Cable transport system with garaging of carriers
CA 2003277 C · Owner: Meindl, Bernd · Inventors: Meindl, Bernd
Overview
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A cable conveyance having a storage region for garaging the carriers which can be decoupled from the transport cable. The carriers are displaced along a transport rail to the storage regions by a reversible drive and are permitted to move by gravity along storage rails into this region or by positively tilting these storage rails back to the transport rail to return to the cable. Thus within the storage region the displacement of the carriers is by gravity only and there is no need to provide a special drive for entrainment of the carriers along the storage rails.
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- Filed November 17, 1989 and granted June 8, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 17, 2009.
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