Railway switches and signals – Electric automatic highway signals – mine doors – and gates – Normally open track circuit
Patent
1979-07-30
1981-12-29
Salce, Patrick R.
Railway switches and signals
Electric automatic highway signals, mine doors, and gates
Normally open track circuit
246125, B61L 2928
Patent
active
043078605
ABSTRACT:
A train detection system for protecting a railroad highway crossing having an a.c. transmitter center-feeding voltage signals into the track rails and having a receiver including at least a pair of coils located on opposite sides of the crossing and disposed adjacent the track rails for defining an island zone and for inductively picking up a.c. signals when the island zone is unoccupied and determines the time of arrival of a train at the crossing.
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patent: 3333096 (1967-07-01), Ohman et al.
patent: 3734434 (1973-05-01), Smith
patent: 3951364 (1976-04-01), Sibley
patent: 3977634 (1976-08-01), Smith
American Standard Inc.
Eisenzopf Reinhard J.
Salce Patrick R.
Sotak J. B.
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