US1122000A - Suspension-railroad without traction-cable. - Google Patents

Description

G. M. VON HASSEL.

SUSPENSION RAILROAD WITHOUT TRACTION CABLE.

APPLICATION FILED 0011s, 1912.

1, 1 22,000, Patented Dec. 22, 1914.

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GEORG M. voN HASSEL, or new scan, N. Y., assieivon, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, To! AMERICAN SUSPENSION RAILW'A'Yi COMPANY, or never, DELAWARE, A con- PORATION OF DELAWARE.

SUSPENSION-RAILRGAD "WITHOUT TRACTION-CABLE.

Specification. of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 16, 1912. Serial No. 726,169.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Gnono M. VON HASSEL, civil engineer, a citizen of Germany, residing at New York. in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a new System of Suspension-Railroad With out Traction-Cable, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in suspension railways, more particularly a monorail system, the object of the invention being to provide a novel monorail or sus pending device arranged to assist in the transportation of the car or wagon hung thereupon, the car furnishing its own traction power.

By means of my improved monorail system traction cables are obviated and a line of indefinite length can be constructed as I do not depend upon any element other than the rail and power carried by the car together with an intermediate element which is actuated by the power within the car and which acts upon the rail direct.

I will now proceed to describe my invention in detail in connection with the accompanying drawings, to which reference is had, and in which Figure 1 is a side elevation illustrating a suspended car and a portion of a monorail embodying my improvement; Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section thereof; Fig. 3 is a detail View of the driving or power exerting mechanism. Fig. 4: is a similar view illustrating the power mechanism in combination with a smooth surface rail; Fig. 5 is a plan view of the rail with branch rails; Fig. 6 is a detail view, illustrating a modified form of rail support.

As herein illustrated my improvement consists of a suspended rail or cable a provided with a continuous spiral or thread I). To force the car ahead I provide a rotatable nut or spiral mechanism 0. To facilitate the rotation of the nut c and to advance the car I provide the same with rollers or wheels d, the said rollers bearing against the smooth surface of the rail (1 and threads 5 and act as ball or roller bearings as well as an element of a nut. Each end of the nut or spiral 0 is provided with plates 6 which carry the power transmitting medium. One surface of each plate 6 is provided with a rail (not shown) against which wheels or rollers f bear, the said rollers acting to support the car through the braces 72, that is to say, the shaft of each roller f supports its adJacent end of the car. Motion is transmitted to the spiral or nut 0 through suitwill revolve upon the axis of the shaft which supports the car, the weight of the car acting to keep the rollers from rotating around the axis of the rail (4. The gears g may be rotated by any suitable device, in this instance, by pulleys 1" 9" which are rotated by the motor 1' (Fig. 3). To support the monorail, I provide, at intervals, suspension rods it, carried by supporting posts g. The plates 6 are provided with slots on which allow for the passage of the rods 72.. The distance between the rods 7t will be such that a certain number of revolutions of the nut 0 will cause the slot m to aline with the said rods. For instance, at the completion of a revolution the slot m Will be in a vertical position, and a rod in will be located say for instance, at every twenty threads or turns of the spiral b. It is obvious that the rods it will pass through the slots m if the said rods are located substantially at the top of a thread, at which point the slots on will be in a vertical position. The braces 70 may be of relatively thin material. s is a support having the form of a tube provided on its bottom with a longitudinal slit 2/; the object of this slit is to permit the passage of the rod-system on which the wagons are suspended. The diameter of this tube a must be larger than the diameter of the locomotion-mechanism c, in order to per mit the free passage of the latter through the tube ,9. If this support .9 is employed, the slot m on the front plates 6 can be dispensed with.

Although I have shown supporting posts g for suspending the device, I may instead of this form of support employ a simple arrangement of support such as is shown in dotted lines 7) in Fig. 2.

In Fig; is shown a plan view of the rail with branch rails, the reference characters in said figure indicating similar parts to those described for the other views, to w indicating the branch rails.

lVhat I claim and desire to secure by Let ters Patent is:

1. In a suspension rail-way, a rail, a rotatable propelling device suspended on said rail, means carried by and projecting beyond the surface of the rail adapted to facilitate the advance of the propelling device, and a car suspended from said propelling device, said propelling device being rotatable at an angle to the axis of the shaft.

2. In a suspension rail-way, a rail, a continuous thread or spiral carried by the rail, a rotatable nut carried by and projecting beyond the surface thereof the rail and engaging the spiral thereupon, a car suspended from said nut, and means to rotate said nut.

In a suspension rail-way, a rail, supports for said rail, spaced at intervals throughout the length thereof, supports for said rail supports, threads carried by said rail, a rotatable nut carried by said rail, and engaging the threads thereupon, a plate lo cated at each end of said nut provided with a slot for the passage of said rail supports, a

* car, suspended from said nut, and means to rotate said nut.

4. In a suspension rail-way, a suspended rail, a thread carried by the rail, suspending devices'carried by the rail adapted to support the object to be moved, propelling means in engagement with the thread on said rail adapted to advance the suspended object, and means to actuate the propelling means.

5. In a suspension railway, a rail, the surface of the rail being spirally formed, a rotatable nut engaging the spiral surface of the rail, a plate carried by each end of said nut, a rail mounted-on the outer surface of each plate, rollers bearing against said rail, braces supporting said rollers, a car carried by said braces, and means to rotate said plates.

6. In a suspension railway, a rail, the surface of the rail being spirally formed, a rotatable nut engaging the spiral surface of the rail, a plate carried by each end of said nut, a rail mounted on the outer surface of each plate, rollers bearing against said rail, braces supporting said rollers, acar carried by said braces, gears carried by the car, a gear carried by each plate in mesh therewith, and means to rotate said gears.

7.. In a suspension railway, a rail,a thread carried by the rail, a rotatable nut engaging said thread, a plate carried by each end of said nut, a rail mounted on the outer surface of each plate, rollers bearing against said rail, braces supporting said rollers, a car carried by said braces, and means to rotate said plates.

GEORG' M. VON HASSEL. Witnesses:

O'rro Gr. LINDBERG, L. HEIL.

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