Rail device for the vehicles of a conveyor system, especially of a closed circuit rope conveyor

Abstract

Abstract For the vehicles which are not required and ejected from circulation of a conveyor system, stop points 6 are formed on a horizontal track section 2 by means of stops 54 which cooperate with the travelling mechanisms 20, the said stop points 6 each having a vehicle sensor 62 and a disconnector. Each vehicle sensor is connected to the stop and to a disconnector of the stop point preceding in the conveying direction, the conveying direction being defined by a vehicle conveyor extending along the track section. By means of the disconnector, the entraining connection between the conveyor and a conveyed vehicle is then disconnected if the stop point of the respective vehicle sensor is occupied by a vehicle. The spaces between the individual stop points along the track section are selected such that the vehicles of adjacent stop points do not collide with one another. As the vehicles are removed at the end of the track section, the stops of all the occupied stop points are deactivated and the vehicles are conveyed to the respective next free stop point or they are parked at the stop points which are nearest to this end. <IMAGE>

Inventors

• 👤 Fritz Feuz
• 👤 Ferdinand Hora
• 👤 Fritz Linder

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