Railways: surface track – Rail joints – Insulated
Patent
1987-03-30
1988-09-27
Basinger, Sherman D.
Railways: surface track
Rail joints
Insulated
E01B 1100
Patent
active
047735902
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for electrically insulating a pair of adjacent rail sections that form separate electrical signal circuits includes a pair of electrically insulating end posts positioned in a space provided between the adjacent rail sections. A metallic separator is disposed between the pair of electrically insulating end posts. Both the electrically insulating end posts and the metallic separator have a cross sectional configuration substantially the same as the cross sectional configuration of the adjacent rail sections. The adjacent rail sections are mechanically connected by a pair of connecting bars that are electrically insulated from and adhesively bonded to the adjacent rail sections. In another embodiment guard rail sections are insulated from each other by a pair of electrically insulating end posts positioned in a space provided between the individual guard rail sections. A metallic separator is disposed between the pair of electrically insulating end posts positioned in the space provided between the individual guard rail sections. Metallic spacers separate the adjacent rail sections from the adjacent guard rail sections. The adjacent rail sections and the adjacent guard rail sections are mechanically connected by a pair of connecting bars that are each electrically insulated from and adhesively bonded to the adjacent rails sections and adjacent guard rail sections.
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Collins W. Barry
Dash Wayne D.
Walter Robert O.
Basinger Sherman D.
Price, Jr,. Stanley J.
Sotelo Jesus D.
TASA Corporation
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