RU2786541C1 - Mini-rail transport system - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: mini-rail transport systems.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to mini-rail transport systems. Mini-rail transport system contains a closed network of overhead mini-rail tracks with a contact power supply, boarding and disembarking stations, turnouts, as well as a vehicle with single seats suspended from the mini-rail using brackets with rollers covering it with the letter C. The undercarriage of the vehicle consists of a long composite rectangular pipe, on which brackets with rollers are fixed at the top with a step of about 2 meters, a cab for the driver and an electric drive with driving wheels pressed to the lower head of the mini-rail are suspended from the bottom to the front of the composite pipe. To each of the other parts of the composite pipe to the end of the vehicle, several dozen seats or containers for cargo are suspended, not exceeding the established linear weights and dimensions. Doors of seats of cylindrical shape with a small difference in diameter have axes of rotation installed on the partitions coaxially with the geometric axis of the seat. The arrow of the turnout is the continuation of the mini-rail with the carrier beam from the place of their rigid pinching with the tracks to its movable end in the horizontal plane, pivotally connected to the double-acting pneumatic cylinder.

EFFECT: increased speed of the vehicle, the passenger traffic and freight traffic increase.

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Description

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to mini-rail modes of transport for movement on overhead mini-rail tracks of the same design as for its closest analogue.

This well-known mini-rail transport system "Bitran" according to patent No. 2754607 with single suspended velomobiles driven by the muscular strength of the passenger himself. It is good as an environmentally friendly transport for large exhibitions, sports and tourist centers, national and ecological parks, as well as for urban and suburban traffic and, of course, a new healthy attraction and technical sport. However, it has such disadvantages. The speed of its movement and carrying capacity are relatively low, as they are limited by the physical capabilities of a person. Due to the need to maintain a distance between velomobiles following one after another, the entire length and carrying capacity of the track structure is also inefficiently used for their safety. And the switch of this patent is designed for a short single-seat velomobile, which can interfere with a long and relatively rigid multi-seat vehicle that needs a smoother turnout with a large turning radius.

The technical result of the invention is a significant, at times, increase in the speed and carrying capacity of the transport system on a mini-rail track of the same design as its closest analogue -.

This result is achieved by the fact that the chassis of the vehicle is made of a long composite rectangular pipe, on which there are brackets on top, covering the mini-rail with the letter C with support, side and support rollers, and from below, to the front short part of the composite pipe, a cab for the driver is suspended. and an electric drive with driving wheels pressed up to the lower head of the mini-rail, and several dozen seats or containers for goods with not exceeding the established linear weights and dimensions are suspended from each of the other parts of the composite pipe to the end of the vehicle, and the doors are cylindrical in shape with a small the difference in diameter has axes of rotation coaxial to the geometric axes of the seats, and the arrow of the turnout is the continuation of the mini-rail with the carrier beam from the place of their rigid pinching with the tracks to their end, movable in the horizontal plane, hinged to the double-acting pneumatic cylinder.

The essence of the invention lies in the fact that due to the electric drive and the multi-seat design of the vehicle with the optimally dense arrangement of passengers one behind the other and the smallest linear load on the mini-rail, both the length and the carrying capacity of the track structure are used more efficiently, as a result of which the speed of movement is significantly, many times increased. , and carrying capacity of the mini-rail transport system. Even with a minimum speed of 60 km/h, a vehicle length of 500 passengers of 1 km, a distance between successive vehicles also of 1 km, and an embarkation and disembarkation time of 20 seconds, the carrying capacity of the transport system is 15,000 people per hour. And this is the carrying capacity of the metro or 300 fifty-seater buses.

The essence of the invention is illustrated by drawings, where in Fig. 1 shows a side view A of the vehicle suspended from the mini-rail 1 with the help of brackets 2 covering it with the letter C, rigidly connected to the composite pipe 3, for the entire length of the vehicle, to the front of which the cab 4 for the driver with a transparent fairing 5 and electric drive 6 with driving wheels 7 pressed against the lower head of the mini-rail 1, and further, to the end of the vehicle, several dozen single seats 8 of a cylindrical shape with transparent doors 9 for boarding and disembarking on different sides of the seat, with upholstered seat-bed 10 with seat belt not shown and adjustable backrest.

In FIG. 2 shows a section along B-B of a seat 8 and a two-track with mini-rails 1 on load-bearing beams 11 rigidly interconnected by jumpers 12 and suspended with the help of guys 13 to not shown load-bearing ropes and supports in a position when the seat 8 has a left door 9 is open, and the right one is closed, and the seats 8 suspended from the composite pipe 3 for fastening between themselves in front and behind have rigid vertical racks 18, and the rear of them is rigidly connected with a partition 14 between the seats, 2/3 of the upper parts of which are made transparent, and both doors 9 of a cylindrical shape with a small difference in diameter, when opened, can go inside - into the upper part of the seat 8, rotating around unrelated axes mounted on racks 18 coaxially with the geometric axis of the seat 8.

In FIG. 3 shows a top view of the kinematic diagram of the turnout, in which, due to the small transverse dimensions of the supporting beam 11 with a mini-rail 1 and brackets 3, covering it with the letter C with support 15, side 16 and support 17 rollers, the arrow 20 serves as a continuation of the path 1, consisting of a mini-rail 1 and a carrier beam 11 from the place of its rigid pinching to its movable end in the horizontal plane, pivotally connected to the double-acting pneumatic cylinder 21. At the same time, arrow 20 along its entire length is reliably protected from loads bending it in the vertical plane with the ability to bend in the horizontal plane within the limits of elastic deformation.

It will be much easier and faster to operate a mini-rail transport system with an electric drive than rail transport, and even the subway, since passengers are boarded and disembarked on opposite sides of the vehicle’s lash and their flows do not collide with each other in the way that it happens now on platforms or doors of carriages at railway stations and subways. From the boarding side, passengers, according to the purchased tickets, with a second accuracy in time, stand at the waiting places indicated on the tickets, against which, in the immediate vicinity behind the transparent fence, the seats corresponding to their tickets in the whip of the approaching vehicle will stop. Immediately, after the vehicle stops, on the landing side, the doors of those seats from which passengers who arrived at this station disembark, and on the landing side of those for which tickets were purchased, as well as passages to them in the fence, open. In seconds, passengers arriving at this station vacate their seats and go down the stairs to the exit of the station, and those leaving this station will also take their seats in the same seconds, fasten their seat belts, about which signals are sent to the traffic control panel and if all Normally, the seat doors will close and the vehicle will smoothly but quickly take off and make room for the next vehicle arriving at that station. And seat belts are needed not only for unforeseen cases of emergency braking, but also for relatively sharp braking when stopping at a station and picking up speed when leaving it. If at the same time any interference occurs, they are quickly eliminated by the appropriate services.

The design of the vehicle allows you to assemble them, as well as trains of different passenger capacity and different lengths. They can be both purely passenger and purely cargo, and, if necessary, of a mixed type, that is, cargo-and-passenger. The volume of the seat with a diameter of not more than 1 meter and a length of about 2 meters allows passengers to take hand luggage with them in a standard container with a handle for quick stowage in place behind the back of the seat and removal from there when disembarking.

New long-distance electric mini-rapid rapid transit tracks could be laid next to existing rail lines, as there would be less need for land acquisition, and in some places it may not be necessary. The proposed mode of transport may well take over all or a significant part of the flow of passengers from the railway, due to which the railway will be able to significantly increase freight traffic.

Due to the lightness and suspended structure of the vehicle, boarding and alighting stations can be built on light supports above the sidings of historical railway stations, usually located in the centers of populated cities. The proposed type of environmentally friendly mini-rail transport with electric or other drive will be effectively used both for unloading long-overloaded railway lines, and for relatively easy installation of new lines over the existing spatial transport infrastructure. That is, to connect rapidly growing settlements in regions such as Moscow within the new borders and the Moscow Region with additional cross transport lines.

It is economically and environmentally very costly to do this with automobile or railroads, since it is ruinous and environmentally harmful not only to build the roads themselves, which take large areas of land from agricultural circulation, and often make them inaccessible not only for agricultural machinery, but even as pastures for livestock. But even more ruinous is the need to build a large number of transport interchanges of intersecting paths at different levels.

The use of overhead mini-rail transport for this purpose will solve the problem at a tenfold lower price without the indicated negative consequences. It is impossible to overestimate the truly global economic and environmental significance of accelerating the implementation of mini-rail modes of transport. After all, light, maneuverable whips with a diameter of no more than a meter of mini-rail transport with an electric drive, with optimal speed, capacity and length, will be able to ensure the transportation capacity of the metro, but with incomparable comfort. Thus, instead of the expensive underground metro construction projects currently being worked out in many megacities in the world, to solve the problem of transport at a tenfold lower price with comfort inaccessible to any other mode of transport, the feeling of flying with open views of both the surrounding nature and the architectural merits of cities.

Claims (1)

Mini-rail transport system containing a closed network of overhead mini-rail tracks with a contact power supply, boarding and disembarking stations, turnouts, as well as a vehicle with single seats suspended from the mini-rail using brackets with rollers covering it with the letter C, characterized by by the fact that the undercarriage of the vehicle consists of a long composite rectangular pipe, on which brackets with rollers are fixed at the top with a step of about 2 meters, from below to the front of the composite pipe a cab for the driver and an electric drive with driving wheels pressed to the lower head of the mini-rail are suspended, to each of the other parts of the composite pipe to the end of the vehicle, several dozen seats or containers for cargo are suspended, not exceeding the established linear weights and dimensions, the doors of the cylindrical seats with a small difference in diameter have rotation axes mounted on coaxial partitions o with the geometric axis of the seat, the arrow of the turnout is the continuation of the mini-rail with the carrier beam from the place of their rigid pinching with the tracks to its movable end in the horizontal plane, pivotally connected to the double-acting pneumatic cylinder.

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