From the telpher are suspended carriers which can be adapted to any kind of material.
The speed of thetelpher may be readily regulated by the introduction of a resistance between any section of the line and the supply of electricity.
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.
The telpher carries a small trolley sheave or bow which serves to collect the current from a trolley wire stretched a little above the rail.
The telpher itself consists of a light two-wheeled truck, carrying the driving motors, which, to avoid gearing or other complicated mechanism, are usually coupled directly to the axles of the telpher.
Thus the telpher is a self-propelled electric carrier running on a mono-rail, which, according to the conditions, may be a steel rail or a steel cable.
Telpher line, or Telpher road, an electric line or road over which vehicles for carrying loads are moved by electric engines actuated by a current conveyed by the line.
Moved by these considerations, I wrote asking Professor Ayrton to co-operate in the development of my scheme, and suggesting that he should join with me in taking out my first Telpher patent.
I have been encouraged to choose Telpherage as the subject of my address by the fact that a public exhibition of a telpher line, with trains running on it, will be made this afternoon for the first time.
This is quite a common arrangement for smaller telphers, but in the larger ones a man travels with the telpher and load, controlling the train just as in the case of the ordinary trolley system.
The current comes from a distant source, and the telpher is so arranged that it travels automatically when the current is turned on, stopping when the current is cut off.
The use of the bucket and telpher also eliminated most of the objectionable noise incident to the transfer of spoil from tunnel cars to ordinary wagons at the shaft sites.
One telpher was taken from each of the Intermediate Shafts to operate at each of the West Shafts.
Thus, upon approaching a curve, the telpher automatically slows down, runs slowly around the curve until it passes the resistance section, and is then automatically accelerated.
The telpher line is very useful (for transporting material considerable distances) in districts where it would not pay to construct a surface railway.
The telpher usually has two motors, one placed on each side of a two-wheeled carriage so as to balance; but sometimes only a single motor is employed.
The carriers are controlled on steep grades by an electric braking device, which acts automatically, its effect varying with the speed at which the telpher runs.
Just above the running cable is the "trolley" cable, from which the telpher picks up current through a hinged arm, after the manner of an electric tram.
The telpher has much the same advantages over the steam-worked ropeway that an electric tram has over one moved by an endless cable.
By opening a switch the current is cut off from the corresponding section, and the telpher will stop when it reaches this point.
In order to stop the telpher at any desired point, the trolley wire is divided into a number of sections, each controlled by a switch conveniently located.
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