Brakes – Vehicle – Railway
Patent
1997-08-15
1999-07-27
Butler, Douglas C.
Brakes
Vehicle
Railway
188 41, 188107, B61K 702
Patent
active
059274441
ABSTRACT:
A brake for a track-operated vehicle employing the use of friction between at least one brake pad to be mounted on the vehicle and at least one frictional strip for attached to a lateral side of the track. The brake pad is to be attached to the vehicle by a device for urging the brake pad toward a lateral side of the track to which a frictional strip has been attached to such an extent that when the vehicle is maintained in alignment with the track, the inner surface of said brake pad will attain a position, in the absence of the frictional strip, that is intermediate between the lateral side of the track and the position where the outer side of the frictional strip would be located were such first frictional strip installed. Similarly, an auxiliary brake has a bar that fits across the track and two brake pads attached to the bar in the same manner as brake pads are attached to the vehicle.
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Butler Douglas C.
Fehr Thompson E.
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