Railroad grade crossing platform and an end capping device there

Details Railroad grade crossing platform and an end capping device there Railroad grade crossing platform and an end capping device there

1977-08-01

1979-12-04

Blix, Trygve M.

Railways: surface track

Roadbed

Street crossing

238 6, 238 9, E01B 2100

Patent

active

041767896

ABSTRACT:
The exposed ends of railroad grade crossing platforms are protectively capped with elongate devices which provide ramps sloping downwardly and away from the surface of the platforms along the ends of the grade crossing. The ramps deflect air hoses, chains, etc. which occasionally hang downwardly from railroad cars and locomotives passing over the grade crossing, and, thus, prevent the free ends of such items from being caught on or damaged by the otherwise exposed ends of the grade crossing platforms. Ramp-supporting members extend in mutually spaced relationship from the underside of the ramp of each device so that in end view, the device has the shape of essentially a right triangle, whose hypotenuse is on the ramp surface and whose legs are partially formed by the respective supporting members and partially by the ramp. The opposite legs of the triangular shape are preferably unequal in length so that the cap devices can accommodate two different platform heights. The cap devices are secured in place in the crossing by spikes driven through the sloping ramp surfaces thereof and into the ties in the bed of the railroad track.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1055442 (1913-03-01), Browne
patent: 1279062 (1918-09-01), Winter
patent: 1658444 (1928-02-01), King
patent: 2839249 (1958-06-01), Curtis
patent: 3487998 (1970-01-01), Farmer
Railway Track and Structures, May 1976, pp. 34 & 35.

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