Railways – Magnetically suspended car – Propulsion means employed to suspend car
Patent
1991-09-03
1992-10-20
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Railways
Magnetically suspended car
Propulsion means employed to suspend car
1041301, B60L 1304, E01B 2512
Patent
active
051560925
ABSTRACT:
The invention concerns a dual rail track permanent way for a wheel/rail system and a magnetic rail system whose carriages are of a height which lies within the clearance profile of track, the guiding magnets are situated inside the span of the carrier magnets, next to each rail of the rail track a magnetic rail runs outside the clearance profile of rail track and opening points are provided at which one system can be sideways displaced in relation to the other system and a section of the magnetic rail which passes through the clearance profile of rail track is designed as a gate which can be swung out of the said clearance profile and the operating equipment of the wheel/rail system is fitted outside the clearance profile of the magnetic track system.
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Oberleitner Robert J.
Rutherford Kevin D.
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