WO2012038619A1

WO2012038619A1 - Elevator station for an urban cable car

Info

Publication number: WO2012038619A1
Application number: PCT/FR2011/000514
Authority: WO
Inventors: Denis Creissels
Original assignee: Creissels Technologies
Priority date: 2010-09-22
Filing date: 2011-09-21
Publication date: 2012-03-29
Also published as: FR2964930A1; FR2964930B1; EP2619060B1; US20130180425A1; CA2811160A1; EP2619060A1

Abstract

According to the invention, the cable of the passenger transport equipment in an urban environment is elevated and extends over the middle of the street (5), and the vehicles (1) stop in an elevated state in the station. An automatic mechanism, comprising an elevator jack (12) and a pull-out platform, makes it possible to transfer the passengers from the sidewalk on the ground to the elevated vehicle by means of a vertical movement followed by a transverse movement.

Description

Lift station of an urban cable car

Technical field of the invention

The invention relates to an aerial public transport installation for persons having vehicles carrying carrying cables and to loading and unloading stations for persons, at least one of the stations, situated in an urban environment, having a location of stopping the vehicle, arranged in height above the road, said stopping location being spaced transversely from a grounded persons access location.

State of the art

In urban cable cars, vehicle taxiways are usually located high up, above the level of city traffic, in the middle of the street, and vehicles stop in front of platforms, which are themselves high up on the edge of the road. the way. Access to these docks requires stairs, lifts, escalators, ... and footbridges and therefore an important infrastructure. Object of the invention

In urban transport, there is a double optimization for each station; on the one hand volume and transparency for a better insertion in the urban fabric and secondly on the ground to encroach on at least the road, especially on the sidewalks. The urban cableway lanes are thus above and in the middle of the roadway, away from the sidewalks where the users of the air facility normally move.

The purpose of the present invention is to provide a simplified station, without loading and unloading docks, at and at the edge of the stopping place of the vehicle.

The installation according to the invention is characterized in that an automatic mechanism transfers the persons from the ground access location to the stopping height position of the vehicle and that the automatic mechanism is implanted in the parking area. access of people on the sidewalk and comprises a lifting means combined with a transverse translation means. Those wishing to embark enter a lift-type cabin at the ground stop at the access location, preferably along the pavement on the sidewalk. In synchronism with the arrival and the stop of the vehicle in station, the elevating means, for example constituted by a jack, raises the cabin at the level of the vehicle and the means of translation, for example in the form of drawer, brings and attaches the cab to the vehicle. The cabin has, in a usual manner, a door opening at the same time as the door of the vehicle to allow the passage of people from the cabin in the vehicle. Conversely people can disembark from the vehicle entering the cabin and after closing the doors be brought to the ground by a reverse operation.

The whole is fully automated and the cabin can also be a lock control of the vehicle load, controlling the entry into the cabin based on the number of people in the vehicle and those arriving from the vehicle. It is easy to see that the footprint of the station is limited to the size of the cabin and that any safety barrier or guiding passengers is unnecessary. The components of the automatic transfer device are well known per se, for example an elevator hydraulic cylinder mechanism and a control cylinder for a telescopic drawer. In the lowered position of the cabin on the pavement the mechanism is advantageously retracted into a pit formed in the sidewalk.

When the cabin is on the curb, it must have two doors, one on the front side to bend to the vehicle and another on one side facing the sidewalk, depending on the access conditions

According to an alternative embodiment of the invention, the elevator type cabin is carried by the end of a horizontal arm fixed by its other end to the axis of the lift cylinder. This telescopic axis is arranged in such a way that the movement of extension and therefore of elevation is accompanied by a movement of pivoting of the arm and thus of a transverse movement bringing the cabin against the stopped vehicle. A single door of the cabin can, in this case, provide access to the ground and the passage to the vehicle.

According to another embodiment, the automatic transfer mechanism supports the vehicle, previously disconnected cables, to move transversely and vertically and bring it to the ground on the sidewalk. A telescopic drawer is slid under the vehicle to extract it from the track and move it straight up the sidewalk. The lift cylinder then descends the vehicle on the sidewalk. The exit of the vehicle of the way completely releases this one for the passage of express vehicles not stopping in this station. The passengers disembark on the ground in perfect security on the pavement and others embark directly in the vehicle, which by a reverse movement is raised at the level of the track, then moved transversely to come straight to the track, to which it is re-coupled. This embodiment requires, in the case of a heavy vehicle, a real transfer machine, but the sidewalk is fully released in the absence of embarkation and disembarkation operations.

According to another variant embodiment, the automatic transfer mechanism is decomposed in two. One, as in the previous variant, supports the vehicle, previously disconnected cables, to move it transversely, and the other, in a synchronized manner, lifts vertically a lift-type cabin to the vehicle level. The said cabin has a door opening at the same time as the vehicle door to allow the passage of people from the cabin in the vehicle and vice versa. After closing the doors, the cabin is returned to the ground for the disembarkation of the passengers at the same time as the vehicle is moved transversely to come straight to the track, to which it is re-coupled. This embodiment has essentially the advantage in its operation of the time saving of the transfer, and in its realization of manipulating the vehicle minimally over a short distance to spread it transversely from the main track and to use a cab of standard lift for the vertical movement of passengers on a relatively large difference in height, concluding at an equivalent transfer time of both trips. Finally this embodiment, like the previous one, frees the main way of the installation allowing to pass express vehicles not stopping at the said station.

Brief description of the drawings

Other advantages and features will become more clearly apparent from the following description of various embodiments shown by way of example in the accompanying drawings in which;

FIG. 1 is a schematic view in elevation of a station according to the invention, FIGS. 2 and 3 are views, respectively from the side and from the plane, of the station according to FIG. 1,

FIGS. 4 and 5 are views similar to FIGS. 2 and 3 showing the cabin in the high intermediate position,

FIGS. 6 and 7, similar to FIGS. 4 and 5, show the cabin contiguous to the vehicle,

FIGS. 8 to 13 are similar views, respectively of FIGS. 2 to 7, illustrating an alternative embodiment of the invention,

FIGS. 14 to 19 are similar views, respectively of FIGS. 2 to 7, illustrating another variant embodiment.

FIGS. 20 to 25 are similar views, respectively of FIGS. 2 to 7, illustrating another variant embodiment.

In FIG. 1, passenger transport vehicles 1 roll on carrier cables 3 supported at height by towers 4. The traffic lane of vehicles 1 extends above a roadway 5 at a height sufficient to do not encroach on the road gauge 6, shown in dashed lines in FIG. 2. The vehicles 1 stop at an intermediate station 7 for a loading and / or unloading of the passengers 2. Referring more particularly to FIGS. 2 to 7, see that the station 7 is equipped with a cabin 8 for transferring passengers 2, waiting at a location of access 9 to the ground, in this case on a sidewalk, to a vehicle 1 at a stopping place 11 in height. The cabin 8, elevator type, is carried by a hydraulic cylinder 12, housed in a pit 10 of the sidewalk, which raises the cabin 8 at the vehicle 1 stopped in the station 7 (Figure 4). On the cylinder 12 is fixed a telescopic drawer 13 carrying the cab 8 to move laterally and attach to the vehicle 1 (Figure 6). In contiguous position, a door (not shown) of the vehicle 1 is in front of a door (not shown) of the cabin 8 and the opening of these doors allows boarding and / or disembarkation in perfect safety. The cabin 8 is returned to the ground by reverse movements of retraction of the telescopic drawer 13 and the lift cylinder 12.

The device according to the invention is fully automated and operates as follows: Cabin 8 is normally on the ground and the entrance door (not shown) is open. The number of persons authorized to enter is controlled by a load control device, according to the number of passengers present in the vehicle 1 and the number of passengers stopping at this station. The approach of the vehicle 1 of the station 7 triggers the transfer operation by closing the door of the cabin 8, the elevation of the cabin by the cylinder 12, the connection of the cabin 8 to the vehicle 1, by extension of the telescopic drawer 13 and the opening of the doors from the cabin 8 to the stopped vehicle 1. The transfer is carried out in complete safety and the cabin 8 can be completely closed. Cabin 8 is returned to the ground by an inverse operation. The mechanism for moving the cab 8 is located on the sidewalk along the road 5.

The infrastructure of station 7 is simplified and has no fixed part at the level of the airway. The footprint is limited to the size of cabin 8.

In the following figures, the same reference numerals designate parts similar or identical to those of the preceding figures.

Figures 8 to 13 illustrate an embodiment in which the cabin 8 is moved by a mechanism consisting of a single cylinder 14, which carries at its end a horizontal arm 15. The cabin 8 is disposed at the free end of the arm 15. In the lowered position of the jack 14, shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the arm 15 extends at ground level parallel to the path formed by the carrying cables 3 and the passengers can enter the cabin 8 in the manner described herein. -above. The jack 14 is of the type with vertical extension, accompanied by a rotation pivoting the arm 15. The movement vertical elevation of the cabin 8 is thus accompanied by a transverse movement bringing the cabin 8 to the vehicle 1. The various phases of these movements are shown in Figures 10 to 13 and it is unnecessary to describe the operation of the station which is identical to that described above. The assembly is arranged to avoid an encroachment of the arm15 and the cabin 8 on the template 6 of the road. The two movements of elevation and rotation are not necessarily concomitant and the rotation can take place after the elevation. Figures 19 to 14 are views, similar to Figures 2 to 7, of another embodiment. In this variant the jack 12, similar to the jack of Figures 2 to 7, comprises a telescopic drawer 16 long enough to come, in extended position, to slide under the vehicle 1. The cylinder 12 no longer has a cabin, but it directly supports the vehicle 1 to transfer it from the height-off location (Figures 14,15) to the ground-access location (Figures 18,19) and vice versa. In the stopping position (FIGS. 14, 15) the vehicle 1 is uncoupled from the cables 3 and the drawer 6, coming under the vehicle 1, takes charge of it. As previously described the retraction of the slide 16 transversely moves the vehicle 1 and the retraction of the cylinder 12 lowers the vehicle 1 at ground level. By a reverse maneuver the vehicle 1 is transferred from the ground, after boarding passengers, to the height position under the cables 3 to which it is re-coupled. For this purpose the vehicle 1 comprises declutching pliers (not shown) or a detachment device of the passenger compartment, well known in the art. Similarly the attachment of the vehicle 1 on the drawer 16 is made by any suitable means well known. The device is fully automated and it is unnecessary to describe the operation that is identical to that of the previous devices. The vehicle is heavier than an elevator car and the size of the transfer machine is adapted to the corresponding increase in weight. Boarding and landing are carried out on the ground in perfect safety. When the installation is stopped, the sidewalk is completely free.

Figures 20 to 25 are views, similar to Figures 2 to 7, of another alternative embodiment. In this variant, the cabin 8, elevator type, is carried by a hydraulic cylinder 20, housed in a column 17 located on the sidewalk, which raises the cabin 8 at the vehicle 1 at station 7 in the station which is uncoupled cables 3, supported by the drawer 18, and moved transversely to the platform 19, attached to the column 17, at the cab 8 which arrives at the same time (Figures 24, 25). After the unloading and / or embarkation of the passengers of the vehicle 1 in the cabin 8, by a reverse maneuver the vehicle 1 is moved transversely under the cables 3 to which it is re-coupled at the same time as the cabin 8 has descended to ground level for the disembarkation and / or embarkation of passengers. The device is fully automated and it is unnecessary to describe the operation that is similar to that of the previous devices.

The line is usually two lanes and the station is then equipped with a second mechanism on the opposite sidewalk.

Claims

claims

1. Aerial public transport installation of persons having vehicles (1) rolling on carrying cables (3) and stations (7) for loading and unloading persons (2), at least one of the stations, located in the middle urban, having a stopping location (11) of the vehicle (1), arranged in height above the road (5), said stopping location (11) being spaced transversely of an access location (9) ) persons on the ground, characterized in that an automatic mechanism transfers the persons from the access location (9) to the ground towards the stopping place (11), in height, of the vehicle (1) of the installation, and that the automatic mechanism is located on the ground in the access area of persons and comprises a lifting means (12; 14) conjugated to a transverse translation means (13; 15; 16).

2. Installation according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises a cabin (8) of the elevator type and a mechanism (12,13), (14,15) of displacement of the cabin (8) between the location of access (9), where persons enter and exit the cabin (8), the ground and the stopping place (11) of the vehicle (1), where persons embark and disembark the vehicle (1) while passing cab (8), contiguous to the vehicle (1), to the vehicle and vice versa.

3. Installation according to claim 2, characterized in that the mechanism comprises a cylinder (12) elevator vertical extension and a slide (13) horizontal translation associated with the lift cylinder.

4. Installation according to claim 2, characterized in that the mechanism comprises a jack (14) with a transverse arm (15) carrying a its end the cabin (8) and that the extension movement of the cylinder (14) is accompanied by a rotational movement pivoting the arm (15) to the stopping point (11) to join the cabin (8). ) to the vehicle (1).

5. Installation according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises means for disconnecting the vehicle (1) of the carrier cables (3) at the stop location (11) of the station (7) and a mechanism ( 12,16) of the vehicle (1), uncoupled from the cables (3), between the stopping point (11) of the vehicle (1) and the access location (9) on the ground where the people board and disembark the vehicle.

6. Installation according to claim 5, characterized in that the mechanism comprises a lift cylinder (12) of the vehicle (1) and a telescopic slide (16) supporting the vehicle to move it transversely.

7. Installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the automatic mechanism (12,13; 14,15; 12,16) is located on the sidewalk at the edge of the roadway (5).

8. Installation according to any one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the automatic mechanism (12,13; 14,15; 12,16) is retractable, in the retracted position, in a pit (10) formed in the ground.

9. Installation according to claim 1 characterized in that it comprises two automatic means, one of vertical displacement of a cabin (8) lift type, and the other high, which translates the uncoupled vehicle cables (3) from its stopping position to its docking at the cabin (8).

10. Installation according to claims 1 and 9 characterized in that the two movements, vertical cab (8) and transverse vehicle (1), are simultaneous and / or synchronized.