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Jean Victor Peloquin

Aidan John Bradley

Transit systems for travel overhead of streets, having: at least a first vehicle and a second vehicle; a main track on which the vehicles travel, the main track having a suspended overhead rail over the streets by a support structure, such that the vehicles travel at an elevated level overhead of street level; docking stations for the vehicles to lower to the street level for loading and/or unloading passengers and/or cargo; a two-position switch at each docking station, having cables enabling vertical movement of the vehicle, and a replacement track; wherein the two-position switch allows for docking of the first vehicle while the second vehicle passes the docked first vehicle, by enabling lowering of the first vehicle from the elevated level to the street level, and the replacement track providing a track portion for the second vehicle on which to pass the first vehicle.

Suspended public transit system

A high-speed mass transport system having a monorail track disposed along a travel path and a monorail car with a driving unit suspended from the monorail track and a commuter car selectively attached to the driving unit. The high-speed mass transport system having also having an omnidirectional wheel transporter being adapted to selectively raise and lower to engage the commuter car, thus allowing the commuter car to detach from and reattach to the driving unit.

High-speed mass transport system

Provided herein are transit systems for travel overhead of streets, having: at least a first vehicle and a second vehicle; a main track on which the vehicles travel, the main track having a suspended overhead rail over the streets by a support structure, such that the vehicles travel at an elevated level overhead of street level; docking stations for the vehicles to lower to the street level for loading and/or unloading passengers and/or cargo; a two-position switch at each docking station, having cables enabling vertical movement of the vehicle, and a replacement track; wherein the two-position switch allows for docking of the first vehicle while the second vehicle passes the docked first vehicle, by enabling lowering of the first vehicle from the elevated level to the street level, and the replacement track providing a track portion for the second vehicle on which to pass the first vehicle.

Disclosed is an apparatus and method for generating energy, and in particular electrical energy, using fluid supported bodies, each disposed in one of a plurality of chambers filled with a fluid. The fluid, which issues from a fluid source, has a density which is greater than the body so that the bodies are all buoyant, and therefore float, in the fluid. A rotatable shaft is supported above the chambers, with each of said bodies being coupled to the shaft through a clutch mechanism for driving the shaft in rotation. An electrical energy-generating device may be coupled to the shaft for generating electrical energy when the shaft rotates. Conduits interconnect the chambers with the fluid source, and fluid level sensors and valve means communicating with the conduit means and the chambers for regulating ingress and egress of fluid from the chambers. The fluid in each of the chambers is selectively evacuated whenever the body in the respective chamber has been lifted to a preselected height within the chamber. The rate of evacuation of the fluid is greater than the rate of descent of the body so that after the fluid has been evacuated from the chamber, the body experiences &ldquo;controlled&rdquo; free fall and in so doing it turns the rotatable shaft. The series of bodies falling in the chambers is timed so that at any time, there is at least one body experiencing &ldquo;controlled&rdquo; free fall in free space.

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Anaheim, CA, United States of America

Jean Victor Peloquin