Equipment for cycle tracks, trestles and bridges

Abstract

The purpose of the equipment is easing the cycling conditions for cyclists and other operator powered vehicles. It makes it easier to enter short steep ascents (bridges and trestles) by using the cyclist's hand and leg muscles and the power of the cyclist's weight. At that, hand-rails and gutter for cycle's wheels are applied. Additional equipment on elevated cycle tracks (roof and transparent side walls) protects against the effect of rain, hot weather, cold weather and contrary wind. Jalousies in the walls let through only winds that are blowing in the direction of the cyclist's movement. Special wind-catchers can be used, which concentrate outer air flow and turn it to the direction of the cyclist's movement. On elevated cycle tracks, rented bicycles can be widely used. The carrying capacity of a two-row, one and a half meters wide cycle track will equal to eight thousand cyclists per hour. Using a modernized bicycle will increase the carrying capacity of ordinary or elevated cycle tracks up to twenty-twenty five thousand cyclists per hour as in subway. Small dimensions, absence of noise, exhaust and vibration allows this cycle track to choose optimal routs and when it is needed, to go through buildings and offices and in the same time provide the residents and personal with rented bicycles. This way, the transportation problem can be reduced by delivering passengers “door to door”. The same way, solving of fuel and ecological problems as well as the aim of bringing the population into a healthy state is made easier. At the same time, solving of some serious economical problems is made easier as well as decreasing of the number of traffic accidents can be reached.

1 . Equipment for cycle tracks, trestles and bridges, intended for comfortable entry up by a ramp on a bicycle, containing: 
 a gutter for bicycle wheels, installed on the roadbed;    hand-rails for the hands of the cyclist, installed along the mentioned gutter.    
   
   
       2 . Equipment for cycle tracks, trestles and bridges, intended for comfortable riding on a bicycle, containing: 
 a roof over the cycle track, protecting it from atmospheric precipitations;    side walls on the sides of the cycle track, having jalousies that allow penetration of outer wind flow, which is directed in the cyclists' movement direction, to the cycle track.    
   
   
       3 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 2 , wherein the walls of which are made transparent.  
   
   
       4 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 2 , wherein the mentioned jalousies are equipped by automatic and/or remote control.  
   
   
       5 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 2 , on the roof of which a wind-catcher is installed, containing: 
 an upright frame, the ribs of which are interconnected by crossbars;    valves, hinged to the mentioned crossbars and intended for directing of outer wind flow down via an embrasure in the mentioned roof to the cycle track in the cyclists' movement direction.    
   
   
       6 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 5 , containing hinged embrasures, which prevents wind flow in the direction opposite to the cyclists' movement direction.  
   
   
       7 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 6 , wherein the hinges of the mentioned embrasures has automatic and/or remote control.  
   
   
       8 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 5 , wherein a wind-driven unit, which is intended for placing qn the bottom of the mentioned wind-catcher on the way of the wind flow, is installed on the roof of the cycle track.  
   
   
       9 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 5 , wherein vertical fatnesses are installed along the mentioned ribs of the frame for increasing the concentration of the outer wind flow.  
   
   
       10 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 1  and/or  2 ,  9 , wherein the roadbed of which has a steep assent and a following gentle slope in the direction of the cyclists' movement.  
   
   
       11 . Equipment, as recited in  claim 1  and/or  2 ,  9 , containing accessories for parking bicycles and/or bicycles for rent.