Railways inventions 05/07

20070119331 - Lifting systems for high-rise buildings: Elevators for use during construction, maintenance and emergency evacuation which ride on rails on the outside perimeter of buildings are proposed. The rails can be on flat or curved walls. Building setbacks may have movable rail sections connecting the setback wall with the outer perimeter wall for the elevator to... Agent: Steven E. Kahm, Esq. Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070119332 - Tram steering system: A tram has a lead vehicle and one or more trailing vehicles coupled to it. Each vehicle has sets of front and rear wheels, both sets being steerable independently of the other. A manual controller provides signals to a processor in the lead vehicle, which in turn steers the front... Agent: James E. Bradley

20070113752 - Toggle slide-plate for railway spike puller: A toggle slide-plate for use in a spike-pulling machine, where the toggle slide-plate is configured for aiding in supporting the movement of a pair of pivotable arms each having a spike-pulling claw configured for removing a spike from a railroad tie, the pair of pivotable arms being configured for moving... Agent: Greer, Burns & Crain

20070113753 - Drive for an amusement ride: A amusement ride has a positionally fixed supporting structure on which transport devices for persons circulate. A rope drive conveys the transport devices about the supporting structure. The rope drive has one single closed-loop conveying rope which, in being crossed over by way of a deflecting device, forms two rope... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070113754 - Guideway and chassis system for wheel based rail running vehicle: Guideway and chassis system of wheel-based, rail running vehicles comprising a guideway system (2-6) including substantially horizontal bases (3), two parallel rails (4) and mainly vertical guide rails (5) extending along both sides of the rails (4), with mainly horizontal inward flanges (6) in a vertical distance above the bases... Agent: Jacobson Holman PLLC

20070107620 - Method and a device for the rail traffic on multiply, parallel guide-ways also as toys: A Method and a device for a rail traffic on parallel guide-way and also as toys which are effected and consist by a vehicle with wheels or linear motor sleds which, by means of transport member preferably from a kind of hydraulics (at toys by springs or folded bellows), is... Agent: Wolfgang Wagner

20070107621 - Structure and operation of a three dimensional transportation system: This invention provides methods of guideway construction and vehicle operation for a three-dimensional transportation system, in which a vehicle changes lane or direction by widening or narrowing the width between its left wheels and its corresponding right wheels. In such a transportation system, vehicles diverge from a source lane and... Agent: Baisheng Zou

20070101894 - I-beam trolley: A trolley for transporting objects hanging from an I-beam normally securely grips or latches to the I-beam via a pair of brake pads that are urged upward against the bottom of the beam by a torsion spring. The torsion spring is released by pulling a lever downward. Applying lateral force... Agent: Edward S. Sherman, Esq.

20070095242 - Rail lifter: A rail lifter used to lift a set of assembled railroad tracks above the ballast that has been spread on them includes a front loader or the like having a pair of widely spaced front wheels and a pair of similarly widely spaced rear wheels so that the front loader... Agent: Kenneth W. Iles

20070095243 - Under-way vehicle transfer: This invention is a guided transport vehicle with berth with open side and bottom for a roadway vehicle to be driven along side on a station driveway and obliquely steered into the berth and lifted for transport on the transport vehicle and lowered to another station driveway and obliquely steered... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20070095244 - Cableway system with a safety device: A chairlift has chairs for conveying persons. The chairs may be detachably fastened to a haulage and conveying cable. A closing bar can be moved from a closed position into an open position and is mechanically connected by way of a Bowden cable or the like to a lever which... Agent: Lerner Greenberg Stemer LLP

20070095245 - Magnetic levitation guideway-train system: A magnetic levitation guideway-train system is provided. The levitation power chambers located at a lower portion of the train are fitted in the grooved guideway, and the side permanent magnets of the levitation power chambers and the ferromagnetic balance levitation tracks correspond to one another so as to generate upward... Agent: J. Michael Martinez De Andino, Esq. Hunton & Williams LLP

20070095247 - Guide positioning system for a container transport line: A guide positioning system for a container transport line includes a guide assembly supporting a pair of guide segments extending opposite each other along the container transport line and an actuation system. The guide segments are located in a home position, and the actuation system is set to correspond with... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20070095246 - Portable camera dolly and track: The present invention discloses a portable, collapsible, and width-adjustable dolly and track system for movably supporting a cameraman and a tripod with a camera mounted thereon. The track system comprises a plurality of track sections, straight or curved, interconnected together to form either a straight track or a curved track.... Agent: Edwin Tarver