Abstract: A railway guide wheel apparatus attaches to a frame of a road vehicle to allow the road vehicle to travel along rails. The apparatus has a side shift capability where railway wheels of the apparatus may be lowered to engage rails even when the vehicle is offset sideways from the rails. An automatic centering arrangement will center the vehicle relative to the rails after the railway wheels have engaged the rails. Spring cells are used as a suspension to absorb vibration from the railway wheels contacting the rails and to maintain the railway wheels in contact with the rails.

Abstract: Character recognition apparatus for the recognition of stylized E13B characters are provided wherein the siganls resulting from the reading of a character by a reading head 17 are sampled to be treated by two different asemblies (EB1 and EB2) of operator-generator blocks of logic signals. The discrimination of the signals delivered by each of these assemblies is realized, in a respective one of the two assemblies (RK1 and RK2) by identification elements (EK1, EK2, . . . , EK14) under the control of two groups of validation circuits (CV1 and CV2). These identification elements (EK1, EK2, . . . , EK14) are each associated with a respective one of the characters of a group.