摘要 |
A transportation installation having a lower substantially horizontal conveyor and a guide rail extending parallel to and spaced above the conveyor and a car transportable by the conveyor having a shoe frictionally engageable with the conveyor at its bottom, a guide wheel vertically movably mounted on its upper top end and means for moving the guide wheel upwardly into engagement with the guiderail during movement of the car by the conveyor. The installation includes at least one station to which the car may be switched from the conveyor, each of the stations including a carrier rail having an upstream portion parallel to and spaced below the guide rail, an intermediate portion which is spaced laterally and upwardly from the guide rail, a downstream portion which is parallel to and spaced below the guide rail, and connector portions extending convergently laterally outwardly and upwardly from the upstream and downstream portions to the upstream and downstream ends of the intermediate portions.
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