Railways: surface track – Roadbed – Street crossing
Patent
1991-05-10
1993-01-26
Huppert, Michael S.
Railways: surface track
Roadbed
Street crossing
404 34, 238 7, E01C 904
Patent
active
051816571
ABSTRACT:
A grade crossing system for extending a roadway across a railroad track comprises elongate elastomeric pad units which abut each side of the rails in the track but do not extend across the entire crossing. The elastomeric pad units rest on the ties that carry the rails and have planar top surfaces that are coplanar with the tops of the rails. The remainder of the crossing is filled with non-elastomeric panels that also rest on the ties and have planar top surfaces that are coplanar with the top surface of the rails. The abutting edges of the pad units and the panels overlap such that the panels hold the pad units down against the ties and urge them against the sidewalls of the rail flanges. Thus, mechanical fasteners are not required to hold the crossing elements in place.
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Huppert Michael S.
Katz Robert S.
OMNI Rubber Products, Inc.
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