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Patent attorney «, Michael Korn MOneh.n-Kroilling

Gartenstrasse 13 c 2 P Io + On) H CYTBC (Prance)

78-La Verridre / France

Traneportbahn for non-powered ones Individual vehicles or cabins

The invention relates to a transport device, for example for passenger transport, with independent vehicles preferably of the type which in turn do not have a drive power source.

Bs are already a means of transport, also known for people which uses independent and "passive" vehicles, i.e. no single vehicle with its own drive source. Between The individual vehicles or cabins are different stations of such a means of transport or transport moved substantially at a constant speed by various known drive means, e.g. Ribbons, ropes, chains and so on, which may be in closed loops. Every vehicle that goes to If the purpose of unloading and / or loading is to be stopped in a stop, this is done in front of the station by the actual route, for example, branched off over a switch and, with the constant speed that is still present, arrives on a parallel lane, which is, as it were, duroh the station leads behind and behind the station a launching or attachment of the vehicle to the conveyor of the Main route permitted. When serving the individual stops of such means of transport or transport facilities, the following tasks must be solved: the from Vehicles derived from the main line and brought to the stations on the side tracks must be braked.

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^{d after stopping again bls} ground ^to that accelerates ", which corresponds to the speed of the main strand.

The present invention relates to active and / or braking transport routes for vehicles or cabins that do not have their own drive, in particular for the mentioned sidings in stops of transport systems of the above type The same principle can be used to accelerate behind a bus stop and which can be used for practically all transport equipment that uses motorless vehicles, e.g. cabins, cars and the like.

rdern. The invention creates an arrangement for transporting such "passive" cabins or the like at the same speed as well as for accelerating and braking. The same physical principle is used in all of these cases.

The invention therefore relates to a transport device of the type indicated at the outset and is characterized by that the device for changing the speed of each small vehicle and, if necessary, for taking along one each individual vehicle at a constant speed at least one in the longitudinal direction of the transport route gradual yielding and draining surface in shape a web which is elastically supported at least over a large part of its length, and that means are provided to in the web a transverse wave with selectable speed in front of or behind the Generate vehicle in the direction of its desired movement.

In the transport device according to the invention is - for example in contrast to a railroad or a rack railway or

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a cabin of a cable car sucked on pull ropes - the actual Küblira or the "vehicle" is completely passive, and the route, which represents the track or the path for the vehicle, is the active part in the sense that the movement, lneb ^ oixdere «In accelerating and braking, the necessary forces are applied by the actual track itself. Dlecse Prlnslp has the following orientation when transversal lights are generated in the soft supporting surface of the invention, on which, for example, a vehicle is moving at a constant speed, then the front of the vehicle can "hit" the leading edge of a leading light when the propagation occurs The speed of the wave running ahead is smaller than the speed of the vehicle itself. If the speed of the light is greater than that of the vehicle in one of those conveyor belts on which a vehicle moves with constant wind speed, then a falling speed will interfere with it Flank of a trailing wave at the rear of the vehicle. In the first of these two cases, the vehicle is turned and such a vehicle can even be brought to a standstill if the propagation speed of the braking waves is brought to the value zero. Ib the second case, the vehicle is accelerated, where it even 1st possible to accelerate a vehicle from a standstill by the propagation speed of the "shifting ⁿ wave from the value zero to greater than one are lK8t. The invention thus allows to build a railway Ib meaning a roadway, which in turn supplies the forces required for driving, starting and braking the vehicle moving or rolling on it, without the vehicle itself being accelerated or braked in any way, for example by a built-in motor or by a pulling rope. Railway "is particularly useful for the side tracks leading through corresponding stops of main lines in the sense that on the main

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A real advantage of the fire is that dl · kteatleeSwa Orv ^ ilp ^ n are reversible, that is, that an eoleS "" JBsIm * In frlnzlp scmohl susi Bressen can use the mn flank of the mx braking vehicle on the flank a vornuelmifendon Holle accrue IKBt than can berablaufen a wave generated behind the vehicle and to accelerate, indsts rmn the zn accelerating Pahrseug on the falling edge. it is particularly important that the susi acceleration and also required for firing forces clay required anyway train , on which the vehicle is aired, can be applied, which means that no additional materials are required. If you only want to use the device according to the invention for braking vehicles, you can choose a simplified design. In this case, the track has a soft and resilient support surface, which you can see extends in the direction of the vehicle's locomotion, and is over a corresponding part of its length elastically supported. The weight of the vehicle presses the track under the vehicle, and the kinetic energy of the vehicle sweeping away produces a wave-like continued undulation. When ran the propagation of these BindrUoktms example, opposes a flow resistance is then given custody when braking the image DAFL the KLNT ^ieChe Bnergle ^ _{00% χχ} braking vehicle virtually converted into heat is · Re is particularly important that only the railway to the invention because of their Properties that can absorb braking forces and no additional equipment is required.

Particularly useful embodiments of the invention are described in the sub-tests. The following is the

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Explained using exemplary embodiments with reference to the drawing. In this show:

Figures 1 and 2 schematically a first execution

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FIGS. 3 to 5 provide explanations of the physical

Basics of the operation of the arrangement according to Figures 1 and 2;

Figures b, 7 and 8 schematically further embodiments of the invention;

Figures 9 and Io further embodiments of the execution

approximately example according to FIG. 8; and

11 schematically shows a main route one after the other

Invention working gondola lift with several not self-propelled Cabins.

FIGS. 1 and 2 schematically show an active transport path, that is to say that provides the propulsion and braking forces, for transporting passengers in individual vehicles, not shown, which for their part do not have to have any drive or braking means. Such a roadway, which is not rL-level cabins or comparable vehicles, both tr.- _o . as well as leads and drives, is referred to below as ⁿ path ^w . The web in FIGS. 1 and 2 initially has a supporting surface which consists of a band of flexible material, for example a textile web. This textile web rests on cross members 2, which can for example consist of a metal, on punches 3a and 3b, which are movable in the vertical direction. In the embodiment shown, two punches Ja and 3b are arranged under each of the cross members 2, which are arranged at the same distance in the direction of travel

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Wear textile bra 1. The lower ends of the stamp 3a dzw. 3b of each of the two parallel rows of stamps are attached to the upper ends of two tubes 4a and 4b made of deformable material, which each run under the two sides of the textile web 1. The hoses 4a and 4b lie with their undersides on a hollow box 5 with a transverse rectangular cross-section, which lies under the textile web 1 on the floor. Two longitudinal and upstanding continuous partition walls 6a and 6b subdivide the box profile into three longitudinal cross-sections, namely two rare channels 7a and 7b and a central channel 8. These three channels are fed with a pressurized fluid by means of known means not shown, which is in the side channels 7a and Jb is under a high pressure and in the middle channel 8 under a lower pressure. Furthermore, in the deformable hoses 4a and 4b, transverse partitions or subdivisions 9a and 9b are arranged at regular intervals between the punches 3a and 3b continuously over the length of the web, so that - as clearly shown in FIG. 2, each hose 4a and 4b ioa and lob is divided into equally long, dense spaces. The subdivisions 9a and 9b can consist of a deformable material, for example of the same material as the hoses 4a and 4b, and can also be glued on their circumference to the inner wall of each hose. Each between two subdivisions 9 *. or 9b existing cavity Ioa or lob in the hoses 4a or 4b is connected or connectable via a valve 11a or 11b to the central channel 8, in which the lower pressure prevails, and each cavity is provided with two subdivisions by means of a valve fabric 12a or 12b in connection with the underlying side channel 7a or 7b, in which the higher pressure prevails. The valves 11 and 12 can be of any desired type, for example electromagnetically actuated.

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The mode of operation is schematically shown in FIGS. 3 to 5 the web according to the invention explained. With 1 the load-bearing and deformable textile web 1 is shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 indicated by a substantially horizontal line. Io represent the various elastic supports the web 1, welohe each in the execution according to the Figures 1 and 2 by a cross member 2, the nozzle Yes and 3b and the two cavities loa and 10b are formed in the tubes. Bs is a vehicle 1> shown schematically, in the shape of a ship, wherein this only happened, in front and behind at first To be able to distinguish look. The invention is of course not limited to a certain type of vehicle which is conveyed or transported on the "active" track. is moved. The cabins or containers or other bodies to be transported, which are moved on the flexible or deformable web 1 which forms the supporting surface can slide like a slide on the track. About rollers, wheels, air cushions and similar supports that are usually found under bodies or vehicles provides in order to be able to transport them on an upper surface that cannot be moved in the direction of travel. Although the invention is fundamentally concerned with a means of transport for objects that are not self-motorized or otherwise driven, in particular vehicles one can also use the basic idea of experience to move use individual vehicles that probably have their own energy source or are driven from the outside, e.g. by a cable, if for whatever reason you does not want to fall back on the existing drive of the individual vehicles, which is often useful both for stopping such vehicles and for accelerating after a stop. Figure 3 shows schematically a vehicle 13 I » State of rest on the load-bearing, flexible track 1. The

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The weight of the vehicle depresses those flexible support elements Io which are located under the surface with which the vehicle rests on the track 1. This Longitudinal area is denoted by A. It can also be seen that a few other supports Io, which are located in front of and behind the vehicle, are also depressed each on a stretch B, which is referred to as the front and rear binding zone. The length Each bonding zone B depends on various parameters which are essentially dependent on the design and the meaning of which is explained below.

In the AusfUhrungsfortn according to Figures 1 and 2 are in Idle state all valves 11a and 11b open, so that the lower pressure of the pressure medium in the various cavities 10a and 10b in the hoses prevails, whereby the various elastic supports 10 according to Figures 3 to 5 »which are formed by these cavities with the have the same minimum height, at least for areas B behind the vehicle, A under the vehicle and B in front applies to the vehicle. In order to start the vehicle 13 from standstill in the direction of the arrow F in FIG. 4, i.e. to accelerate it, those valves 11a and 11b which are in the cavities are suddenly closed 10a or 10b lead, which are just behind the stationary vehicle IJ and you open this at the same time Valves 12a and 12b associated with cavities, so that precisely these cavities mentioned directly behind the vehicle be filled by the high pressure fluid which is sbh in the side channels 7a and 7b. This results in a lifting of the elastic supports 10 (according to the diction of FIGS. 3 to 5) behind the stationary vehicle IJ, which is shown in FIG.

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belsplel is held at a fixed point only at its front end, assumes the profile that is indicated in FIG. Now the valves 12a and 12b of the cavity located immediately behind the stationary vehicle 15 are closed and the associated valves Ha and 11b are opened, and the reverse control processes of the valves of those cavities 10a and 10b which are just in front of the aforementioned cavities are effected , ie, cavities just below the vehicle 15. This results in a displacement of the falling flank 15 of the shaft initially formed behind the vehicle 13 in the direction of arrow F in FIG progressive wave of the web 1. it can now be the "wave" as shown in FIG. k and thus the certain extent of this shaft run-down vehicle to proceed by in apparent catfish the valves of the successive cavities 10a and 10b in the manner described in succession in the direction of Arrow F is active. The control of the valves in the described manner _{A in} such a way that a "wave crest" located behind the vehicle pushes the vehicle on the front flank of the shaft in front of it can be achieved particularly easily when using electromagnetic valves. If the valves assigned to the successive cavities are activated one after the other in the same time segments and if the time for filling the respective cavities with the increased pressure is the same for all cavities, then the wave generated behind the vehicle 13 advances at a uniform speed. One can increase the speed of propagation of the "wave" from a very low value or the value zero to the speed at which one then wants to run the vehicle 15 by progressively

siv in the direction of arrow P makes the time intervals smaller between the two operations on each other the following cavities in the hoses, and / or by making the filling time of successive cavities smaller when pulling with the high pressure. This latter result can be achieved in particular in that the full opening cross-section of the valves associated with the successive cavities is allowed to be stepped in the direction of the desired acceleration. At a An advantageous embodiment are the appropriately electromagnetically controlled valves that are used for filling and emptying of each cavity 10a and 10b are used, by means of known devices, such as pressure or mechanically controlled Electrical contacts controlled by the filling or emptying of cavities lying ahead with respect to the vehicle location, or by the transverse displacement of the supporting web 1 or the supports thereof, i.e. the parts 2, 3a and 3b, which are determined by upstream cavities or their degree of filling.

The conveying device described so far in the form of a wave motion executing path can also be used if necessary. Braking or decelerating a vehicle 13 leading to a stop may be used which arrives at an end of a track at a uniform speed V, if only that end of the flexible web 1 at which the web is fixed at 14 is upstream or in front of the vehicle 13. In other words, this means that a Such a transport path is only used to accelerate or brake vehicles running in one direction when the web is fixed at both ends. A vehicle that is already moving can therefore be accelerated and braked at will. This advantage of the reversibility of the driving force is Dei a further

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A partial embodiment of the invention is achieved in which the load-bearing web 1 is not only placed on the crossbeams 2, but rather is connected to at least some of these crossbeams. In this case, the supporting web is to be read out elastically deformable in the direction of its longitudinal extension and / or the upper ends of the supporting structures 2 and 3a, 3b must be elastically displaceable in the same direction, which is given because of the deformability of the hoses 4a and Kb .

How to get from Flg. 5, a transverse "wave" is generated in front of the vehicle 13 to be braked for braking, and by filling the corresponding cavities or compartments 10a and 10b bit the high pressure, for which the height of those flexibly mounted support elements of the web is increased, which form the rising ramp 16 of the braking shaft; in this case, the shaft is left in the direction of the vehicle to be braked 13 by the above in connection with the Acceleration of the vehicle described means first run at a speed that is the same or even slightly greater than the speed V of the vehicle 13 to be braked, and then reduces this speed, if necessary. To the value zero.

The embodiment of the invention described so far, with whose help you can generate both accelerations and decelerations independently of the mass of the vehicle, can be trained in many ways. The various cavities 10a and 10b can in particular be independent of one another. On the other hand, it is enough that they each have an upper deformable wall on which a movable support structure such as parts Ja or Jb rest. For example, such a conveyor track according to the invention can be made which is only used for braking vehicles is apt to in-dera one the two rows of cavities

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10a and 10b connects with a single line that over runs the length of the now working as a braking track conveyor track and contains a fluid that is kept under constant pressure, through openings that have a smaller cross-section in the direction of the movement of the vehicle to be braked. In such an embodiment, in the two parallel rows of Cavities create undulating indentations that progress with decreasing speed. Since at least part of the kinetic energy of the vehicle to be braked is converted into heat in such a conveyor belt used for braking, they are expedient Cooling devices provided, especially for the Lines carrying fluid under pressure.

In all embodiments of the invention, the compliant bearing surface 1, i.e. the "track" and the moving parts of its elastic support, i.e. the cross members 2, the supports Ja and Jb and the deformable upper sections of the tubes 4a and 4b in tracks 1 and 2 Have weight per unit area, which is in the same order of magnitude as the quotient of the total weight of each vehicle 1J and the area with which each vehicle rests. If these two interacting masses are approximately equal, then obtain one in the Bnergle transition from the passive vehicle to the active, i.e. the energy-supplying or consuming path, the best results. In order to be able to meet this condition, it may be necessary to use the cross members 2 according to FIG to weight down lateral weights 17, i.e. to increase their inertial mass. If you meet this condition, then results - as tests have shown - the best mode of operation of the arrangement: the advancing transverse wave becomes in the supporting web 1 such dzw. generated in such a place that the vehicle IJ is permanently

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acceleration - see Pig. 4 - on the at> falling edge 15 Defined and in case of braking - see Flg. 5 - on the rising flank 16, with flanks 15 and Ib the advancing "wave" has different slopes have 13 in front of and behind the vehicle. Specifically, in the case of acceleration according to FIG. 4, it is behind the vehicle encounter a greater slope and in the case of deceleration or braking of the vehicle 13 is the slope larger in front of the vehicle, which is shown in FIG. 5. These conditions ensure the stability of the acceleration or braking of the vehicle: if, for example, vehicle 13 is momentary when accelerating for any reason has a speed slightly slower than the following wave, and if therefore the position of the The vehicle moves slightly in the direction of the vertex of the wave with respect to the falling flank 15 of the wave, then -s increases. 4 - the inclination of the vehicle 13 to the horizontal is slightly because of the greater slope of the sloping flank 15 of the wave in the rearward direction from the vehicle 13; this then results in an increase in the propulsion component of the vehicle 13 and "aao

<··} 'this results in an acceleration of the vehicle which receives tendency daduro ^v -Ue to continue down again on the falling edge ir shaft. Obviously, if the current speed of the vehicle 13 is briefly greater than the speed of the subsequent wave, the reverse process takes place, which brings the vehicle back into its Sdlstellung on the falling flank 15 of the wave, which is shown in FIG is shown. This is a stable position in the sense of a stable equilibrium, vias also for the braked vehicle 13 on the supporting flank 16 of the leading wave

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Appropriately - see Flg. 3 - the imprinted areas B in front of and behind the stationary vehicle in the flexible and load-bearing web 1 about as large as the largest Dimension A of the support surface of the vehicle 15 in the direction • Its movement · This condition can only be achieved by suitable choice of the longitudinal elasticity and / or the tension of the supporting and resilient sheet 1, as well as by defining the degree of freedom of movement of the elastic support elements 10 (one could e.g. the supports 3a and 3b in the exemplary embodiment according to Flg. 1 and 2 in a vertical direction) · Determine all of these conditions in particular the speed at which the elastically supported and resilient web moves in the longitudinal direction Deformation wave can propagate »the weight and the kinetic energy of a vehicle to be braked (see Fig. 5) is generated. These conditions also ensure that the length of this progressive deformation wave is greater than the largest dimension A of the support surface of the vehicle in the direction of its movement. After another Expedient ideas of the invention should, in a transport path designed for braking, the load-bearing, resilient and elastically underpinned path should have a transversal natural swinging frequency that is small and appropriate is of the order of a few Hz. As a result, the resting vehicle 13 generates its weight duroh in the load-bearing Web or surface 1 has a compression with a depth H (see Fig. 3) which is large enough that in the event of braking the vehicle in front of it in track 1 generates such a high wave that its movement is quickly braked when the Bigen transversal frequency of the elastically underpinned Orbit 1 is in the Bereloh of about 1 Hz, then that generates A vehicle at rest in this soft trajectory caused an indentation about 25 cm deep; this is sufficient to effectively brake a vehicle in this case.

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The exemplary embodiment of the invention according to the schematic representation of FIG. 6 differs from that The previously described exemplary embodiment only has the feature that the tray 5 has only a single channel 18 running through it, in which a fluid circulates rapidly under constant pressure, and that each cavity 10a or 10b can be connected to this single channel 18 by means of a curved pipe 19 which is in such a way is mounted that it is rotatable about an axis 2o which is perpendicular to the channel l8 and also perpendicular to the supporting Lane 1 is standing. In the embodiment according to FIG. 6, the axis 2o goes through the lower hand or the bottom of the support box 5 through a tight bushing 21 and there are not shown means are provided outside the box 5 to the Rotation or rotational position of the curved pipe I9 over its axis 2o between the position shown in solid lines, in which the manifold is against the Flow according to arrow f opens, and to be able to change the opposite position, the dash-dotted line in Fig. is shown. The mode of operation of this exemplary embodiment differs from that according to the exemplary embodiment according to FIGS. 1 and 2 only in that each Cavity 10a or 10b is filled with fluid, i.e. in particular a liquid under pressure, when the the corresponding pair of cavities associated pipe elbow is rotated into the position in which the Liquid can enter unhindered, which is shown in Fig. 6 with solid lines. On the other hand the corresponding cavities are subjected to significantly less pressure when the pipe bend 19 is rotated into the position shown in phantom. Note this the direction of flow, which is shown by the arrow f! The embodiment according to FIG. 7 differs only because the vertical, movable supports Yes and 5b, only one of which is shown in each case, bear against floating bodies 22 with a relatively large surface area,

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tarred. corresponds to that in Pig. 5 explanations

In a further - _not shown - exemplary embodiment of a track according to the invention for braking vehicles , the surface of a longitudinally extending body made of elastic material is used as the load-bearing track, which is equipped in its interior like an umbrella with many cavities , which in turn have an Oa _{5 are} filled and are in connection with each other and with the atmosphere. The operation of such a "control layer" processing tet after recalling Figure ₅ Principle explained..

In the embodiment _ernäß g of the perspective Dar position of FIG. 8 "Accordingly, there is the load-bearing" path of the definition of the exemplary embodiments described so far from a relatively flexible cable or a pipe 23 wel ches rests on arms 2k. The arms are pivotally mounted on the we sentlichen vertical posts or beams 25 articulated at hori zontal pivot axis. the carrier 24 may be prepared by a resilient spring force into and out of the horizontal he be pivoted out. for this purpose, on each perpendicular right support 25 which carries a carrier 24 pivotable in the a bellows or the like. arranged so that each can be pivoted to _G eordnete carrier 24 of FIG. 8 obvious way, by expansion and contraction of the bellows. There are further provided two conduits 27 and 28 containing a fluid under high pressure or under low pressure arranged along the conveyor track and, for example, held on the supports 25. Means not shown, e.g.

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Electromagnetically controllable valves are used for any connection of each bellows 2b to one line 27 or to the other line 28, that is to say to the high pressure or to the low pressure. The embodiment explained with reference to FIG. 8 can therefore carry out the active drive of a cabin which itself has no drive, both in terms of acceleration and braking of such a Kaoine Ij5, which is, for example, a hanging cabin for two people and on a cable trolley 29 hangs, whose wheels Jo can run on the rope or the pipe 23. The principle of acceleration and / or braking and / or a uniform drive at the same speed corresponds to the modes of operation that have been explained with reference to FIGS. In the embodiment according to FIG. 9, in which only seen in the direction of travel, a carrier 24 is shown which is pivotably mounted on a post 25, two identical bellows 2ba and 2bb are arranged vertically one below the other so that the two bellows face in opposite directions Serve pivoting the carrier 24 in the two directions of the arrows. When the valve 29 is closed, the same low pressure prevails in the two bellows 26a and 26b as in the line 28 and the carrier is held in the horizontal position according to FIG. The two bellows 26a and 2bb exert elastic restoring forces on this carrier or arm 24, which represent a pretension into the horizontal position shown. After opening the valve 29, the high pressure from the supply line 27 is built up in the lower bellows 26a, which causes the carrier or arm 24 and the suspension cable or rope 23 to be raised.

While with the implementation forms according to Fif ^ ns 8 and 9 llittel are provided to ozw the support arm. the support arms 24 to steer horizontally pivoting, namely in the darcestelli; on Cases the glasses 2b dzw. 2f> a and 2bD applied to this carrier

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Applying 24 return preload forces in the direction of the horizontal is in the case of the execution bracket according to Pig. Io the return force is brought about by a spring 3o, which in turn is trimmed at one end on the associated post 25 and acts with its other end on the pivot arm 24. In addition, an electromagnet 31 serves to pivot the arm or carrier 24, which is anchored on the one hand to the post 25 and, on the other hand, acts on a movable armature 52 which in turn is fastened to the swivel arm 24. When executing according to Pig. The electromagnet is mounted pivotably on a tie rod 33, which in turn protrudes from a braking device 34 that acts like a damper. The braking device is in turn rigidly connected to the post 25. This arrangement decelerates or brakes when the electromagnet 3I _{1 is} excited and therefore the armature 32 is attracted. an upward pivoting movement of the arm or carrier 24 that is too rapid. When the magnet is excited, damping is switched on.

The embodiments of an active drive path according to FIGS schematic representations according to Figures 8 to Io can can be simplified in order to obtain a "path" suitable only for braking. If you only want one braking track, then it is sufficient to resiliently move each horizontal beam or arm 24 into the horizontal with at least one source of force Pre-tensioning position. Such an elastic biasing force can be ensured by a simple spring - as in Fig. Io - or by one or more bellows, which with a single line leading along the track, which in turn contains a fluid under constant pressure, or are connected by openings whose free cross-sections are in the direction of movement of the vehicle to be braked are smaller, so that you practically in the direction of travel successive Bellows receives a compression wave that increases with decreasing

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Speed In the direction of movement of the person to be braked Vehicle propagates.

Fig. 11 shows a diagrammatic side view of a cableway with a drive through the track in the sense of the present description, the whole track being extended to allow several cabins or gondolas IJa, IJb, 13c etc. to close at a uniform speed to drive. Each cross member or anchor 24 is set in an upward and downward pivoting movement by control means roughly in the manner of the one described in FIGS. The pivoting movements have the same amplitude and frequency for all pivoting arms] the phases of these pivoting movements of the successive arms 24 are shifted relative to one another in such a way that the deformable suspension cable or rope 23 is roughly the same as that shown in FIG. 11 is a perfect slus shape, with this sine configuration moving in the direction of arrow F at the speed at which the various cabins 13a, 13b ... are to be driven. As can be seen from FIG. 11, during the drive process the cable trolleys or trolleys 29a, 29b ... of the various cabins 13a, 13b ... are located on the sloping front flanks of the successive waves "dl" formed by the profile of the deformable cable 23 are. The individual vehicles remain at the same distance from one another «, this distance corresponding to the length of a sine wave. An active transport track of this type can be used both to «transport the vehicles or wagons of a passenger transport system at low speed through a" station ¹¹ of such a system "and as a route between two stations or" train stations "« ie «to replace the conventional means of transport of this type.

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Claims (1)

C 2 P Io + GmH Claims 1. ^ Transport device, for example for passenger __ / traffic, with independent vehicles of preferably the type that in turn have no drive power source, characterized in that the device for changing the speed of each individual vehicle and, if necessary. To take everyone along Single vehicle with constant speed has at least one resilient and load-bearing surface running in the longitudinal direction of the transport route in the form of a path, which is elastically supported at least over a large part of its length, and that devices are provided in front of a transverse wave at a selectable speed in the path or behind the vehicle in the direction of its desired movement. 2. Device according to claim 1, characterized in that the web and the elastic supports per unit area have approximately a weight which corresponds to the order of magnitude of the quotient of the total weight of an individual vehicle and its support surface. J. Device according to claim 1 and 2, characterized in that the elastically supported, resilient load-bearing surface (1) is pressed in by each vehicle (Ij5) resting on it over a length which is of the order of magnitude approximately the greatest length of the bearing surface of the vehicle in the direction of the Movement corresponds (see Fig. 2). 4. Device according to claim 1 to 3, characterized nekennzeich- 209829/0409 net that the progressive transverse wave (see Fig. 4) in the supporting surface (1) is generated at such a point with respect to a vehicle that the vehicle be m braking of the same constantly on the rising wave flank (16) and in the case of acceleration the trailing edge (15) runs of the shaft, and that dio slopes of the wave front and different from behind the vehicle in d ^r r way that the slope is greater ahead of the vehicle during braking (s. Fig. 5) and during acceleration ( see Fig. 4) the slope behind the vehicle is greater than in front of it. 5. Device according to one of claims 1 to 4, characterized in that the resilient, load-bearing web (1) luf elastically mounted supports (2, 3) is arranged one behind the other in the longitudinal direction of the web and can assume different height positions, and that the vertical position of each support (2,5) can be changed successively in the direction of the desired vehicle movement in front of and / or behind the vehicle. 6. Device according to claim 5 # characterized in that the resilient, load-bearing surface (1) is fixed (14) at least at one of the ends of the track, namely for braking the vehicle in front of the same and for accelerating the vehicle behind it. 7. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that the load-bearing, soft, web-shaped surface (1) can slide freely on the upper surfaces (on top of 2) of the elastic supports (2,3) and on the supports (2,3 ) is held in Länßsrichtunc, and that the upper sections or parts of these elastic supports and / or the supporting sheet (1) are elastically displaceable in J3ahnrlchtunß. 8. Device according to one of claims 5 to 7, characterized in that the load-bearing surface consists of at least one web (1) made of soft peat, which is mounted on elastic or elastically mounted aligned connecting pieces via cross members (2) weighted down if necessary , the cross members and / or the connecting pieces and / or associated connecting means being agitated essentially vertically. 9. Device according to claim B, characterized in that for the elastic support of the web these are arranged on cavities or chambers arranged one behind the other in the web direction with at least a resilient load-bearing surface, and that these cavities for the purpose of lowering or raising the deformable, load-bearing surfaces in the direction of the moving vehicle can be loaded and unloaded sequentially with a fluid under pressure. 10. Device according to claim 9, characterized in that each cavity, ie each chamber (lo). Can be coupled to two fluid lines, which run along the route and of which one carries a fluid under high pressure and the other a fluid under low pressure (see FIG. 1), can be coupled to two fluid lines which are suitably designed to be electromagnetically designed. 11. The device according to claim lo, characterized in that the same functions exerting valves of successive cavities (lo) can be actuated at the same time intervals and that the full opening cross-sections can be changed in steps to generate transverse waves of the web of different speeds. -X- 12. Device according to claim 9, characterized in that each of the successive bodies (lo) with elastic surfaces is connected to a line running along the path through a curved pipe in which a fluid flows under pressure at high speed, and that the curved tube is rotatable about an axis (2o) perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the line (18, Fig. 6) so that the opening of the curved tube within the line points against the direction of flow (f, Fig. 6) or in the direction of flow. 1?. Device according to one of claims 9 to 12, characterized in that the charge or discharge of each chamber (lo) is controlled through the filling or emptying of one or more of the same chambers or by the transverse displacement of the web or the supports, which lie by the upstream Chambers are effected. 14. Device according to claim 9 # characterized in that the longitudinally aligned chambers are formed by transverse walls (9) in at least one tube (4) made of deformable material, which in turn is under the load-bearing surface for the track forming the vehicles (1) 'unordered 4 15 * Device according to one or more of claims 5 to 7 #, characterized in that the supporting surface is formed by at least one elastic rope or tube (23; Flg. 8) which rests on cross members (24), which in turn are essentially vertical posts (25) are arranged pivotably in the horizontal, that an elastic restoring force 209829/0409 -5- pivotable carrier (24) biases upwards, and that each ann (24) is controlled pivotably up or down against the elastic bias. ifc device according to claim 15, dnrtnrch indicates AaßTieTd- Am ₁ (24) impressed elastic bias is supplied by a spring (26) , which acts on one end Z of the ordered post (25) and on the other end on the swivel arm (24). 17th Bellows (26) is provided between (25) and the arm (24) hinged to it see post 2, _above preferred works, and te "£" ^ ^^ _fle eiefctromagncUsc.be tat 5 ^ ^ ^^ , .β Α » _{ar lrt>} „ _{1β den nohen} run and ent.an at the train station. to run. Claim 15 and Ib. dednrch p; ekennzeich · ^ Ff is provided, _{at least} one * ^ ° 2% Z » Prosten ( ₂₅ ) and the, Ar» _der between «· * · -« _{beweEl1 anchor d} es Ha ₅ - " one according to Art.!" - _M n, pfers from _E e- d _tl a _E ne one after A Br -e _Z u _m verxan ^ an-en the move ^ des _tl a _E ne-Bi = htun _B on the anchor is provided . . "_ _Braking a transport facility with I ₉ . Bi « ^rioht " l «eugen. Preferably passenger vehicles -""do not have their own drive means In a _duroh Rlchtun _B; ffciie ^ r ^ laurende which tra _C flat. 209829/0409 156865 at least for a considerable part of their length is elastic. 20. Device according to claim 19, characterized in that the elastically supported wing has a low natural frequency or resonance frequency of a few Hz. 21. Device according to claim 19 or 2o, characterized in that the supporting surface is the upper side of a long body made of elastic material which has numerous gas-filled bubbles, which in turn are possibly in connection with one another and with the ambient air. 22. Device according to claim 19, characterized in that the load-bearing surface consists of at least one web of soft material which is supported by vertically movable and possibly guided nozzles via possibly weighted cross members. 23. Device according to claim 22, characterized in that the movable connecting pieces stand up on the deformable upper pits of cavities which are arranged in alignment with one another under the soft supporting web and are in communication via fluid openings with a line containing a fluid under constant pressure, wherein the flow openings of successive chambers have smaller cross-sections in the direction of the vehicle to be braked. 24. A rub-in barrel according to claim 22, characterized in that the flexible supports (3b | Pig. 7) stand on floats with a large surface, which for their part are immersed in a floating pad (35) which is j η uiutstii canal is located below the braking line. ineü1O / ft, (19 25. The device according to claim I9, characterized in that the supporting surface is formed by at least one soft rope or tube which rests on arms which in turn are pivotably articulated on substantially vertical posts so that at least one elastic biasing force into the arms prestresses horizontal position. 26. Device according to claim 25, characterized in that the prestressing forces for the pivotable arms are supplied by bellows which are each hinged to the associated post and act on the respective pivot arm and with a single fluid line which leads along the braking section and a fluid contains under constant pressure, are connected by openings that have smaller cross-sections in the direction of the movement of the vehicle to be braked. Blank page