Battery powered vehicle systems
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1. Apparatus constituting a public service vehicle transport system comprising:
- a vehicle movable along a road,batteries for powering the vehicle,an overhead power conductor for supplying electric current to recharge the batteries,a pantograph attached to the vehicle which is raisable to engage the overhead power conductor to enable the vehicle to receive the electric current,a pylon, off but adjacent to a side of the road, the pylon including,laterally extending arms at or adjacent a top of the pylon, the arms carrying the overhead power conductor, said arms normally overhanging the side of the road, andmeans for swinging the arms to overhang the road so that the power conductor may be engaged by the pantograph.
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Abstract
A public service vehicle transport system in which a vehicle powered by sodium/sulphur batteries is recharged through a pantograph at stations along its route from a pylon having arms which carry power conductors. The arms are carried by a rotable part of the pylon so as to be refracted over the pavement except when approach of the vehicle is sensed, whereupon the arms are automatically swung round over the road to enable recharging to take place.
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1. Apparatus constituting a public service vehicle transport system comprising:
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a vehicle movable along a road, batteries for powering the vehicle, an overhead power conductor for supplying electric current to recharge the batteries, a pantograph attached to the vehicle which is raisable to engage the overhead power conductor to enable the vehicle to receive the electric current, a pylon, off but adjacent to a side of the road, the pylon including, laterally extending arms at or adjacent a top of the pylon, the arms carrying the overhead power conductor, said arms normally overhanging the side of the road, and means for swinging the arms to overhang the road so that the power conductor may be engaged by the pantograph. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. Apparatus for recharging the batteries of a battery powered public service vehicle, said apparatus comprising a pylon off but adjacent a side of the road, said pylon having at or adjacent its top, laterally extending arms carrying a power conductor, which arms normally overhang the side of the road and can be swung round to overhang the road for engagement of the power conductor by a pantograph provided on the vehicle to receive electric current for recharging the vehicle batteries.
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