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Elevated cableway for observation of nature

a cableway and observation platform technology, applied in the direction of rope railways, transportation and packaging, ways, etc., to achieve the effect of restoring energy to batteries and not polluting

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-06-17
PERRY DONALD RAY
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[0028]The applicant's intermediate supports (FIGS. 4, 5. 14) can join two cables into a single cableway. Each span may have its own anchor to the ground (5,grd), trees, or other structures. This increases strength while increasing overall stability of the cableway and reduces wear of the support cable (wr). Also, it is simpler to install shorter cable segments instead of a single cable that otherwise may be a mile or more in length. A search of prior art and patents did not produce a similar intermediate-support design that connects two independent cables to make a single span while adding stability to the cableway.

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A search of prior art and patents did not produce a similar intermediate-support design that connects two independent cables to make a single span while adding stability to the cableway.

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[0093]The cableway is placed in any desirable natural area (FIG. 1), including but not limited to more or less flat areas, hills, ravines, steep slopes, over or into valleys mountains, and along cliffs, to provide nature observation and as it may happen, scenic overviews. Access to any terrestrial habitat is envisioned including, but not limited to, estuaries, streams, rivers, forests, swamps and the like. Of course it is specifically understood that the applicant's cableway can simply be used as a transport of humans, and / or materials, and / or products as well as other uses where nature observation is not intended.

[0094]The preferred cableway may use trees as primary supports (FIG. 1). In some cases, such as in wetland and grassy areas devoid of trees or where use of trees is prohibited, the intermediate supports (FIGS. 9, 5, 6) will be modified in conventional ways and attached directly to posts, towers, pylons, buildings, telephone poles, rock faces, stanchions or any suitable sup...

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A fixed, elevated cableway having a plurality of intermediate supports for transport of persons for nature observation is described. One or more self-powered trolleys may travel simultaneously on a common cable span between two intermediate supports. Intermediate supports may join separate cable spans and / or allow tight turns. The trolley possesses one or more speed-governing devices, locks to the support cable and to intermediate supports. Combined features produce a slow-speed elevated cableway having minimal impact on the environment while providing improved installation flexibility for the purpose of nature observation.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]My related (and copending) Provisional Patent Application No. 60 / 008,199 was filed on Dec. 19, 2007. That filing date is claimed for this application.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT[0002]Not applicablePATENTS CITED  535,703Mar. 12, 1895Lamb  830,491Sep. 11, 1906Bozzalla1,003,950Sep. 19, 1911Rosada1,076,337Oct. 21, 1913Vogel and Taitt1,313,358Aug. 19, 1919Watkins2,630,074Mar. 3, 1953Grabinski3,498,236Mar. 3, 1970Meek4,062,293Dec. 13, 1977Davis4,159,113Jun. 26, 1979Callecod4,257,494Mar. 24, 1981Frankel4,359,946Nov. 23, 1982Marvin4,492,168Jan. 8, 1985Cellai5,199,580Apr. 6, 1993Bankier5,224,425Jul. 6, 1993,Remington6,360,669Mar. 26, 2002AlbrichLITERATURE CITED[0003]Perry, D. R. An arboreal naturalist explores the rain forest's mysterious canopy. Smithsonian Magazine, June 1980:42-52.[0004]Perry, D. R. The Canopy of the Tropical Rain Forest. Scientific American, November 1984:138-147.[0005]Perry, D. R. The Rain f...

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IPC IPC(8): B61B7/00
CPCA63G7/00A63G21/20Y02T30/30B61B7/06A63G21/22Y02T30/00
Inventor PERRY, DONALD RAY
Owner PERRY DONALD RAY
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