446 results about "Cable transport" patented technology

A method and system of devices facilitate the uninterrupted transport of a payload of persons (110) or cargo along a multi-segmented guide cable (180), or zip line, suspended from a series of support structures (120). Transfer mechanisms (800, 810) allow the cable to loop to a starting location or to transport between discrete endpoints. A trolley (200) carrying the payload may be powered by gravity alone, or a motorized assist may allow the cable course to be traversed without regard to relative elevations of cable supports. Safety mechanisms (300) prevent the trolley from leaving the cable (180) unintentionally. The system enables one or more riders (110) to travel along the guide cable (180) at velocities desired for recreational purposes while assuming many body positions, such as prone, sitting or standing, to provide the sensation of flying like a bird.

A continuous cable processing apparatus for producing cable sections with processed ends comprises a cable transport apparatus having at least one transport means for moving and holding the cable in the axial direction and, transversely thereto, a knife station. According to a special variant, two transport means are arranged in the longitudinal cable direction on both sides of the knife station and, after the cable has been cut through, each hold one of the cable end regions produced on cutting, so that said end regions are movable in the longitudinal cable direction. At least one of these end processing stations is arranged transversely with respect to the longitudinal cable direction, adjacent to the knife station and at least one transport means is movable transversely with respect to the longitudinal cable direction so that a cable end region can be fed to the end processing station.

A cableway with suspended tram and remote bogie is disclosed. This includes a self-contained motor, traction and support sheaves with provision for adjusting the height of the tram below said cable for limiting vertical acceleration caused by travel along the cantenary curve of the cableway.

The invention discloses a cable conveyance tension adjustment method. In the method, a frame and a wire coil arranged on the frame are used. The method comprises the following steps: 1, preparing a cable guide roller; 2, preparing a cable guide wheel; 3, preparing a tension control device; 4, preparing a damping device; and 5, preparing an adjustment device so as to adjust the amplitude of swing of the tension control device and set corresponding damping force output by the damping device according to the amplitude of swing. The method provided by the invention has the advantages of quickly and uniformly conveying cables wound in the wire coil to a winding machine with constant tension. A device provided by the invention has a simple structure and high tension control and adjustment accuracy, automatically and continuously detects and adjusts the tension of the cables in the whole production process, keeps the tension constant all the time to actually realize cable transport with the constant tension, is convenient to operate, can automatically convey the cables wound in the wire coil to the winding machine with the constant tension only by starting the winding machine, and improves the production efficiency.

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.

A cableway with suspended tram and remote bogie is disclosed. This includes a self-contained motor, traction and support sheaves with provision for adjusting the height of the tram below said cable for limiting vertical acceleration caused by travel along the cantenary curve of the cableway.

The invention discloses an air public transportation method which comprises a plurality of air tower stations and supporting tower frames arranged among the air tower stations. Cables are connected between the air tower stations and the supporting tower frames; all the air tower stations form an air public transportation network; a plurality of air public transportation vehicles are hung on the cables; each air tower station comprises a tower base, a plurality of layers of boarding areas arranged at the upper part of the tower base, a waiting area arranged at the lower end of the tower base and electric lifts vertically operating between the lower end of the tower base and the boarding areas. Based on a unique and novel concept, the invention solves the problem of traffic congestion caused by excessive vehicles on roads at the height of low altitude, is safe to use and environment friendly, suitable for generalization in medium-sized and small cities, has less investment and can thoroughly solve the problems of traffic jam, traffic accidents, environmental pollution, noise pollution and the like in medium-sized and small cities.

A ropeway transport system of a long-span steep terrain wind power device comprises a main cable (1), a tower (2), a hoisting cable (3), a pulling cable (4), a crane carriage (5), a rack winch (9), a steel cable (6), an anchor (7) and a tower top steering pulley (8); the tower top steering pulley (8) is installed on the tower (2); the main cable (1) and the steel cable (6) are fixed on the anchor (7); the other ends of the main cable (1) and the steel cable (6) are fixed on the tower top steering pulley (8); two ends of the pulling cable (4) are connected with the rack winch (9); and two ends of the hoisting cable (3) are connected with a hoisting winch (10). The system overcomes the problems of big construction difficulty, high project construction cost and serious environment damage when construction roads are built in the mountainous area by using a traditional technique. The invention provides a transport solution for a heavy cargo device of a steep terrain wind power device in a mountainous area and designs a device for realizing the solution.

The invention discloses a curve cableway transporting system of double-cable circulating type, which comprises two groups of ground anchors, supporting devices, a dragging cable, two load bearing cables, one or two empty-return cables, a freight trolley and a dragger. The dragging cable is connected with the dragger to form an annular circulating loop, the two load bearing cables are arranged in parallel up and down, the one or two empty-return cables and the load bearing cables are respectively mutually connected at positions near the adjacent two groups of ground anchors through a corner slid rail, the dragging cable is arranged below the two load bearing cables and the one or two empty-return cables, and the load bearing cables or empty-return cables on the two sides of each supportingdevice are provided with an included angle. According to the curve cableway transporting system of double-cable circulating type disclosed by the invention, a cableway construction line is shortened in some regions, and multiple times of loading, unloading, dumping and transporting do not needed during transportation; and the curve cableway transporting system of double-cable circulating type disclosed by the invention has the advantages of reasonable design, convenience for installing, large freight volume, large altitude difference, large span, high transportation efficiency, high safety coefficient, low total investment, low operation cost and the like, and has large popularization and application values.

A cable transport device having a pivotably mounted cable transporter, a first drive means connected in a stationary manner to a base frame and intended for achieving an exactly defined pivot movement of the cable transporter around a pivot axis and a second drive means for synchronous driving of at least two cooperating pressure rollers. The second drive means with a drive axle for the pressure rollers is connected in a stationary manner to the base frame, and the drive axle of the second drive means coincides with the pivot axis for the cable transporter. The transmission of the pivot movement is effected via a toothed belt which is tensioned symmetrically to the center of rotation of the pivot axis between a first intermediate shaft arranged on a base plate of the cable transporter and a second intermediate shaft fixed to the machine frame, the pitch axis of the cable transporter being identical to the axis of the first intermediate shaft.

A cableway transport system for moving tubulars between a supply of tubulars and a rig mast implements a gondola suspended and movable along load cables. The gondola is fit with grippers for carrying tubulars between the rack and mast. The gondola has a first landing coupler which is received and releasably couples to a second landing coupler on the mast for forming a landing connection. The landing connection enables rotation of the gondola to align the carried tubular with the wellhead. The grippers can be individually actuable to allow finer alignment of the tubular above the wellhead.

A zipline braking system comprising a zipline cable and a destination supporting member; a rider carrier coupled to the zipline cable for movement towards the destination supporting member, such movement generating kinetic energy; a damper having a posterior end and an anterior end and connected to the destination supporting member at the posterior end; a tension line; a stopping member coupled to the zipline cable and the tension line; and the tension line for transferring the kinetic energy to the damper upon the rider carrier engaging the stopping member in movement to the destination supporting member.

The invention provides a constant tension highline maritime adaptive control and supply system and supply method. The system comprises a constant tension highline maritime supply subsystem and a constant tension highline maritime adaptive control subsystem; the constant tension highline maritime adaptive control subsystem is used for driving and controlling an outer index winch (3), an inner index winch (4), a highline winch (5) and a wave compensation device (6), so that a crane device (7) moves between a supply ship and a receiving ship. The system and the method have the advantages: (1) a highline adopts constant tension adaptive control, so that manual intervention s not needed in the supply process, vibration of goods on cableways is reduced and the supply efficiency is improved; and (2) wave compensation is performed on the highline by adopting a wave compensation technology, so that tension constant double closed-loop control of the highline is kept, relative movements of the two ships are compensated, safe and stable hoisting and landing of goods when the ships swing are ensured, and mutual collision between the goods and the decks of the working ship is prevented.

The invention relates to a cableway traction inspection robot system, which includes a cableway traction motion system, a robot body and a remote control management system. The cableway traction motion system includes a power system module, a fixed module, a guide cable, an encoder module, a tension And tension adjustment module, turning guide module, charging, cache module; the robot body includes shell, guide module, charging module, top support module, control arm module, pan-tilt module, camera module, lighting module, control board, image transmission modules and batteries. This robot can be used in power tunnels, urban comprehensive pipe corridors, industrial sites, agricultural sites, and civil sites to conduct all-round detection, photography, and shooting of the on-site environment for equipment inspections, safety inspections, etc. It can also be used in factory areas , Plant environmental management and safety management and other occasions. It is a modular, easy to disassemble, convenient maintenance, stable operation, safe and reliable inspection robot.

The invention discloses a movable rescue cableway, comprising a rotating chassis; wherein, the rotating chassis is provided with a hydraulic pressure jacking system and a chain uniform cyclic operating stretching control system. The hydraulic pressure jacking system is hinged with a hydraulic pressure stretching rescue slide way, and the top is provided with a work platform. The chain is embed in the rescue slide way, and operates recycling and stretches synchronously with the rescue slide way via the chain cyclic operating stretching uniform control system. A chain cyclic operating system is composed by the chain uniform cyclic operating apparatus and the stretching system. The worker to be saved is fixed on the chain by a self-locking device and transferred to the ground by the chain cyclic operating device. The movable rescue cableway has the advantages of continuous transmission of upper worker by the slide way, simple structure, convenient operation, continuity and rapid, uniform decent, safe evacuation.

Multiplexing of information from a plurality of information flows into fixed-length packets such as, but not limited to, MPEG packets allows efficient utilization of bandwidth and also can be used to reduce transmission latency. In addition, utilizing MPEG packets and transport streams for octet multiplexing allows the packets carrying octet-multiplexed data to easily be integrated with other MPEG packets for other services that are commonly found in cable transmission networks of all coax, hybrid fiber coax, and / or all fiber. The multiplexing / demultiplexing of octets using MPEG packets generally is described by mappings that specify the use of octets in MPEG packets. Changes to allocations in a map generally should be propagated in a way that reliably ensures that both the transmitter and receiver have a consistent view of the octet mappings.

The invention provides a wind power adjustment device storing energy by means of cableway transport. The device comprises a weight transfer unit, a high altitude weight treatment device, a low altitude weight treatment device, a drive device, a power generator, and a low voltage passage control unit, wherein the high altitude weight treatment device and the low altitude weight treatment device are arranged at two ends of the weight transfer unit, the drive device connected to the weight transfer unit is used for driving the weight transfer unit to operate, the power generator connected to the weight transfer unit is used for converting released energy into electric energy, and the low voltage passage control unit connected to the weight transfer unit is used for adjusting wind power. The wind power adjustment device has the advantages that energy can be converted efficiently, charging / discharging reaction speed is flexible to control, energy storage capacity is high, the device is environmentally friendly and low in construction cost and maintenance cost, and the scale is easy to control.

A maintenance vehicle for performing operations along an aerial ropeway of a mechanical lift installation consists of a car (13) suspended on the rope by a connecting means which comprises a top part (14) fixed to the rope, a bottom part (15) fixed to the car (13), an articulation means of the top part (14) with respect to the bottom part (15), adjustment means (23, 24, 25, 29) of the angle between the bottom part (15) and top part (14) up to an inclined position of the car (13) with respect to the vertical, and means for securing car (13) in the inclined position.

A cable railway system has two or more stations and at least one carrying cable and a conveying cable extending between the stations and guided in the stations by way of deflection pulleys. At least one of the pulleys is driven. Vehicles, such as cable cars or chairs, may be boarded or disembarked from in the stations by the passengers. The system may also have one or more fixed carrying cables along which the cars are moved by way of one or more hauling cables. At least one device is associated with the vehicles along the section of the cable railway system, by way of which device the pendulum movements that the vehicles are subject to transversely relative to the direction of movement of the vehicles are detectable and its output signals are conducted to a device that controls the drive of the cable railway system. The drive is thereby controllable in dependence on the extent of the pendulum movements.

The invention discloses a ropeway running management system which comprises a computer terminal and an information acquisition terminal. The information acquisition terminal comprises a speed sensor, a pressure sensor and a vibration sensor, and further comprises a video head and a weather detection device. The speed sensor, the pressure sensor, the vibration sensor, the video head and the weather detection device are all connected with the computer terminal. The computer terminal comprises an alarm device for sending an alarm. Since the speed sensor, the pressure sensor, the vibration sensor, the video head and the weather detection device are added to a ropeway, ropeway running speed, retaining force of ropeway rollers and car swing can be detected; when signal strength excesses a certain value, the alarm device of the computer terminal can send an alarm to prevent the ropeway from continuing to run to cause safety accidents; therefore, ropeway running safety is much higher.

The invention discloses a no-catwalk cableway erecting method for main cable strands of a suspension bridge and relates to the technical field of mounting and construction of main cables of the suspension bridge. The no-catwalk cableway erecting method includes steps of erecting a bearing traction cable hung with a plurality of cable holders and connected with a traction device; mounting a linear stable cable and a linear counter-drawing device on segments of the bearing traction cable and keeping a linear form of the bearing traction cable above a preset position above a hollow cable linear form of the main cable; stretching the main cable strands in a cable stretching area by a cable stretching plate, and fixing the ends of the stretched main cable strands in a holder at the lower end of the pre-mounted first cable holder; driving the main cable strands along the longitudinal motion of the bridge by the bearing traction cable under the action of the traction device, stretching the main cable strands continuously and stopping until all the main cable strands are completely stretched and longitudinally move the main cable strands to the pre-mounted position; mounting the tower top sections of the main cable strands into saddles, and dragging the main cable strands at the beam ends into anchorage by the cable head traction device.

A ramp system for bridging a flexible cable to a rigid rail to improve the movement of a trolley along a low tension fixed aerial cableway. The ramp system has an inverted U-shaped elongated channel having a contact surface, a proximal end and a distal end, wherein the distal end is disposed atop and contacts a portion of the cableway and an anchor configured to pivotably support the proximal end of the channel at a second point at a second level. The second level is disposed higher than the first level, wherein the distal end of the channel is slideably but positively secured to the portion of the cable and the first point, second point and distal end cooperate to form a triangular relationship, thereby reducing bending in the cable, reducing the approach angle and fatigue exerted on the channel and cable.

The invention discloses a hanging chair automatic circulating device of a mine cableway. The hanging chair automatic circulating device comprises a steel wire rope, a beam and a friction-type rope clip with pulleys. The beam is provided with a U-shaped hanging chair automatic circulating track with a splayed section and a hanging chair circulating driving device. The invention has the following advantages that after the miner arrives at station by the hanging chair, the friction-type rope clip with pulleys separates from the steel wire rope, slides to the U-shaped track along the slope of the U-shaped track and slides to a position of a shifting yoke, then the shifting yoke shifts the rope slip so that the rope slip being about to stop goes on running to the other side of the steel wire rope along the track and goes on running to the steel wire rope on the slope track, and the steel wire rope drives the rope clip to go on running, thus achieving the function of automatically circulating, avoiding the trouble that the miner gets off after arriving at station and pushes the hanging chair to the place for getting on, reducing the labor intensity of the miner and reducing the management difficulty of the hanging chair. The hanging chair automatic circulating device of the mine cableway is safer and more reliable.

An embodiment of the present invention relates to a new type of wire loading and unloading device for a power transmission line inspection robot, which comprises an iron tower, a transitional rail connected with the iron tower, a bearing platform connected with a lifting device below the guide rail, an inspection robot installed on the bearing platform, and a retractable and extendable walking wheel arranged on the inspection robot, wherein the inspection robot can be lifted up and down between a ground and the transitional guide rail through the lifting device; an arc-shaped section bent into the inner side is arranged on the corresponding transitional guide rail; the arc-shaped section and the transitional guide rail at two sides constitute a lifting and lowering range suitable for the inspection robot to walk and penetrate. When the wheel goes up and through the lifting range, the walking wheel extends and falls on the transitional guide rail at two sides of the arc-shaped section. The lifting device comprises a hoisting ropeway and a hoisting machine. The bearing platform is respectively connected with the hoisting ropeway and the hoisting machine, and the hoisting ropeway is a flexible ropeway; with the device, manual climbing the iron tower for operation becomes unnecessary, reducing the labor intensity of the operator; and the wire drawing type flexible ropeway has a simple structure and is convenient in installation.

The invention relates to a method for controlling the progression of vehicles (V1, Vi) in cable transport equipment (1), said equipment including vehicles (V1, Vi) with declutchable clamps circulating at a rate D, a traction cable (2) driven at a running speed Vc for driving the vehicles (V1, Vi) when they are coupled to the cable (2); and at least one passenger embarkment / disembarkment station including a section in which the vehicles (V1, Vi) disconnected from the cable (2) are driven by station driving means. The method comprises: the step of determining a threshold (Sn, T) that varies based on the running speed Vc of the cable (2) and / or the circulation rate D of the vehicles (V1, Vi); a detection step that comprises transmitting a detection signal upon the passage of vehicles (V1, Vi) in front of at least one fixed reference (R1, Rn+1); the step of measuring a variable (Ln, i, Kn, i+1) representative of a running length of the traction cable (2) between two detection signals; and the step of diagnosing the progression of the vehicles (V1, Vi) in the station by comparing the threshold (Sn, T) with the variable (Ln, i, Kn, i+1) representative of a running length. The invention also relates to a control device and to a cable transport equipment.

The invention provides a through type stayed cable installation circulation system and a cable threading construction method thereof. A double-independent circulation traction system is adopted, and a circulation system composed of traction ropes, fixed pulleys, a circulation steel wire rope and a driving device is utilized; a stayed cable is threaded circularly, and the circulation steel wire rope is led to a beam surface fixed pulley from a saddle fixed pulley, then enters the driving device from the beam surface fixed pulley, walks out from the driving device and is led to a steering fixed pulley, and then walks towards a cableway pipe fixed pulley, and finally returns back to the circulation steel wire rope, so that a sealed circulation system is formed; and the stayed cable is pulled through the three traction ropes. The through type stayed cable installation circulation system is simple to operate, high in working efficiency and low in fault rate; and a construction process is safe and construction quality can be ensured.

The invention discloses a detachable rope clip and belongs to the technical field of connecting device structures in lifting conveying machines mainly used for cableways. The detachable rope clip comprises an inner fixed cable clamp fixed to a center rod through a front supporting plate, and an outer frame type movable rope clamp. The inner fixed rope clamp is located in the outer movable rope clamp. The two sides of the center rod are connected with spring sets through U-shaped bolts. Meanwhile, walking wheel sets are fixed to the front supporting plate. The structure that when the spring sets are stressed and deformed, a guiding shaft can conduct infinite linear motion in the stressed direction of rolling friction of a linear bearing is formed. The structure is more suitable for cableways with the climbing angle ranging from 0 degree to 45 degrees. The detachable rope clip is simple in structure and high in bearing force and has the advantages of being long in service life, low in cost and convenient to maintain and overhaul.

The invention discloses a protective device for an aerial cableway. The protective device comprises a machine head fixed unit, a machine tail tension weight unit, a person transporting steel wire rope and a capturing brake control unit, wherein the capturing brake control unit comprises a capturing pull rope, a tension spring mechanism and a capturing winch; the capturing winch is arranged at the tail end of an aerial cableway machine, the other end of the capturing pull rope is rolled on a hoisting barrel and can be released, and the hoisting barrel controls the hoisting barrel to release the capturing pull rope through a tensioning sensor arranged on the machine tail tension weight unit; and the person transporting steel wire rope is provided with at least one pawl braking mechanism, and the capturing winch drives a pawl and a rope supporting wheel to work together to clamp the person transporting steel wire rope through releasing the capturing pull rope. The protective device provided by the invention can reliably brake the steel wire rope in time so as to block a hanging seat in the case of a galloping accident of the aerial cableway; if the person transporting steel wire rope suddenly breaks when the aerial cableway operates, the protective device can reliably capture the person transporting steel wire rope in time, and the protective device can prevent passengers from falling when the person transporting steel wire rope is broken.

The present invention provides a method for operating a ropeway system and the operating a ropeway. The ropeway system has a valley station and a mountain station. A supporting and conveying cable displace transport devices between the stations, and / or the system has at least one supporting cable, on which the transport devices are displaced with a conveying cable. The inclined positions of transport devices in relation to the vertical operating position are sensed by a respective sensor on the transport devices. When a first limit value for the inclined position of one of the transport devices is exceeded, a transmitter transmits a first control signal from the transport device to a receiver in one or both stations. The first control signal reduces the speed of the conveying cable. When a predetermined second limit value for the inclined position of a transport device is exceeded, a second control signal is transmitted to the receiver. The second control signal switches off the drive for the conveying cable.

The invention discloses a submarine sightseeing diving system with a submarine fixed rail or a submarine cable suspended in a cableway as the route. The system comprises a rail or a cableway, a diving compartment, a water power traction cable system or a self-provided power system of the compartment. In the diving sightseeing system, a high-pressure gas cylinder in the compartment helps a user in the compartment to breathe; and the pressure of the diving compartment and the pressure outside the compartment are regulated to be balanced through a pressure balancer with the high-pressure gas of the high-pressure gas storage cylinder, so as to prevent the dizziness, the vomiting and other adverse reactions of a passenger, provide a broad view for the passenger so that the submarine sightseeing is freer, and solves the possibility of polluting and damaging submarine environment and harming benthonic organisms. The submarine sightseeing diving system applies the concise and practical working principle and scientific design and meets the demand for the submarine sightseeing of a large number of passengers, and the flexible and variable design can satisfy various requirements of various areas.