US 12,071,168 B2
Cable car vertical loop transport system
James K. Bunch, Arvada, CO (US); Jimmy Fletcher, Boulder, CO (US); and Perry A. Shea, Tenino, WA (US)
Assigned to VERTICAL LOOP ENTERPRISES, LLC, Tenino, WA (US)
Filed by VERTICAL LOOP ENTERPRISES, LLC, Tenino, WA (US)
Filed on Sep. 10, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/566,623.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/729,267, filed on Sep. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2020/0079401 A1, Mar. 12, 2020
Int. Cl. B61B 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC B61B 7/04 (2013.01) 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A transportation system comprising:
a vertical loop supported by a support structure;
a power supply for moving the vertical loop;
at least one gondola cabin supported by the vertical loop; and
a first end station comprising a passenger loading platform at a first elevation and configured to allow a passenger to enter the at least one gondola cabin, the first end station further comprising a passenger unloading platform at a second elevation and configured to allow a passenger to exit the at least one gondola cabin, the first elevation being different from the second elevation, wherein the first end station is further configured such that the at least one gondola cabin enters the first end station the second elevation and exits the first end station at the first elevation, the vertical loop operates in a first direction at the first elevation, and the vertical loop operates in a second direction at the second elevation.