as can be seen in FIG. 8 .

The wheels 4 , 5 , 6 are supported on a stationary frame 19 , to which the conveyor devices 7 , 7 ′ according to the invention are also fastened. In FIG. 8 , the guide 20 in which the chain 10 is guided can be seen from the conveyor device 7 . In addition, the entrainer 11 is shown, which in the position indicated by the solid line is acting on the support rod 12 , while the position of the entrainer 11 on the left is shown in dashed lines in the initial position.

Claims (9)

1. A cableway installation having a station (3) and a traction cable; having a vehicle (2) capable of being coupled to the traction cable in the station (3) and capable of being disconnected from the traction cable; having a station ( 3) guides (1, 16) arranged in the area, on which the uncoupled vehicle (2) drives past the traction cables; and with transport devices (4, 5, 6), the The conveying device drives the vehicle (2) along the guiding device (1, 16) and is temporarily deactivatable at least in a partial area, characterized in that at least one conveying device (7, 7') is provided, the conveying The device is arranged at least partially in parallel next to the transport device (4, 6) and can be engaged or disengaged with the vehicle (2). 2. Cableway installation according to claim 1, characterized in that the conveying device (7, 7') is a conveying element (10) which runs around two deflection wheels (8, 9; 8', 9'). 3. Cableway installation according to claim 2, characterized in that the conveying element (10) has at least one driver (11), which protrudes from the conveying element (10) and can be connected to the vehicle (2) is engaged. 4. Cableway installation according to claim 1, characterized in that the longitudinal extension of the conveying device (7, 7') approximately corresponds to the deactivatable length of the conveying device (4, 6). 5. Cableway installation according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the transport device (4, 6) has wheels which can be moved out of their transport position. 6. Cableway installation according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the transport device (4, 6) has a wheel or a wheel set which can be decoupled from its drive. 7. Cableway installation according to any one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the transport means (4, 6) have wheels combined into groups whose drives are deactivatable. 8. Cableway installation according to claim 1, characterized in that the vehicle (2) is a car or a chair lift. 9. Cableway installation according to claim 2, characterized in that the conveyor element (10) is a conveyor belt or a chain block.