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  SIDE - Online Information article about SIDE
Aerial Cableways.—The aerial cableway is a development of the ropeway, and is a conveyor capable of hoisting and dumping at any desired point.
Cableways can be worked at a great speed, but a good mean speed would be 500 to 750 ft. for conveying and 200 to 300 ft. for hoisting.
Telpherage.—A telpher ropeway or cableway may be defined as a ropeway or cableway worked and controlled electrically, only a rail rope being required besides the live rail or wire from which the electric current is taken.
encyclopedia.jrank.org /SHA_SIV/SIDE.html   (5308 words)

  
 Cableway Conveyor Sample System
The typical Cableway Conveyor system is much like an “erector set” in which few components can be utilized to form almost any configuration imaginable.
Small radius turns allow the Cableway system to be utilized in tight production areas that might otherwise be inaccessible to floor conveyors or other types of material handling equipment.
Cableway trolleys are fabricated for strength, interchangeability, and economy.
www.roll-away.com /AOC/anatomy_cableway_sample_system.htm   (747 words)

  
 Missle Complex   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A blast door was installed where the cableway from the control center connects with the blast block area.
The electrical cables that lined the sides of the cableway had to be inspected for corrosion and for cracking and deterioration of insulation.
Level 2 was connected to the cableway and personnel tunnel and also to the air intake shaft.
home.teleport.com /~boelling/titanC.html   (1570 words)

  
 Description of cableway
Cableways are used for making discharge measurements or obtaining water samples on rivers that are too deep or swift to wade and where there is no satisfactory bridge available.
A variety of terms are used to refer to cableway components.
The definition and a detailed image of all major cableway components are contained in the table that follows.
wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov /sws/cableways/descr.htm   (1659 words)

  
 Building the Baldwin Reservoir, Cleveland Water-Works   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In particular he has demonstrated that the mobility of the cableway reaches considerably beyond the limits that are ordinarily assigned to it as a construction tool.
Cableway Outfit--An 800-ft. span cableway on 85-ft. timber towers handles excavated material, concrete, reinforcing steel, forms, timber and workmen to or from any point within the rectangle of the reservoir structure.
The cableway lifted the wood panel and shifted its position by means of a four-hook sling.
web.ulib.csuohio.edu /SpecColl/baldwin   (2440 words)

  
 Cableway inspection
Cableway components should also be inspected before each use because damages from natural causes or vandalism may occur between annual inspections, and create a potential hazard (See WRD Memorandum
A visual inspection of cableway components take little time, and is necessary to discover unsafe conditions.
When the tables indicate that the inspection should be stopped it means that the damage represents a potentially catastrophic hazard and the cableway should not be used.
wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov /sws/cableways/inspect.htm   (1033 words)

  
 The Limestone cableway Photo Gallery by Jakob Ehrensvärd at pbase.com
Completing a cableway of that length was a major achievement at that time, and the design was highly modern and innovative, including a fully automated and continuous operation.
The cableway turned out to be a reliable and highly cost efficient solution, which enabled it to be in operation until 1997.
Although the cableway has not been in regular use since 1997, the entire installation is still operational and is tested and lubricated regularly.
www.pbase.com /jakobe/limestone_cableway   (639 words)

  
 SM 445-2-H Chapter 41
Cableways consisting of a main cable, anchors, support structures, cable car, backstays, and other equipment are subject to damage and deterioration from temperature changes, moisture, and vandalism.
Because of this, cableways must be carefully monitored on a continuing basis and all defects corrected promptly to ensure that they are safe for use by USGS personnel.
Cableways must be constructed properly to insure the safety of USGS employees who use them.
www.usgs.gov /usgs-manual/handbook/hb/445-2-h/ch41.html   (1880 words)

  
 Table Mountain and Cableway in Cape Town - South Africa
The cableway doesn't operate when the winds are blowing strongly.
The cableway is obviously more popular, so there are long queues at the ticket counter in high season.
The cableway ride to the top only takes 2 minutes now, and every day about 2500 visitors are taken up to the 1087 m high peak.
www.southafrica-travel.net /westcape/cato_06.htm   (254 words)

  
 Cableway from Wicksteed teenage range of play equipments
This one-way 20m Cableway, with a rubber button safety seat suspended by a plastic coated chain and support mechanism, transports the rider from a launch platform to a buffer stop at the end of the ride.
The steel support structure of Combat Cableway is manufactured for heavy-duty use and has a tensioned steel overhead cable with an accessible cable tensioner for routine maintenance.
Combat Cableway is part of Wicksteed Wildcats range of play and exercise equipment for older children and teenagers.
www.wicksteed.co.uk /playground_equipment/cableway.htm   (314 words)

  
 Table Mountain / South Africa: Cableway cleared by UK court
Cara`s parents had not been satisfied with the ruling of a Cape court last year, that the incident was an accident, insisting that a UK court further investigate the tragic event.
Despite deep dissapointment at the reaction of the cableway company to the incident, no letter was received, the mother has decided not to sue.
John Harrison, a father himself and chief executive of the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company was weary to reply to comments by Cara´s aggrieved mother, yet did voice dissapointment at not being involved in the British investigation of the case.
www.ropeways.net /programm/seite.php?wert=39   (194 words)

  
 Cableway/Chainless Overhead Conveyor Comparison
AOC Cableway Conveyor is a powered, endless cable overhead system, in which two-wheeled trolleys are pulled along an inverted 2” X 2” T-rail by a cable.
Because of its design and construction, AOC Cableway Conveyors are lighter in weight and less expensive than comparable chain conveyors.
The Chainless conveyor may be used for overhead applications requiring a higher capacity then the Cableway system is capable of, it may also be used for in floor or table top convey applications.
www.roll-away.com /AOC/comparison.htm   (202 words)

  
 iafrica.com | news | sa news Labour dept probes cableway incident
Four people were trapped in mid-air and had to be rescued by emergency services personnel from their cable cars when the cableway suddenly shut down.
The owners of the cableway did not answer phone calls and could not be reached for comment.
The cableway was closed for several days before occupational health and safety inspectors declared it safe and it was reopened.
iafrica.com /news/sa/656286.htm   (253 words)

  
 UK court absolves cableway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Cape Town - In a second investigation into the death of a teenager on Table Mountain, a British court found that the cableway company could not be held responsible for the girl's accident.
But BBC News reported that the girl's mother was apparently furious "at the way the cableway company treated the family".
John Harrison, chief executive of the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company, said it was difficult to respond to comments made by a mother who had lost her child.
www.news24.com /News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_1560576,00.html   (374 words)

  
 Deltawerken - The cableway
The cableway had to be able to transport so much stone, that the closure would not last longer than nine or ten weeks.
With a return cableway, the cable is fixed to both sides of the closing gap.
The difference with the cableway of the Grevelingen dam was the weight and the capacity of the cradles.
www.deltawerken.com /The-cableway/419.html   (685 words)

  
 The Cableway Installations Regulations 2004
(3) If the main contractor intends to incorporate into a cableway installation that he is constructing or modifying, a subsystem or safety component that has been designed or constructed using an innovative approach, the main contractor shall notify the Secretary of State of that intention with his application for a stage 1 authorisation.
(5) This regulation does not apply to any cableway installation in respect of which the Executive has served an improvement notice or prohibition notice or both under section 21 or 22, as the case may be, of the 1974 Act or the equivalent provisions in the 1978 Order, and that notice remains in force.
Cableway installations and safety components that were put into service, or placed on the market before 3rd May 2004 are excluded from the Regulations if they comply with all relevant legislative provisions applicable on 3rd May 2000.
www.opsi.gov.uk /si/si2004/20040129.htm   (15274 words)

  
 Aerial Cableway in Antalya
The Tahtali Aerial Cableway is under construction by the Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group, a worldwide leader in the planning and construction of cableways.
With a length of 4,350 meters, the Tahtali Aerial Cableway is the longest aerial cableway throughout Europe – and the second largest worldwide.
Already in September 2006 the Tahtali Aerial Cableway shall commence activity – by then the time consuming work on the supports and ropes shall be completed and the mountain and valley cableway station ready for use.
www.antalya.de /aagb/cableway.htm   (521 words)

  
 Jungfraubahn - Top of Europe - BLM - construction of Lauterbrunnen-Grütschalp aerial cableway
The new facility is planned as a reversible-operation, single-track aerial cableway with a single cabin carrying up to 100 passengers.
A range of development options and cableway systems were examined with geological considerations playing a major role: the unstable slope situation requires an air-borne system.
The transfer of freight from cableway to adhesion railway and vice versa will be carried out using the existing inclined hoist/ forklift facility.
www.jungfraubahn.ch /en/Desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-331/435_read-6160   (1413 words)

  
 Bank-Operated Cableways
The Bank-Operated cableway is designed for use where regular flow measurements need to be made at suitable cross-sections of rivers or canals.
The USGS Tacoma Bank-Operated Cableways are designed as a safe, low- cost, one-man operation cableway to replace manned cable cars or for sites that are not easily gaged by boat or a bridge.
This is a bank-operated cableway with a heavy duty power drive package for the heaviest sounding weights, samplers, or ADCP Tows with rivers up to 800 feet across.
www.rickly.com /sgi/bank_operated_cableways.htm   (539 words)

  
 guichett - 32000L0009 -
Principally, cableway installations are mountain lift systems used in high-altitude tourist resorts and consisting of funicular railways, cable cars, gondolas, chairlifts and drag lifts, but may also consist of cableway installations used in urban transport facilities.
(2) Cableway installations are principally operated in connection with tourism, particularly in mountain areas, which plays an important role in the economy of the regions concerned and is becoming an increasingly important factor in the trade balances of the Member States.
Consequently, although this Directive does not cover the actual operation of cableway installations, the Commission should propose to the Member States a series of recommendations designed to ensure that such installations situated on their territory are operated in such a way as to offer users, operating personnel and third parties a high degree of protection.
europa.eu.int /smartapi/cgi/sga_doc?smartapi!celexapi!prod!CELEXnumdoc&lg=en&numdoc=32000L0009&model=guichett   (11689 words)

  
 IBM Software - CATIA Electrical Cableway Routing 2 (ECR) - Add-on Overview
CATIA Electrical Cableway Routing 2 (ECR), add-on of CATIA Systems Space Reservation 2 (SSR), allows you to define 3D implementation for all existing electrical components defined in the electrical diagrams.
The transition between two cableways is automatically handled by the application.
In addition, you can manage areas in the cableway and utilize knowledgeware rules and criteria to check cable routing reliability, according to user-defined standards and best practices.
www-306.ibm.com /software/applications/plm/catiav5/prods/ecr   (417 words)

  
 Untitled Page
Cableway is a premiere systems integrator to Korean cable and Internet providers, has been the exclusive distributor in Korea for Terayon since 2000, and offers a portfolio of products, including Cisco.
Cableway will sell PerfTech’s Bulletin System, comprised of a suite of in-browser messaging applications and its proprietary hardware platform, as well as the company’s Sentry applications for network security, to major Korean MSOs and ISPs.
Cableway is currently broadening its business to integrate subscriber-based devices and management systems.
www.perftech.com /press/Cableway.html   (512 words)

  
 NIMS System Architecture
A primary NIMS embodiment includes mobile, aerial nodes moving on a cableway infrastructure that may be suspended in three-dimensional environments.
While many infrastructure types are anticipated, the “cableway” infrastructure discussed further below provides an example that meets these requirements, and is compatible with a broad range of environmental science applications.
Energy requirements for mobility are modest and may be made vanishingly small when transport velocity is low and mass-balancing is employed to reduce gravity-work.
research.cens.ucla.edu /portal/page?_pageid=56,57157,56_57158&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL   (2776 words)

  
 African travel and wildlife news for September 1999
To mark the event, the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Co. will be hosting an adrenaline-packed Scream Extreme Event from October 1 to 3, which will include the first-ever bungi jump from a cableway car in the southern hemisphere.
During the weekend, the cableway's lower cable station will be converted into a 'base camp' from which a host of adventure activities will be operated.
While the cableway will be open throughout the weekend, operations will be suspended between 12:00 PM and 2:00 PM on all three days to accommodate the bungi jumping activities.
www.ultimateafrica.com /sept99.htm   (4254 words)

  
 Cableway
Easy adjustment of the cable means our Cableway will also stay in service for years too...
Our Cableway is produced to a very high specification and sold at a very competitive price.
The Cableway is available in 20m and 30m lengths.
www.fawns.co.uk /action/cableway.htm   (229 words)

  
 IBM Software - ENOVIA VPM Electrical Cable Route Management (ECV) - Add-on Overview
It drastically improves the usage of CATIA Electrical Cableway Routing 2 (ECR) for cable routing definition and validation on large electrical 2D and 3D cableway network with full concurent engineering capabilities.
A unique aspect required from shipbuilding and plant design industries, relative to electrical design, is the magnitude of the number of diagrams, electrical components and cableways for these large projects.
Complex cableway networks are optimized to handle the large amount of necessary information when routing cables in shipbuilding and plant design.
www-306.ibm.com /software/applications/plm/enovia/prods/ecv   (635 words)

  
 Cable Improvement Team Rips It Up, Saves 'Uncle Sam' Money
“The cableway ‘Inspection Reports (IR),’” explained Hand, “are de-scoped jobs that are considered ‘growth work’ — unexpected work discovered during the repair process.
They perform inspections on all compartments in 150 zones throughout the ship to determine cableway discrepancies.
Discrepancies are annotated on a three-part Northrop Grumman tag and are hung on the affected cable.
www.military.com /features/0,15240,106841,00.html?ESRC=navynews.RSS   (445 words)

  
 The cableway museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
During the second world war, as there was a shortage of gas and rubber, alternatives were needed for transporting the ore. The solution was a 96 km long cableway.
Construction began in 1942 and the cableway stood ready for use after only one year and five days.
Upstairs in the museum is the Cableway cinema where you can watch a movie about the construction of the cableway.
www.norsjo.se /default.asp?id=5069&ptid=   (114 words)

  
 Table Mountain Aerial Cableway - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Simply present your South African ID on your birthday and get 1 free return cableway ticket.
Directions to the Cableway are clearly signposted - look out for information boards.
The Cableway takes you to the summit in under 10 minutes and the cable car's rotating floor ensure that all passengers get a 360 degree aerial view of the city.
www.tablemountain.net /main/index.asp   (93 words)

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