156results about "Rack railways" patented technology

A system for moving a camera along a predefined path in space, the system comprising: a track (2), the track comprising at least one rail (10, 12); a dolly (4) adapted to ride on the track; and a rack and pinion drive mechanism (6) for driving the dolly along the track. The drive mechanism includes a rack (40) extending along the track and a driven pinion (60) mounted on the dolly, and the rack is positioned vertically inline with the at least one rail of the track.

A method and apparatus are provided for sorting items to a plurality of sort destinations. The items are loaded onto one of a plurality of independently controlled delivery vehicles. The delivery vehicles follow a track that guides the delivery vehicles to the sort destinations, which are positioned along the track. Once at the appropriate sort destination, the delivery vehicle ejects the item to the sort destination and returns to receive another item to be delivered.

A transport device includes a main body section, a base connected to the main body section, a wheel connected to the main body section for causing the transport device to travel, a drive module for driving the wheel, and a sensor that detects a state of the transport device, wherein a posture of the main body section is controlled using an output of the sensor such that the center of gravity of a mounted object approaches the center of gravity of the transport device.

The invention is a carriage traction vehicle for use with a monorail. The vehicle is self-propelled along the monorail by one or more motors engaging a fixed rack attached to the monorail.

The invention discloses a straddle type monorail vehicle walking structure and a rail beam thereof. The structure comprises a framework spanned on a rail beam body; the framework comprises a cross beam and side beams arranged on two sides of the cross beam; the upper surface of the cross beam is provided with a vehicle body connecting interface and primary and secondary suspension mounting interfaces, the side beams comprise an upper side beam (4c) and a lower side beam (4e), two ends of the upper side beam and the lower side beam are respectively provided with a first hub fixed seat (4d), andthe lower parts of the side beams are provided with a second hub fixed seat (4g); walking wheels (1) are installed at the front end and the rear end of the cross beam respectively, a guide wheel (6)is installed on the first hub fixed base of the side beam, and a stabilizing wheel (7) is installed on the second hub fixed base of the side beam. A gear box (4b) and a traction motor (5) are arrangedon the cross beam in an oblique opposite angle manner, and the walking wheels and the gear box are mounted on an output shaft of the traction motor; a gear transmission system (9) is arranged in thegear box, and a gear rotating wheel (9a) meshed with a tooth-shaped rail (3) is arranged below the gear transmission system.

A rail cum road vehicle(RCRV) running on rail tracks or on plain roads, includes a gas powered hybrid engine coach linked to and pulling one or several passenger coaches or goods vehicles, all of which in common are fitted with pneumatic rubber wheels, steel wheels, air suspension system with hanger brackets, air brakes and couplers. The air suspension system will lift the axles of the rubber wheels for rail travel, and it will lift the steel wheels to nm on plain roads. Its regenerative braking system produces electricity to run the motor of an air compressor unit or the vehicle itself. The engine power is transmitted to the steel wheels and the rubber wheels via crown/differential boxes and sprockets and chains. All of the RCRV are fitted with ‘advanced light weight rail tracks brakes’ and ‘corrugated concrete track to engage with the corrugated tread rubber wheels’ for instant braking. The circular chassis bogie at rear end helps the RCRV on tracks and on road comfortably negotiate. The ballast-less economy rail track with lesser numbers of light weight sleepers is bolted to the ground for comfortable journey with less noise.

The invention discloses a toothed rail-trapped rail sightseeing train. The toothed rail-trapped rail sightseeing train comprises railways and a sightseeing train base body; gear racks are arranged in the railways; the gear racks and driving wheels in the sightseeing train base body drive the sightseeing train base body to travel on the railways in an engaged driving mode; the sightseeing train base body comprises a power carriage, passenger carrying carriages and a brake carriage; a pull rod is arranged between every adjacent two of the power carriage, the passenger carrying carriages and the brake carriage; the power carriage is used for driving the operation of the overall sightseeing train; a plurality of the passenger carrying carriages are arranged and are the places for carrying the passengers; the effect of the brake carriage is to perform emergency braking when the sightseeing train is powered off and the train speed is out of control; the sightseeing train base body works in cooperation with the railways by adopting a wheel guide suspending and rail trapping device, so that safe operation of the sightseeing train is ensured. The invention provides the toothed rail-trapped rail sightseeing train which is high in safety coefficient, wide in application range, high in climbing capacity and small in turning radius, and adopts a multi-power hybrid driving mode.

The invention discloses a flexible invisible rack track system and a method for a track logistics vehicle, and belongs to the field of track logistics. The system comprises a track system and a wheel system, wherein the wheel system comprises a driving wheel system and an opposite jacking wheel system; the driving wheel system comprises a driving wheel (5) and a driving gear (6) coaxially mounted; and the driving wheel system and the opposite jacking wheel system are connected through an opposite jacking spring component, so that the driving wheel system is pressed to a space track support surface by an opposite jacking spring (8), and the opposite jacking wheel system is pressed to an opposite jacking surface of a space track by the opposite jacking spring. The track system is provided with a pair of flexible tracks (3) on a large slope section; and as the flexible tracks (3) are higher than a track support surface on the section, the driving wheel (5) is overhead, and the driving gear (6) serves as a driving main piece. The system has the characteristics of simple structure, low manufacturing and operation cost, long service life, high reliability and low impact noise, and is suitable for the working conditions of high load and high-speed operation. The system and the method can be widely applied to the field of local track logistics.

The invention discloses a mining electric and hydraulic toothed rail locomotive. The mining electric and hydraulic toothed rail locomotive comprises a locomotive body and rails, wherein an electric motor for providing power for wheels at two sides is arranged in the locomotive body, other power source which is a hydraulic cylinder is also arranged in the locomotive body, a driving shaft is arranged at the end part of a piston rod of the hydraulic cylinder in a penetrating manner, a driving gear is arranged at the center of a chassis of the locomotive body, the shaft end of the driving shaft is sleeved with a gear, the gear is meshed with the driving gear on the chassis of the locomotive body by a transmission gear, the rails comprise double rails on which the wheels at two sides run, and a gear path meshed with the driving gear is arranged at the middle position between the two rails. The mining electric and hydraulic toothed rail locomotive disclosed by the invention not only is safe, but also has high transportation efficiency.

The invention relates to a novel device capable of realizing transportation and carrying comprehensive operation on a mountain land slope. The novel device capable of realizing transportation and carrying comprehensive operation on the mountain land slope comprises a mechanical portion feature and an electrical portion feature, wherein the mechanical portion feature consists of several parts of a frame, a gear-rack driving mechanism, a transmission mechanism consisting of sprocket-chain and worm-gear reducers, a walking part, a rollover and upward jumping preventing device, a mechanical brake mechanism and a track connecting structure, and a gear-rack engagement driving mode is adopted. The electrical portion feature consists of several parts of a direct-current brushless motor, a driving controller portion thereof, an electrical control portion and a power transmission and electricity getting device. A safer and simpler slide wire and collector structure is adopted for power transmission, a direct-current brushless control system consisting of the direct-current brushless motor and the driving controller thereof in combination with single-chip microcomputer control and wireless remote control is adopted for electrical control, a track transporter is enabled to be capable of realizing automatic obstacle avoiding and fixed point parking functions and intelligent running of equipment is realized.

The invention discloses a carrying device for a stair, and relates to the technical field of conveying equipment. The carrying device for the stair comprises transporting tracks, a carrying vehicle and a driving mechanism. The carrying device for the stair is suitable for a stair, by arranging the transporting tracks at the two sides of the stair in a disassembling mode, the carrying vehicle used for transporting goods goes up and down the stair through cooperating with the transporting tracks; the driving mechanism is arranged at the front end of the carrying vehicle, walking wheels at the rear end of the carrying vehicle is driven by driving for walking wheels at the front end of the carrying vehicle; and a ratchet wheel mechanism with a braking protecting function is further arranged for preventing backward slipping of the carrying vehicle. The carrying device for the stair has the characteristics of being simple but compact in structure, compared with existing small-scale carrying tools, the carrying device for the stair has greater heavy object carrying performance, installation is simple and convenient, manufacturing and maintaining cost is low, motor driving is not totally relied, and the carrying device for the stair can also be pulled out from the transporting tracks through manpower.

The invention discloses a gear bogie suitable for steep-slope rail transit transportation. The gear bogie suitable for the steep-slope rail transit transportation comprises a bogie body; wheel pairs,a primary suspension and a secondary suspension are mounted on the bogie body; and a driving gear engaged with a toothed rail between two steel rails is also mounted in a position, between the wheel pairs, on the bogie body. The gear bogie suitable for the steep-slope rail transit transportation has the advantageous effects that the capability of running on toothed-rail lines (toothed-rail lines with climbing slopes of 5-45 %) and traditional lines (traditional lines with slopes of not larger than 5 %) is realized because the driving gear is mounted on the bogie body for the first time; the gear bogie suitable for the steep-slope rail transit transportation is especially suitable for transportation in tourist attractions with intensive passenger flow volumes and directly switched between the toothed rail lines and the traditional lines; and therefore, the gear bogie suitable for the steep-slope rail transit transportation is convenient and fast.

A method of extracting materials from an underground mine comprises positioning a flexible conveyor train in a materials loading zone. The conveyor train may be loaded by, concurrently or intermittently, loading materials onto a loading end of the conveyor and activating the conveyor to move the materials downstream along the conveyor. The conveyor is deactivated when loaded and the conveyor train then transports the loaded conveyor to a materials unloading zone for unloading.

The invention is a system that is movable along a guide. It includes housing having a center of mass, a first wheel and a second wheel, each connected to the housing and configured to rotate about a respective axis. Each axis is displaced from the center of mass to create a rotating moment that biases the first wheel and second wheels into frictional engagement with the guide. The invention also includes a rotator, and controls in communication with the rotator and positioned at a location remote from the housing. The housing moves relative the guide.

The invention provides a differential operation device of a straddle-type single-track vehicle. A wheel-site motor and a brake are respectively mounted on an either hub of a left paratactic road wheel and a right paratactic road wheel which are aligned on a vehicle running on a light rail PC girder. Either road wheel of the straddle-type single-track vehicle can rotate around a rotating shaft of either motor and rotate around a bogie, and the road wheels can mutually independently run to realize the differential operation of the vehicle, improve the stress conditions of the prior vehicle and the vehicle body, lessen the abrasion of tires and enable the vehicle to run more safely and stably.

A rack traveling type coil conveying device capable of stably conveying a wound coil at a high speed with the meshing between a rack and a pinion maintained in a good condition. A rack traveling type coil conveying device is provided with: rails (11) provided on a floor (F); a coil conveying carriage (21) which can travel on the rails (11) and on which a coil (C) of a rolled material can be loaded; a rack (31) capable of traveling on the rails (11) and removably connected to the coil conveying carriage (21); a pinion (44) provided above the rack (31) and meshing with the rack (31); and a motor (41) provided on the floor (F) and rotationally driving the pinion (44).

A conveyance mechanism having rails (10) horizontally and vertically laid in a building, racks (20) laid along the rails, wheels (31, 32) for traveling on the rail, and a self-propelled carriage (30) having pinions (33, 34) meshing with the racks and a drive section for the pinions and on which a load is placed. The rails have a curve section in which they change the direction from horizontal to vertical or from vertical to horizontal, and also have a vertical section continuing to the horizontal section. In the two sections above, the rails have rails (11) for the pinions, having the racks meshing with the pinions, and also have rails (12) for the travel wheels, installed in parallel with and separated from the rails for the pinions. The carriage have, on its left and right sides, the pinions meshing with the rails for the pinions and the travel wheels supported on the rails for the travel wheels. Also, the rails for the pinions and the rails for the travel wheels are arranged so that the carriage can move in a horizontal position in the curve section and the vertical section continuing to the curve section.

The invention discloses a material processing system based on novel shuttle vehicles. The material processing system based on the novel shuttle vehicles significantly reduces quantities of motors andaxles and achieves two wheel drive. Design of a corresponding shuttle vehicle running guide rail storage rack can be substantially simplified, and meanwhile requirements for installation accuracy canbe reduced to a certain extent. Cost of the system and the quantity of failure points are reduced to the minimum. Furthermore, a cooperation mode of gear vehicle wheels and a rack track can enable theshuttle vehicles to run in both the transverse direction and the longitudinal direction, and flexibility of the system is greatly improved. By enabling the shuttle vehicles to carry different operation modules, the material processing system based on the novel shuttle vehicles is enabled to achieve different functions of storage, sorting, allocation and the like.

A transport system according to the invention comprises a guide device having a first guide rail in the form of a first pipe (11) and a second guide rail in the form of a second pipe (12). The transport system comprises a toothed driving disk (330), which is engaged with an engagement element (340) extending along the lower pipe (12) and forms a positive drive. The engagement element (340) comprises counter-toothing, disposed along the pipe (12).

The transport device comprises a guide rail (2), which is composed of rail segments, and a transport train, which can be moved while suspended on the guide rail and which has at least one gear (11) that interacts with the guide rail (2) as a component of a driving unit (9) of a tractor of the transport train. The guide rail (2) has two bar-like flanges (19, 23) that extend parallel to each other and several bolts (13) that connect the flanges (19, 23) arranged one over the other to each other. The gear (11) is always operatively engaged with the bolts (13). Furthermore, the driving unit (9) is supported by means of support rollers (17) on the inside (18) of the lower flange (19).