Continuous transport system - has cabins transferred between platforms on main track and station tracks

摘要

The system has one or more endless tracks on which speed is constant at all points, and one or more station tracks along which speed varies. Part of each station track is parallel to the main track. There are one or more vehicles whose cabins can travel at constant speed while attached to one point of the main track, or at a speed momentarily reduced when attached to a point on the station track. Each vehicle comprises a platform and a cain, the platform always remaining on the same track while the cabin can be transferred to a similar platform on another track. A station consists of one or more endless tracks (4-9), and there are a series of platforms travelling with the tracks. Thus where tracks (1, 4-9) run side by side platforms on the two are opposite each other to allow easy cabin transfer.