DELIVERY ROPEWAY Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC B61B7/02 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to ropeways. The delivery ropeway includes platform connected with shell filled with lighter-than-air gas and guide fixed on pillars, to traction cables actuated by electric motor installed on one of two adjacent pillars of span, switch assemblies containing bypass sections and turning sections with traction cable drive engine providing change of platform movement direction in intersection points of movement directions, switch assembly control units providing control of switch assemblies and traction cable motors switching to ensure platform delivery from departure point to destination point. Guide is made as cable. Traction cable is made as looped cable passed over rollers of adjacent span pillars. The pillars installed at points of departure and destination are equipped with platform lowering mechanisms containing hoist with grip which hoist is made capable to move in vertical direction along pillar. Shell consists of two or four balloons connected in series and located on frame along movement direction between two traction cables, and platform is detachably fixed at the centre of frame using docking unit.

EFFECT: extended area of application of delivery ropeway.

14 cl, 6 dwg