Branch parking track garage for cableway vehicles

Abstract

A branch parking track garage includes a conveyor movable in two conveying directions and arranged along a first and a second branch parking track between respective transfer points and an end of the corresponding branch parking track. A first and second drive finger, which are spaced apart on the conveyor, are each movable back and forth between a first and a second drive finger position. A distance between the first and the second drive finger on the conveyor is adopted such that the first drive finger is located in a region of the first branch parking track transfer point or in a region of the conveyor facing a feeder track in the transverse direction between the first and the second branch parking track when the second drive finger is located in the region of the end of the second branch parking track, and vice versa.

What is claimed: 
     
         1 . A branch parking track garage for cableway vehicles, comprising:
 a feeder track which is connected to a first branch parking track and a second branch parking track, the first branch parking track and the second branch parking track each terminating at ends remote from the feeder track;   a first branch parking track conveyor on the first branch parking track and the second branch parking track, which extends from the feeder track to a transfer point on the first branch parking track and second branch parking track, and   a second branch parking track conveyor on the first branch parking track and the second branch parking track, which extends from the transfer point to the ends of the first branch parking track and second branch parking track,   wherein the first branch parking track conveyor and the second branch parking track conveyor overlap in a region of a respective transfer point,   a continuous conveyor with a conveyor movable in two conveying directions is arranged in a region of the first branch parking track and the second parking branch parking track, the continuous conveyor having a first conveying section in which the conveyor extends along the first branch parking track between the transfer point of the first branch parking track and the end of the first branch parking track in order to form the second branch parking track conveyor of the first branch parking track, and the continuous conveyor having a second conveying section in which the conveyor extends along the second branch parking track between the transfer point of the second branch parking track and the end of the second branch parking track to form the second branch parking track conveyor of the second branch parking track,   a first drive finger and a second drive finger are arranged on the conveyor of the continuous conveyor at a distance from one another in the direction of the conveyor, the first drive finger and second drive finger are each movable back and forth between a first drive finger position and a second drive finger position, wherein the first and second drive fingers in the second drive finger position project further from the conveyor by an engagement distance in a transverse direction transverse to the conveying direction than in the first drive finger position, and   wherein a distance between the first drive finger and the second drive finger in the conveying direction on the conveyor is adopted such that the first drive finger is located in a region of the transfer point of the first branch parking track or is located in a region of the continuous conveyor facing the feeder track in the transverse direction between the first branch parking track and the second branch parking track when the second drive finger is located in the region of the end of the second branch parking track, and vice versa.   
     
     
         2 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first drive finger or the second drive finger is movable translationally and/or rotationally from the first drive finger position into the second drive finger position, and vice versa. 
     
     
         3 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first drive finger or the second drive finder is movable by a drive finger drive on the conveyor or in the branch parking track garage from the first drive finger position into the second drive finger position, and vice versa. 
     
     
         4 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first drive finger or the second drive finger is designed such that, when the at least one drive finger is in the second drive finger position, a force acting on the at least one drive finger in the direction of the end of the branch parking track can be absorbed by the at least one drive finger in order to transmit a driving force in the direction of the transfer point of the branch parking track, and a force acting on the at least one drive finger in the direction of the transfer point of the branch parking track moves the at least one drive finger from the second drive finger position, preferably translationally and/or rotationally, into the first drive finger position. 
     
     
         5 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 4 , wherein the at least one drive finger is arranged on the conveyor so that it can pivot between the first drive finger position and the second drive finger position, and a pivoting of the at least one drive finger in the direction of the end of the branch parking track is blocked, and pivoting of the at least one drive finger in the direction of the transfer point is enabled. 
     
     
         6 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 4 , wherein a first sliding guide with a first guide surface is arranged in the region of the conveyor, and wherein the first guide surface interacts with the at least one drive finger when the drive finger is located in the region of the first guide surface in order to move the drive finger from the first drive finger position into the second drive finger position when the drive finger is moved with the conveyor past or along the first gate surface. 
     
     
         7 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 4 , wherein a first sliding guide with a first guide surface is arranged in the region of the end of the first branch parking track and/or the second branch parking track, and
 wherein the first guide surface interacts with the at least one drive finger when the at least one drive finger is located in the region of the first guide surface in order to move the at least one drive finger from the first drive finger position into the second drive finger position when the at least one drive finger is moved with the conveyor past or along the first gate surface.   
     
     
         8 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 4 , wherein a second sliding guide with a second guide surface is arranged in the region of the conveyor, and
 wherein the second guide surface interacts with the at least one drive finger when the at least one drive finger is located in the region of the second guide surface in order to move the at least one drive finger from the second drive finger position into the first drive finger position when the at least one drive finger is moved with the conveyor past or along the second gate surface.   
     
     
         9 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 4 , wherein a second sliding guide with a second guide surface is arranged in the region of the conveyor in the region of the end of the first branch parking track and/or the second branch parking track, and
 wherein the second guide surface interacts with the at least one drive finger when the at least one drive finger is located in the region of the second guide surface in order to move the at least one drive finger from the second drive finger position into the first drive finger position when the at least one drive finger is moved with the conveyor past or along the second gate surface.   
     
     
         10 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 1 , wherein a preload element is provided on the conveyor, which automatically holds the first drive finger or the second drive finger in the second drive finger position, and the first drive finger or the second drive finger is movable from the second drive finger position into the first drive finger position by overcoming the effect of the preload element. 
     
     
         11 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 1 , wherein a conveyor drive is provided on the continuous conveyor in order to drive the conveyor in a first conveying direction and in an opposite, second conveying direction. 
     
     
         12 . The branch parking track garage according to  claim 1 , wherein the first branch parking track conveyor of the first branch parking track and/or the first branch parking track conveyor of the second branch parking track is designed as a tire conveyor. 
     
     
         13 . A method for discharging cableway vehicles from a branch parking track garage according to  claim 1 , in which cableway vehicles are lined up next to one another on the first branch parking track and second branch parking track of the branch parking track garage, the method comprising:
 positioning the first drive finger in the second drive finger position in the region of the end of the first branch parking track, whereby the second drive finger is positioned in the region of the transfer point of the second branch parking track or in the region of the continuous conveyor facing the feeder track in a transverse direction transverse to the conveying direction between the first branch parking track and the second branch parking track, and   moving the first drive finger in the second drive finger position with the conveyor in a first conveying direction from the region of the end of the first branch parking track in the direction of the transfer point of the first branch parking track, whereby the first drive finger in the second drive finger position contacts a part of a cableway vehicle that is closest to the end of the first branch parking track, and   via the first drive finger, driving the cableway vehicle and pushing the cableway vehicle in the direction of the transfer point on the first branch parking track, whereby all cableway vehicles on the first branch parking track are pushed in the direction of the transfer point on the first branch parking track, so that each cableway vehicle comes into engagement with the first branch parking track conveyor of the first branch parking track and each cableway vehicle on the first branch parking track is moved from the transfer point on the first branch parking track with the first branch parking track conveyor of the first branch parking track in the direction of the feeder track, and   wherein, by discharging the first branch parking track, the second drive finger is simultaneously positioned in the region of the end of the second branch parking track and is in the second drive finger position or is brought into the second drive finger position, and the second drive finger in the second drive finger position is moved with the conveyor in an opposite second conveying direction from the region of the end of the second branch parking track in the direction of the transfer point of the second branch parking track, whereby the second drive finger in the second drive finger position abuts a part of a cableway vehicle that is closest to the end of the second branch parking track, and the second drive finger drives this cableway vehicle and pushes it in the direction of the transfer point on the second branch parking track, whereby all cableway vehicles on the second branch parking track are pushed in the direction of the transfer point on the second branch parking track, so that each cableway vehicle comes into engagement with the first branch parking track conveyor of the second branch parking track and each cableway vehicle on the second branch parking track is moved from the transfer point on the second branch parking track with the first branch parking track conveyor of the second branch parking track in the direction of the feeder track.   
     
     
         14 . The method for parking cableway vehicles in a branch parking track garage according to  claim 1 , the method comprising:
 positioning the first drive finger in the region of the end of the first branch parking track, whereby the second drive finger is positioned in the region of the transfer point of the second branch parking track, and the second drive finger on the conveyor is brought from the second drive finger position into the first drive finger position or the second drive finger is positioned in the region of the continuous conveyor facing the feeder track in a transverse direction transverse to the conveying direction between the first branch parking track and the second branch parking track, or vice versa, and   moving cableway vehicles with the first branch parking track conveyor of the first branch parking track and/or with the first branch parking track conveyor of the second branch parking track from the feeder track to the transfer point on the first branch parking track and/or the transfer point on the second branch parking track, and from there further onto the first branch parking track and/or the second branch parking track.   
     
     
         15 . The method for parking according to  claim 14 , wherein the cableway vehicles are pushed into the first branch parking track and/or the second branch parking track with the first branch parking track conveyor of the first branch parking track and/or with the first branch parking track conveyor of the second branch parking track. 
     
     
         16 . A cableway having at least one cableway station, a plurality of cableway vehicles, and a branch parking track system according to  claim 1 , for parking at least one of the plurality of cableway vehicles.