Railways – Traction – Longitudinal rotary shafts
Patent
1988-06-29
1990-05-08
Focarino, Margaret A.
Railways
Traction
Longitudinal rotary shafts
104246, B61B 1312
Patent
active
049228315
ABSTRACT:
A lightweight car-on-track system having a pair of spaced-apart rails and an associated rotatable drive tube with a captive carrier movable along the rails and having a drive wheel in driving engagement with the rotatable drive tube. The drive wheel is spring-loaded against the rotatable drive tube and the capture of the carrier to the rails results in a controlled drive force achieved regardless of the weight of the carrier or of a load supported thereon. The system is made up of a selected number of modular units, each having adjustably mounted frame members supporting opposite ends of a rail section and a drive tube section. Adjustable mounting of frame members to an alignment plate assures alignment between rail and drive tube sections when assembling the system. A transfer device is utilized for transferring a carrier from the end of one track section to the spaced-apart end of another track section with the transfer device being oscillatable about a pivot axis. A drive tube for each track section has a generally frusto-conical end extending beyond an end thereof which coact with the drive wheel of a carrier to impart motion of a carrier onto and off the transfer device.
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Scheel Russell H.
Ziegenfus Barry L.
Focarino Margaret A.
Heico Inc.
Pape Joseph D.
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