Railways – Terminals and stations – Platforms
Patent
1997-04-17
1998-12-08
Morano, S. Joseph
Railways
Terminals and stations
Platforms
14 71, B61B 102
Patent
active
058455809
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for dynamically filling a gap between a side of a railway train car and an adjacent edge of a station or loading platform for preventing accident or injury to passengers while boarding or alighting from the train. A plurality of flexible, flat planar sheet-like members project outwardly from a vertical platform edge surface that is confrontingly opposed to the side of a railway train car located adjacent to the platform. The extension of the projecting members from the platform is such that as an approaching train traveling along a track moves into proximity with the platform, the train contacts at least the free ends of the projecting members whereby the members are thereby resiliently deflected to assume a generally bent contour in the direction of train movement and thereby substantially fill the gap between the platform edge and the side of the train.
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Chernack Milton P.
Muller Richard J.
Morano S. Joseph
Muller Richard J.
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