Railways – Car-carried propulsion system – Electric
Patent
1998-05-14
1999-11-02
Le, Mark T.
Railways
Car-carried propulsion system
Electric
104118, 105141, 352243, G03B 1700
Patent
active
059749784
ABSTRACT:
A lightweight, remote-controlled, self-propelled equipment support and transport system is stabilized against unwanted angular deviation in each of three perpendicular axes and adapted for motion at high speed along a simple tubular monorail. The system can be quickly and efficiently ground-mounted on stands, suspended horizontally from brackets or from a variety of overhead supports, or vertically mounted alongside a mast or wall. The system includes an elongated drive car running on and partly surrounding a rail, and an equipment support associated with the drive car and configured so that the supported equipment is transversely and longitudinally spaced and balanced about a point just below the center of the rail. The equipment support is mounted in angular isolation relative to the drive car by a system of damped pivots about pitch and yaw axes. The drive car includes a steering adjustment adapted to counteract slight variations in wheel alignment that might tend to drive the transport off-level when in motion along the rail.
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Brown Gerrett W.
Keller David
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