Types & Parts Of Ropeway

Ropeway is a mode of transport that has a capacity to bear heavy weights of passengers and provides them a safe and comfortable ride. However, it can also used to carry materials, goods and components. It is engineered of stainless steel overhead cables attached to the poles from which ropeway carriers are supported. Ropeway is of two types; bio cable and mono cable ropeway. A bi-cable tower consist of  saddles and roller battery, while a mono-cable tower has only roller battery to support the hauling-carrying rope.

The capacity of Ropeway can be measured by the factors like load, it can carry per hour, speed of the carriers, number of passengers.

TYPES OF ROPEWAYS:-
1) Bicable (2S) & Tricable (3S) Gondola lifts
2) AERIAL TRAMWAYS
3) Inclined elevators
4) Fixed Grip Chairlifts.

Parts of Ropeway :-

Rope: A rope is made up of several strands of steel wires spun together. The rope or cable of a ropeway is used to fulfils two functions that are:-
It used to carry the suspended load and pull it along. Depending upon the design of a cable it can be used do one or both of these functions.

Ropeway carrier:  It consists of a carriage and a container . The carriage used for this  purpose is made up of a box head and a hanger. The box head  is attached  to the container with the hauling rope by means of a clip or wheels that run over the supporting rope in a bi-cable system and/or over the station. 

Drive station: Drive station consist of ropeways in the drive system, it includes a motor drive mechanism and a driving sheave. It contain some parts to maintain the tension of the rope.

Return station: Return station is at the end of the line  which contains a return sheave, from which the  carriers move back towards the drive station.

Sheaves: Sheaves are large diameter wheel which  found at  the both ends of the line and the stations. Their is hauling rope which passes around them. A driving sheave is run either by an engine or an electric motor connected to the sheave with a suitable drive mechanism.