Electricity: transmission to vehicles – Conductors – Third rail
Patent
1979-02-16
1980-12-09
Schacher, Richard A.
Electricity: transmission to vehicles
Conductors
Third rail
B60M 104
Patent
active
042380103
ABSTRACT:
A bus bar unit on which a current collecting unit rides comprises a body having therein a groove and thereon a hinged lid portion which closes the groove when pressed against the body proper, and a current carrying naked cable received in the groove. The current collecting unit comprises a shoe, a horizontal roller for continuously opening the lid portion to allow the shoe to be in sliding contact with the naked cable when moved in a direction, and a vertical roller for pressing the opened lid portion against the body proper to close the groove when moved in the direction. The shoe has a tapered section having an inclined side upon which a back surface of the lid portion bears to cause raising of the lid portion from the body proper when the shoe moves in the direction under a state in which the lid portion is disengaged from the horizontal roller.
REFERENCES:
patent: 508083 (1893-11-01), Brain
patent: 2316064 (1943-04-01), Hans
Nissan Motor Company Limited
Schacher Richard A,.
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