Binary track safety traverse system reconfigurable to provide safe trajectories over a wide range of inclinations

• US 9,045,146 B2
• Filed: 08/13/2013
• Issued: 06/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Buttercup Business, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Darren W. Hreniuk
• Inventors: Hreniuk, Darren W.
• Primary Examiner(s): MCCARRY JR, ROBERT J
• Application Number:
  US13/965,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20140007789A1
• Time in Patent Office: 658 Days
• Field of Search: 104/112, 104/115, 104/117, 104/117.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: B61B 12/005 Rescue devices for passengers safety devices for preventing accidents to passengers when entering or leaving railway vehicles B61K13/04; emergency escape closures in vehicle bottom in general B60J9/02
• CPC Class Codes: B61B 7/00 Rope railway systems with suspended flexible tracks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 30/00 Transportation of goods or passengers via railways, e.g. energy recovery or reducing air resistance

Abstract

The present invention is related to the field of mechanical engineering and describes an automatically adjustable system of traverse rails with multiple characteristics that extend the useful life of the sustain by a minimum factor of four while providing redundant security backup to the rails allowing human passengers to move from one place to another in and easy and safe manner with a minimum of noise and vibration while providing the owner of the system benefits of lower maintenance cost and less exposure to financial risk. Also the system can be installed in a multitude of natural places without the need to cut or damage the environment. Using the same components this system offers other configuration options to increase the possibilities of installing a system with desirable characteristics over a greater number of inclinations. Combining the various components starting with a smooth rail as in FIG. 1 with the self-equalizing system FIG. 3 for a maximum conservation of energy to maximum breaking rail with the skeleton braid in FIG. 2 with the maximum braking security system of in FIG. 4.

Claims

1. A gravity binary rail security traverse system, which comprises:

(a) an upper flexible rail having a pair of ends, each end affixed to a first upper base and to an upper second base, there being an inclination therebetween;

(b) a lower flexible rail parallel to said upper flexible rail and having a pair of ends, each end affixed to a first lower base and to a second lower base, there being an inclination therebetween;

(c) an upper pulley carried by said upper flexible rail;

(d) an lower pulley carried by said lower flexible rail;

(e) a vehicle unit affixed to said pulley and movable by gravity between said bases; and

(f) said upper and lower pulleys being tethered together.

2. The binary rail security traverse system of claim 1, wherein at least one of said rails comprises fiber reinforced, extruded plastic.

3. The binary rail security traverse system of claim 2, wherein said fiber reinforced, extruded plastic comprises a an advanced, low modulus of elasticity, low cold flow fiber rope core covered and bonded to an outer extruded plastic jacket.

4. The binary rail security traverse system of claim 3, wherein said bonded outer extruded plastic jacket is covered with a second braided fiber layer bonded under a second outer extruded plastic layer being sufficiently thin to wear and expose the braid.

5. The binary rail security traverse system of claim 4, wherein said core or said braid is made from ultra high molecular weight polyethylene or a liquid crystal polymer.

6. The binary rail security traverse system of claim 1, wherein at least one of said rails comprises steel.

7. The binary rail security traverse system of claim 1, wherein one of more of said rails also is tethered to a base.

8. The binary rail security traverse system of claim 1, wherein both of said bases is the same base.