Device for transporting persons on a cableway system

Abstract

In order to prevent the cooling of chair lift seats that is perceived as being unpleasant by skiers, the seats have at least one element with good heat storage capacity at operating temperature. The element is preferably integrated in a seat cushion and/or in a back cushions and it has, for example, a covering in which a solid or fluid material with good heat-storing characteristic is contained.

1 . A device for transporting persons in a cableway system, the device comprising: 
 a fastening device for attachment to a supporting and conveying cable;    at least one seat connected to said fastening device, said at least one seat having a seat cushion and at least one element with good heat storage capacity at an operating temperature of the device.    
   
   
       2 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said element is integrated in said seat cushion.  
   
   
       3 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said seat further has a back cushion.  
   
   
       4 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said element is integrated in said seat cushion and in said back cushion.  
   
   
       5 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said element comprises a covering containing a solid or fluid material having a superior heat-storing characteristic.  
   
   
       6 . The device according to  claim 1 , wherein said element is a body with a substantially solid spatial form containing a material having good heat-storing properties therein.  
   
   
       7 . The device according to  claim 6 , wherein said body is a foamed structure or a fabric structure.  
   
   
       8 . The device according to  claim 1 , which comprises a heating device connected to said element.  
   
   
       9 . The device according to  claim 8 , wherein said heating device surrounds said element at least in some regions thereof.  
   
   
       10 . The device according to  claim 8 , wherein said heating device is disposed within said element.  
   
   
       11 . The device according to  claim 8 , wherein said heating device is a sheet-shaped device having heat-spending heating lines fitted therein or thereon.  
   
   
       12 . The device according to  claim 11 , wherein said heating lines are electric heat conductors.  
   
   
       13 . The device according to  claim 8 , wherein said heating device is formed with a connection to an energy storage device.  
   
   
       14 . The device according to  claim 13 , wherein said energy storage device is a battery connected to said heating device and disposed on the device.  
   
   
       15 . The device according to  claim 13 , wherein at least one of said heating device and said energy storage device includes a connection for an external energy source not disposed on the device.  
   
   
       16 . The device according to  claim 8 , wherein said heating device includes a connection for an external energy source not disposed on the device.  
   
   
       17 . The device according to  claim 16 , wherein said connection is disposed on one of said fastening device and a supporting rod of the device.  
   
   
       18 . The device according to  claim 5 , wherein said heat-storing material is a continuously-dispensing heat spender.  
   
   
       19 . The device according to  claim 5 , wherein said heat-storing material is configured to output heat based on a pulse or upon substantially permanent mechanical loading.  
   
   
       20 . The device according to  claim 19 , wherein said pulse is a mechanical pulse.  
   
   
       21 . The device according to  claim 1 , which comprises a heat-insulating covering surrounding said element.  
   
   
       22 . The device according to  claim 21 , wherein said element is integrated in said seat cushion and said seat cushion forms said heat-insulating covering.  
   
   
       23 . The device according to  claim 21 , wherein said heat-insulating covering is configured, on a side of said element facing towards a user, to have an increased heat-conducting capability under pressure.  
   
   
       24 . The device according to  claim 23 , wherein said heat-insulating covering is compressible on a side thereof facing the user.  
   
   
       25 . The device according to  claim 1 , which further comprises a control device controlling said heating device.  
   
   
       26 . The device according to  claim 25 , which further comprises a temperature sensor connected to said control device for detecting a temperature of said element.  
   
   
       27 . The device according to claims  1 , wherein said element or a material contained in said element has a latent-heat-storing capacity at an operating temperature of the device.  
   
   
       28 . A cableway system, comprising: 
 a supporting and conveying cable; and    a multiplicity of devices for transporting persons having fastening devices for fastening to said supporting and conveying cable, and being configured according to  claim 1 .    
   
   
       29 . The cableway system according to  claim 28 , which comprises conductor rails connected to an external energy source for supplying energy to said element, disposed in at least one station of the cableway system.  
   
   
       30 . The cableway system according to  claim 28 , comprising a cableway station configured for garaging said devices during non-use thereof, and conductor rails in said cableway station connected to an external energy source for supplying energy to said element.  
   
   
       31 . The cableway system according to  claim 28 , which comprises at least one of a temperature sensor and a central controlling unit for charging at least one of said energy storage device and said elements disposed in at least one station of the cableway system.