Title: Automatic opening and closing cabin for ropeways

Abstract: This cabin gondola or car for ropeway, intended for transporting passengers between two stations on a rope driving a plurality of disconnectable cabins or cars, has an automatic door opening and closing mechanism and the two doors are slidably mounted on the same side of the two-shell cabin housing for closing corresponding apertures somewhat spaced so as to leave a solid wall section therebetween, the mechanism actuating said doors causing same to be superposed to each other against said solid wall portion, a pair of bench-forming seats being disposed transversely and back-to-back, very close to each other, in the tranverse space extending normally to said solid wall portion.

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Inventors: Tauzin, Francis (Veyrins, FR)

Application Number: 494181
Filing Date: 1974-08-02
Publication_date: 1976-01-13
Assignee: Pomagalski S.A. (Grenoble, FR); Sigma Plastique (Veyrins, FR)
Primary Class(es): 105/149.1 105/343, 105/345
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

2949864	Aug, 1960	Rubin	105/150.
3094079	Jun, 1963	Greil	105/329.
3353503	Nov, 1967	Pettit	105/329.
3556016	Jan, 1971	Ponagalski et al.	105/329.
3606843	Sep, 1971	Adams et al.	105/397.

Other Refs:
Primary Examiner: Love, John J.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Linton; Ulle C.