JP6566469B2 - Cable carrier for motorcycles - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a cable carriage that can be transported by mounting a plurality of two-wheeled vehicles on a cableway such as a ski resort.

  Recently, there are an increasing number of ski resorts where sports and leisure are performed using two-wheeled vehicles such as mountain bikes using ski slopes and forest courses during off-season. These ski resorts have cableway facilities for transporting skiers and snowboarders during the ski season, and some ski resorts use this cableway facility to transport motorcycles.

  In general, a large facility such as a gondola lift is installed only in a large-scale ski resort, but a chair lift is used for almost all ski resorts. Therefore, if the chair lift can be used for transporting a motorcycle, the motorcycle can be transported at more ski resorts. For this reason, techniques for mounting a motorcycle on a chair lift have been proposed (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).

  The mountain bike transport apparatus described in Patent Document 1 has a T-shaped transport member attached to the rear part of a carrier (carrying device), and a horizontal frame of the mountain bike is hooked on a hook that protrudes rearward from the transport member. Like to do. In addition, the lift carrier with a motorcycle transport function described in Patent Document 2 includes a first wheel holding portion provided at a high position on the side and a second low position on the other side in the rear portion of the frame of the carrier. The wheel of the two-wheeled vehicle is hooked to the two-wheel holding part.

Japanese Utility Model Publication No. 3-47271 JP 2006-281910 A

  In the above conventional example, a two-wheeled vehicle is mounted on the rear part of the chair lift carrier, and there is a problem that only one two-wheeled vehicle can be transported to one carrier. On the other hand, there is also a demand for transporting a plurality of two-wheeled vehicles in cableway facilities that operate a recent gondola lift. Is done.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and provides a two-wheeled cable carrier for carrying a two-wheeled vehicle that can easily load a plurality of two-wheeled vehicles and can maintain the posture of the two-wheeled vehicle in a stable state. Objective.

The present invention relates to a gripping machine for gripping a rope, a suspender suspended in a swingable manner in the front-rear direction on the gripping machine, and a two-wheeled vehicle equipped with a rack rail that is suspended by the suspender and mounts a two-wheeled vehicle. comprising a frame and, the motorcycle mounting frame comprises an upper horizontal portion extending in the longitudinal direction with respect to the cableway carriage traveling direction at the top, a vertical portion extending downward from the front end of the upper horizontal portion downwardly of said vertical portion And a lower horizontal portion extending rearward from the lower end, and the motorcycle mounting frame is provided with a weight material that adjusts the weight balance in the front-rear direction.

  According to the present invention, since the two-wheeled vehicle mounting frame that supports the rack rail is provided with the weight material, the cableway transporter is forwarded in the stop with a vertical posture while maintaining the balance in the front-rear direction. Becomes easier. In addition, since the shape of the two-wheeled vehicle mounting frame is formed in a U-shape with the rear opening, the suspension member is positioned in the front, so that the operator can move the two-wheeled vehicle along the rack rail without being obstructed by this. You can push forward and place it.

Side view of cableway Front view of cableway

    Hereinafter, specific embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG.1 and FIG.2 is the side view and front view of the cable carrier 10 which mounts the two-wheeled vehicle 30. FIG. The cable carriage 10 uses equipment of a gondola lift, and in each figure, the outer shape of the gondola passenger car is indicated by a two-dot chain line. In the present embodiment, a motorcycle mounting frame 14 described later is used instead of the gondola passenger car.

  The cable carrier 10 includes a gripping device 12 that grips the rope 11, a suspender 13 that is swingably swingable in the front-rear direction, and a motorcycle-mounted frame 14 that is suspended from the suspender 13. It moves in the track as the rope 11 moves. The cable tractor 10 shown in the figure is a cable tractor 10 used for an automatic circulation type cable tract, and a gripping machine 12 is configured so that the cable 11 can be seized freely. After unwinding, the vehicle decelerates and is routed through the stop at a low speed, and can stop at the stop during that time. Thereafter, the cable carrier 10 is accelerated, seizes the cable 11 and departs into the track.

  The two-wheel mounting frame 14 is configured as follows. First, the upper part is provided with lateral members 15 and 16 extending laterally at the positions of the front part and the rear part. Suspension plates 18 are fixed to both ends of the lateral members 15 and 16 so as to protrude upward, and these portions are connected to the suspenders 13 and suspended. A frame frame 17 is fixed to the horizontal center position of the horizontal members 15 and 16. In a side view (FIG. 1), the frame frame 17 includes an upper horizontal portion 17a that is fixed to the lateral members 15 and 16 and extends in the front-rear direction, a vertical portion 17b that hangs down from the front end of the upper horizontal portion 17a, and the vertical portion. The lower horizontal portion 17c extending rearward from the lower end of 17b is formed in a substantially U shape.

  The upper horizontal portion 17a extends rearward from the position of the lateral member 16, and a weight material 29 is provided in this portion. The weight material 29 has a predetermined mass, whereby the weight balance in the front-rear direction is adjusted. At the rear end portion of the lower horizontal portion 17c, a horizontal beam 21 extending left and right is provided, and a guide member 22 is provided at both ends. This guide member 22 abuts on a transporter guide 23 (see FIG. 2) laid in the stop, and prevents the cableway transporter 10 from swinging laterally.

  In the vicinity of both ends of the cross beam 21, a support portion 19 is formed by welding a steel plate, and a rack rail 24 is fixed thereto. The rack rail 24 is formed by bending a steel plate into a V-shaped cross section. As shown in FIG. 1, the rack rail 24 gently rises from the position of the rear end portion toward the front with respect to the traveling direction of the cable carrier 10. A rear inclined portion 24a that inclines, an intermediate inclined portion 24b that refracts obliquely forward and downward at a position past the center position of the cable carrier 10, and a horizontal portion 24c that projects horizontally forward from the lower end of the intermediate inclined portion 24b. And a front inclined portion 24d that refracts obliquely forward and upward from the front end of the horizontal portion 24c.

  A front wheel guide 27 is formed at the middle position of the front inclined portion 24d and the intermediate inclined portion 24b across both sides thereof, and a front wheel holding member 25 extending obliquely upward at the upper portion of the horizontal portion 24c. It has. The front wheel holding member 25 is formed by forming a round steel pipe, a round bar steel, or the like in an inverted U shape, and is configured to hold the front wheel from the left and right by inserting the front wheel of the two-wheeled vehicle 30 therein. A rear wheel holding member 26 is provided at the rear end of the rack rail 24 so as to be slightly wider than the wheel width of the two-wheeled vehicle 30 so that the rear wheel does not come off the rack rail 24 in the left-right direction.

  With the above configuration, the two-wheeled vehicle 30 is mounted as follows when the cable carrier 10 is being routed through the stop or stopped. First, the front wheel of the motorcycle 30 is lifted and placed on the rear inclined portion 24a of the rack rail 24 from the rear, and the motorcycle 30 is pushed forward in this state. At this time, since the shape of the rack rail 24 is V-shaped, the front wheels can be guided and go straight. When the front wheel of the two-wheeled vehicle 30 comes to the position of the intermediate inclined portion 24b on the front side, the two-wheeled vehicle 30 moves forward by its own weight, so the rear wheel is lifted and placed on the rear inclined portion 24a. When the front wheel falls to the horizontal portion 24c of the rack rail 24, the mounting is completed. In this series of operations, the frame frame 17 of the two-wheel mounting frame 14 that supports the rack rail 24 is formed in a U-shape that opens to the rear, so that a suspended member, that is, a vertical member 17b is located in the front. Therefore, the handler can push the motorcycle 30 forward without being disturbed by this.

  The rack rail 24 is configured such that the position of the rear wheel is higher than the position of the front wheel when the two-wheeled vehicle 30 is mounted. Therefore, the loaded two-wheeled vehicle 30 is subjected to a load on the front wheel side, and the front wheel Is pressed between the intermediate inclined portion 24b and the front inclined portion 24d of the rack rail 24, whereby the two-wheeled vehicle 30 is stably held. Further, at this time, since the front portion of the front wheel is inserted and held, the two-wheeled vehicle 30 does not fall sideways.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Cable tractor 11 Line 12 Grasping machine 13 Suspender 14 Two-wheeled vehicle mounting frame 15 Horizontal member 16 Horizontal member 17 Frame frame 17a Upper horizontal part 17b Vertical part 17c Lower horizontal part 18 Hanging plate 19 Support part 21 Cross beam 22 Guide member 23 Carryer guide 24 Rack rail 24a Rear inclined portion 24b Intermediate inclined portion 24c Horizontal portion 24d Front inclined portion 25 Front wheel holding member 26 Rear wheel holding member 27 Front wheel guide 29 Weight material 30 Two-wheeled vehicle

Claims (1)

A gripping device that grips the rope, a suspender that is swingably swingable on the gripping device in the front-rear direction, and a motorcycle mounting frame that is suspended by the suspender and has a rack rail for mounting the motorcycle. provided, the motorcycle mounting frame comprises an upper horizontal portion extending in the longitudinal direction with respect to the cableway carriage traveling direction at the top, a vertical portion extending downward from the front end of the upper horizontal portion downwardly, rearwardly from the lower end of the vertical portion A cable carrier for mounting a two-wheeled vehicle, comprising a weight member for adjusting a weight balance in a front-rear direction on the two-wheeled vehicle mounting frame.

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