Method for moving a railway switch and equipment for implementin

Details Method for moving a railway switch and equipment for implementin Method for moving a railway switch and equipment for implementin

1978-06-06

1979-11-20

Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.

Railway switches and signals

Switches

Sliding

104130, 246415R, 246443, E01B 704

Patent

active

041748204

ABSTRACT:
This invention relates to an improvement in an apparatus and method for moving a railway switch composed of travel rail sections of a main track which are pivoted by positioning elements to rail sections of a branch-off track and locked by closing elements in a particular position with respect to a switch plate extending across the switch, the improvement comprising two positioning sleds, a profiled guide rail supporting each of said sleds, one of said guide rails being outside of and parallel to said travel rail sections of said main track, and the other of said guide rails being outside of and parallel to said rail sections of said branch-off track, and a cross-piece on each positioning sled, each of said cross-pieces having a compression roller mounted thereon and adapted to engage the inside of a rail head of an adjacent travel rail.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1825415 (1931-09-01), Overmiller
patent: 2641690 (1953-06-01), McLeish
patent: 3093090 (1963-06-01), Rosenbaum

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