Device for detecting defective wheels on rail cars

Railway switches and signals – Cab signal or train control – Train defect

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73146, 324642, B61K 300, E01C 2300, G01R 2704

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049365290

ABSTRACT:
Flanged steel wheels remain in service on rail cars, locomotives, and other heavy rail guided machinery unitl they no longer maintain minimum specified rim or flange profile dimensions. If the rim or flange profile of the wheel cannot be returned to minimum specifications by surface machining operations, the wheel is condemned as being defective and is removed from service and scrapped. It is desirable to use an automated inspection device to determine if a wheel is approaching this condemning limit of profile wear. The invention automatically detects profile defects upon passing the wheel between rail mounted antennae which form a resonator cavity and transmit microwave radiation. When influenced by a wheel possessing condemnable rim thickness, flange thickness, or flange height profiles, the antennae cause a D.C. voltage to propagate at a microwave detector inserted into an interconnected comparison bridge network. A controller monitors the detector and activates an alarm at a remote location when a voltage is detected. The alarm notifies operating personnel of a defective wheel and sequentially logs the date and time of the alarm occurrence, the axle and wheel position of the defective wheel, and the specific profile defect on the wheel.

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