Elevator station for an urban cable car

Abstract

The line of the passenger transport installation in an urban environment extends at a height over the middle of the street and the vehicles stop in an elevated state in the terminal station. An automatic mechanism, comprising a lifting jack and a telescopic platform, makes it possible to transfer the passengers from the sidewalk at ground level to the elevated vehicle by means of a vertical movement followed by a transverse movement.

1 . An overhead collective people mover installation having vehicles running on carrier cables and stations for the people to embark and disembark, at least one of the stations, situated in an urban environment, presenting a stopping location of the vehicle located in elevated manner above the street, said stopping location being transversely offset with respect to an access location for the people situated at ground level, wherein an automatic mechanism transfers the people from the access location at ground level to the elevated stopping location of the vehicle of the installation, and the automatic mechanism is installed in an access area for the people on the sidewalk and comprises elevator means in conjunction with means for performing transverse movement. 
     
     
         2 . The installation according to  claim 1 , comprising a car of elevator type and a mechanism for performing movement of the car between the access location where the people embark in and disembark from the car at ground level and the stopping location of the vehicle where the people embark in and disembark from the vehicle, going from the car, in abutment with the vehicle, to the vehicle and vice-versa. 
     
     
         3 . The installation according to  claim 2 , wherein the mechanism comprises a lifting jack with vertical extension and a telescopic support platform for horizontal translation associated with the lifting jack. 
     
     
         4 . The installation according to  claim 2 , wherein the mechanism comprises a jack with a transverse arm supporting the car at its end and the extension movement of the jack is accompanied by a rotational movement making the arm swivel towards the stopping location to bring the car into abutment with the vehicle. 
     
     
         5 . The installation according to  claim 1 , comprising means for disconnecting the vehicle from the carrier cables at the stopping location of the station and a mechanism for performing movement of the vehicle, disconnected from the cables, between the stopping location of the vehicle and the access location, at ground level, where the people embark in and disembark from the vehicle. 
     
     
         6 . The installation according to  claim 5 , wherein the mechanism comprises a lifting jack of the vehicle and a telescopic support platform taking up the vehicle to move the latter transversely. 
     
     
         7 . The installation according to  claim 1 , wherein the automatic mechanism is installed on the sidewalk at the edge of the roadway. 
     
     
         8 . The installation according to  claim 1 , wherein the automatic mechanism is retractable, in the retracted position, into a pit arranged in the ground. 
     
     
         9 . The installation according to  claim 1 , comprising two automatic means, one for vertical movement of a car of elevator type, and the other at the upper level, which translates the vehicle disconnected from the cables from its stopping position to an abutment position against the car. 
     
     
         10 . The installation according to  claim 1 , wherein the two movements, vertical movement of the car and transverse movement of the vehicle, are simultaneous and/or synchronized.