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7303169 Rail guided vehicle system  
An overhead running vehicle 10 uses an absolute position sensor or an encoder to detect its own position. The overhead running vehicle 10 then reports its own position and state to a system...
7174836 Station control system for a driverless vehicle  
A station control system for and method of controlling the operation of a driverless vehicle. The system includes a vehicle travel path, a plurality of station tags in readable proximity to the...
7168369 Device for moving a machine  
A device for moving a machine or the like between plural workstations includes: a mechanism for suspending the machine, a guide, a structure for supplying the guide with electrical energy, a...
7117799 Overhead material handling system and track block  
The present invention is directed to a material handling system ( 100 ) and method ( 200 ) for isolating a carrier mechanism ( 110 ) from the system. The system ( 100 ) comprises a track ( 103 )...
7047888 Transit system  
A point-to-point transit system for riders includes an elongate guideway, a plurality of autonomous vehicles disposed in the guideway, a plurality of selectively actuable rider access portals in...
6885911 Track anomaly detection in an automated data storage library  
Track anomalies in an automated storage library are detected by transmitting a track health signal from one portion of the track. The presence of a track anomaly is determined based on any...
6810817 Intelligent transport system  
A public transportation system includes control by highly distributed communications, ultra-light transit vehicles suspended from single or dual rails and powered by electricity. The electric power...
6810306 Data storage library status monitoring  
Library system health is monitored and displayed based on the location of equipment within the library relative to track layout. Robotic devices travel on rails within the data storage library...
6745102 Automatic transporting system and method for operating the same  
An automatic transporting system and a method for operating the same. The automatic transporting system includes a main track, a plurality of transport vehicles, a loading and unloading track, a...
6721627 Track conveyance system  
A conveyance system which performs conveying action operating carrier vehicles, including a loop track, carrier vehicles which run on the track, a station where each carrier vehicle performs...
6698359 Data storage library rail anomaly recovery  
Operations along a track suffering some track anomaly are resumed by bridging the anomaly with a robotic device. The track supports operation of a plurality of robotic devices. The anomaly prevents...
6550391 Method and system for moving cartridges between storage libraries  
A system and a method for moving cartridges between individual cartridge libraries of a multi-library system. The system includes one or more transport robots operating on one or more guide...
6318274 Guideway transit system  
A PRT (personal rapid transit) system, utilizing both course reservation and branch stop technologies and radically solving the various problems experienced in conventional roadway systems,...
6129026 Dual mode cargo transport apparatus and method of using same  
A method and apparatus for handling cargo are disclosed which include a plurality of cargo carriers capable of being operated manually by human operators or remotely by a central controller. The...
6129025 Traffic/transportation system  
In a transportation/logistics system in which a pallet/vehicle with an automobile/container mounted/fixed thereon travels, a normal steering operation is carried out by changing the direction of...
5743962 Product conveying system for coating and treating surfaces  
A work is applied with a solvent-containing thermosetting coating composition to a thickness larger than a limit thickness over which the coating composition on a surface of the work extending in a...
5577593 Carrier conveyor system  
A carrier conveyor system wherein carriers are disengaged from a main conveyor in advance of a work station and re-engaged beyond the work station. A transfer conveyor is positioned such that it...
5575215 Bypass for the cars of a circuit cable railway system  
A bypass for a car of a circuit cable railway system, which is positioned at a turn-about station of the system between the incoming and outgoing lines of at least one revolving conveying cable....
5570637 Garage for a continuous cable railway  
A garage for storing vehicles of a continuous cable railway system. The garage has a plurality of side tracks arranged parallel or substantially parallel to one another to form preferably a...
5551348 Automatic conveyance system  
An automatic conveying system includes a main loop-like conveying track, a plurality of auxiliary loop-like conveying tracks along the main conveying track for selective coupling and de-coupling by...
5297483 Work conveyor  
Left side panels and right side panel are produced in a left side panel production line and a right side panel production line, respectively By vertical lifters, each left side panel and each right...
5284097 Ballast distribution, regulation and reclaiming railroad maintenance device  
A railroad maintenance device distributes, regulates and reclaims ballast along a railway road bed. The device includes one or more hopper cars for transporting and depositing ballast, a regulating...
5108052 Passenger transportation system for self-guided vehicles  
A transportation system for moving passengers comprising a plurality of terminals interconnected by a track network, upon which are supported a plurality of independent and individual self-guided...
4958574 Cable transport system with garaging of carriers  
A cable conveyance having a storage region for garaging the carriers which an be decoupled from the transport cable. The carriers are displaced along a transport rail to the storage regions by a...
4890715 Method of and a device for coding workpiece carriers in a production plant  
Workpiece carriers are fed to successive work stations along conveyor tracks at which stations work operations are performed on individual parts on the carrier and in which a defect signal is...
4791871 Dual-mode transportation system  
A dual-mode transportation system comprises a monotube guideway along which a dual-mode vehicle travels in a first mode of operation, the dual-mode vehicle having a second mode of operation in...
4733616 Track-bound selfpropelled car conveyor  
My conveyor comprises an associated track-bound car including a drive motor supplied with drive current by current-carrying rails, a container, and a cover for the conveyor, as well as a track on...
4726299 Method and apparatus for controlling a vehicle  
A method and apparatus for controlling movement of a vehicle through a network is disclosed. The network has a plurality of stations interconnected by a plurality of path segments. A plurality of...
4685398 Comprehensive unit transportation system  
A comprehensive transportation system with the ability to transport an individual passenger or a unit of cargo directly from a point of origin to a desired destination. A plurality of vehicles are...
4361202 Automated road transportation system  
An automated transportation system for vehicular travel along a roadway is presented. The roadway can be any hard surface that contains an embedded metallic guiderail along its center. A proximity...
4245561 Controllable distributing conveying systems  
A controllable distributing conveying system for transporting people or goods is provided with stations which are arranged on a passive rail network and which include container loading-on...
4208765 Two rail overhead conveyor device  
A two rail overhead conveyor device for meat processing is disclosed comprising an eviscerating platform conveyor, an entrance or feed rail, a lower rail for smaller carcasses and an upper rail for...
4093084 Freight-transportation system with road/rail transshipment  
A rail network serving a given territory has a multiplicity of transfer stations for the transshipment of freight containers between local truck routes and scheduled freight trains, as well as...
4059054 Railroad type switch  
A tracked vehicle switch assembly is operatively connected between a single main track and a pair of diverging tracks for selectively diverting a vehicle moving along the main track to one of the...
4038926 Trolley conveyor system with magnetically actuated reading means  
A conveyor comprising a trolley movable along a track and having at least one elongate member of ferromagnetic material which is settable in a position selected according to a code to convey...
3957322 Control means for selectively shifting storage units  
A series of storage units, such as bookcases, are mounted on a track with controlled power means for moving them to provide a single aisle between any two units. The other units are adjoining each...
3935820 Apparatus for the identification of moving units  
To identify a moving car for switching it from a main line to a spur, a signal indicator on the car tuned to a selected frequency activates a signal pickup apparatus which is located on the main...
3858518 ELEVATED TRANSPORT SYSTEM  
An Arctic Transport system which consists of a monorail track, supported by pylons at relatively short intervals, and a conveyor chain riding on the track. The conveyor chain consists of self...
3848535 RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM  
A rapid transit system having a multiplicity of cars movable independently along a guide complex spaced therealong and many side guide lines leading from each main line or feeder line to the...
3839964 INSTALLATION FOR TRANSPORTATION BY TRAINS MADE OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF CARRIAGES  
An installation for transportation by trains made up of carriages able to move first within a network of their own, which may be a rail system, and then in an ordinary automotive vehicle network....
3831526 VIADUCT FOR SMALL, POWERED, PASSENGER VEHICLES  
The viaduct comprises an enclosed and windowed way or flat road, wide enough for two vehicles abreast, the vehicles each having a forwardly and upwardly extending mast. The way is elevated and is...
3734433 AUTOMATICALLY CONTROLLED TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM  
A transportation system is disclosed in which vehicles travelling along a track or roadway are automatically spaced in response to timing and speed controlling systems so as to assure proper...
3734027 INTRA-FACTORY SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING POWERED AND FREE CONVEYOR SYSTEMS  
An intra-factory system and method adapted generally to conveying non-uniform articles but especially to garment manufacture and to conveying non-uniform, hanger hung garments such as coats,...
3722426 AUTOMATED TRACK-GUIDED MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM WITH ELECTRICAL PULSE PROGRAMMING  
An automated material handling system utilizing a track-guided electrically powered material transporter and a plurality of work stations located in spaced relationship along the track. A common...
3693552 CART STRUCTURE FOR DRAGLINE SYSTEMS  
A cart structure is provided for dragline systems of the sort now commonly employed for material handling in freight terminals and industrial warehouses. The cart structure features an improved...
3690267 PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM  
A public transportation system for use at an airport, shopping center or similar controlled area and which includes planned routes or roadways between various loading stations. Continuously driven...
3592141 CONVEYING DEVICE  
The device is for conveying objects such as semifinished products between different working stations in a transfer line and the personnel at any of the different working stations can direct a...
3541963 TOW TRUCK SWITCHING MEANS  
3509826 CONVEYOR SYSTEM  
3483829 CONTAINER,ROUTING STORAGE,AND TRANSFER SYSTEM  
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