Abstract: This invention relates to a portable, lightweight, non-conductive, and non-flammable hard lightweight cover that is placed over a third rail and used to protect workers from being electrocuted while working near live powered third rail system. Further, the third rail railway cover board may be highly visible and made to work in all weather conditions. Because of the simplicity of installation, no special power expert is needed to install the third rail railway cover board which will save a great deal of time and safety. The third rail railway cover board may include one or more of the following features: lightweight, non-conductive, and flame retardant; placed over high voltage third rail; weather and rain resistant; high-visibility; stackable; locking mechanism from one cover to an adjacent cover; LED light holder; contoured shape to fit all US third rail systems; and water shed design.

Abstract: A rail system for a cabin of the vehicle comprises a rail with a main extension direction, a fixing element which can be fixed at various positions of the rail to hold a mounting element on the rail, and a cover device for covering the rail. The cover device has several planar cover elements arranged in continuous series extending along the rail, wherein the cover elements are each mounted so as to be pivotable between a closed state in which the respective cover element lies on the rail and an open state in which the respective cover element is removed from the rail. The fixing element has an engagement element which is configured, on displacement of the fixing element along the rail, to reach below a cover element and move the cover element from the closed state to the open state.

Abstract: A cover assembly includes a support bracket from which a cover board is selectively suspended. The support bracket is itself mounted to a third rail or contact rail by a clip which cooperates with the bracket. The cover board is held in place on the bracket by an upper flange which has a tapered or V-shaped front wall, as well as a tapered bottom wall. A flag holder, which can be selectively attached to the bracket, includes a first section with an engaging member that cooperates with an engaging member located on the support bracket, a center section including a through bore for holding a flagstaff of a safety flag and a second end section. The second end section is adapted to attach the flag holder to a different type of cover board support bracket.

Abstract: A simulation system for a current collecting surface of a C-shaped contact rail includes a double-headed rail and a limiting plate. A current collecting end surface of the double-headed rail has a same current collection area as an actual C-shaped contact rail. The limiting plate matches the inner contour of the C-shaped contact rail. A constructed test line can simulate the current collecting status of the C-shaped contact rail. The limiting plate and the existing double-headed rail are combined, and compared with reproduction of the C-shaped contact rail, the manufacturing cycle is short, the costs are low, and it is applicable to the test line.

Abstract: A guide track includes a guide rail having a guide groove opened upward in which guide wheels are inserted, and formed with guide surfaces for causing each of the guide wheels to roll at both sides of a traveling course in a width direction; conductor rails that are placed at both sides of an outside of the traveling course in the width direction with respect to the guide groove to perform contact electricity supply by pressing a power collection shoe of a power collector of a track-based vehicle; a first insulator that supports the conductor rails with respect to the guide rail; and insulation plates that are provided at both sides of the conductor rail in the width direction, and are provided in parallel to the conductor rail and in parallel to a pressing direction of the power collection shoe.

Abstract: A guide track (3A) includes a guide rail (31) having a guide groove (31a) opened upward in which the pair of guide wheels (23) inserted, and is formed with a pair of guide surfaces (31b) for causing each of the pair of guide wheels (23) to roll at both sides of the traveling course in a width direction; conductor rails (32) that are placed at both sides of the outside of the traveling course in the width direction with respect to the guide groove (31a) to perform contact electricity supply by pressing a power collection shoe (43) of a power collector (4) of the track-based vehicle; a first insulator (33) that is formed of an insulation material and supports the conductor rails (32) with respect to the guide rail; and insulation plates (34) serving as insulation materials that are provided at both sides of the conductor rail (32) in the width direction, and are provided in parallel to the conductor rail (32) and in parallel to a pressing direction of the power collection shoe (43) so as to prevent a short circ

Abstract: An assembly through which at least one bus bar extends includes bus bar-mounting openings. Insulators are positioned at each of the insulator-mounting openings. Each insulator includes a mounting member having contoured edges. A bus bar holding opening extends through the mounting member. Mounting openings are provided on the mounting member. The mounting openings being dimensioned to receive mounting hardware therein. The mounting openings are offset from the geometrical centerline of the bus-bar holding opening by more than the radius of the mounting hardware. The mounting hardware of adjacent insulators may be thereby interleaved to allow for close placement of the insulators while maintaining required spacing to provide proper electrical insulation.

Abstract: A third rail power insulating system, comprising an insulator assembly and a cover board assembly. The insulator assembly comprises pedestal supporting insulators that are mounted onto a contact rail assembly. The insulator assembly further comprises an insulator anchor bolt assembly, a base shim plate, a bolt assembly, a lubricating shim, and retaining clips. The cover board assembly is also mounted onto the contact rail assembly and it comprises a support bracket assembly, retaining clips, a side cover board, and a top cover board. The support bracket assembly has a general C-shape and comprises a lateral wall, a top wall, a base wall, and a protrusion. The side cover board comprises an elongated plate having at least one hole, and the top cover board comprises an elongated plate having sufficient curvature to contour the support bracket assembly.

Abstract: The inventive power supply system (1) comprises a ground placed power supply device (2) provided with at least one linear supply wire (7) connected to a voltage supply, a rail (6) comprising at least one zero reset conductor strip (8) and at least one protective profile in a flat L-shaped position profile masking the conductor wire. The system also comprises an on-board current sensing device (3) comprising at least one movable sensing subassembly (38) comprising a power sliding contactor (41) and a zero volts sliding contactor (42) which are electrically connected to the vehicle load circuits and used for slidingly contacting the supply wire and the zero reset conductor strip. The invention is useful for manufacturers of public transport vehicles and the lines therefor.

Abstract: The device for capturing electrical energy having a capturing plough-type element (10), an arm for holding the capturing plough-type element on the frame of the vehicle, a mechanism for lifting up the plough-type element and the way for electrical connection to the supply circuit of a vehicle. The plough-type element is electrically insulated in relation to the ground and the trackway. One part of the plough-type element separates two profiled part holders (23, 24) which are arranged beside each other in another opposite manner and are supported a support. The conducting elements of the lower end of the plough-type element are maintained in electrical contact, sliding along polar parts born by each part holder. Along the entire length of each part holder (23, 24), each part holder is mounted in an elastically recoiling manner such that it moves towards its adjacent opposite number with the aid of an elastic mechanism.

Abstract: An induction line cover includes a cylinder-shaped section into which an induction line can be fitted, plate-shaped sections continuously connected outwardly from a pair of ends created by cutting a slit longitudinally in the cylinder-shaped section at a circumferential position of the cylinder-shaped section, and engaging sections formed adjacent outer faces of the plate-shaped sections and being engageable toward the movement track. A cover joining member for connecting the induction line cover has a receiving section which can receive the engaging sections, and is configured to be accommodated within the extent of the outer diameter of the cylinder-shaped section when the engaging sections are engaged toward the movement track. By this, connection between induction line covers can be performed firmly with stability using the cover joining member, and sufficient clearance can be secured between the cover joining member and a pickup coil.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the fabrication of a longitudinal rail for supplying electrical power to a mobile, the rail including a mounting body for mounting the rail on a support and a wear plate which is worn by the mobile. The mounting body has a rigid base and a head divided into two halves which are prestressed in elastic flexing between rims of the wear plate. Applications include the production of electrical power supply rails for rail vehicles or materials handling plant.

Abstract: A cable protector that includes a main portion for holding a first cable having a relatively large diameter size and an auxiliary portion formed adjacently to the main portion for holding a plurality of second cables each having a relatively small diameter size side by side in the vertical direction. The auxiliary portion is composed of a plurality of hold stays each having an L-shaped section and formed at proper intervals on the outer surface of the side wall forming the main portion in such a manner that the hold stays extend along the longitudinal direction of the protector main body. In the auxiliary portion, on the outer surface of the side wall, a plurality of removal preventive projections are arranged at a cross-stitch stage pitch between the plurality of hold stays. One second cable can be held in a three-point-support manner or a in a bolt manner, which can prevent the only one second cable from trashing in the protector main body due to vibrations.

Abstract: An electrical rail conductor assemblage for an insulated electrification system, including an elongate electrically-conducting rail having a longitudinal groove for receiving a cooperable collector shoe and for guiding it for travel along the rail. The rail has opposite wall portions which border the groove. The wall portions have thin wall sections with rounded longitudinal edges that constitute the mouth of the groove of the rail. The rail is covered by an essentially tubular, insulating, hollow, resilient and rigid cover member enveloping essentially all portions of the rail except for the mouth of the groove thereof. The cover member has a longitudinal cut which registers with the mouth of this groove, and curved, longitudinally-extending snap-on retainer portions that extend along the cut and are adapted to snap over the rounded longitudinal edges of the rail. These retainer portions extend in a circumferential direction through substantially a full semi-circle.

Abstract: A current contact line arrangement includes a plurality of energy and control current contact lines for engagement with current collectors of a movable energy consumer such as a crane, trolley carriage or the like which is not intended to pass beyond a predetermined point and is characterized by the fact that at least one of the energy or control current contact lines (5) is covered by an insulator (9) which is longer than the brake path of the movable energy consumer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a ground-level multipole current supply system for track-guidable, rubber-tired, electrically propulsive vehicles, wherein extruded aluminum profiles are provided within an electrically insulating duct-like shielding for each pole. To permit the current supply system to be kept small and easily installable the shielding is constructed as a self-supporting extruded profile which is fastened, suspended with ducts open downwards, on support arms. The substantially triangular live rails are retained screwlessly by sliding axially behind beads in the shielding. A vee-shaped arrangement of the contact tracks of the two live rails and of the two contact pieces on the current collector side exerts a self-centering influence upon the current collector head, so that the latter can be of simple construction and only little play need be provided for relative movements between current collector head and live rails.

Abstract: A conveyor device for conveying articles along a predetermined path of travel having a running rail on opposite sides of the path of travel. A bus bar is below said running rails. A self-propelled carrier has driving wheels to roll on the running rails. The wheels are rotated by a single electric motor which receives power from the bus bar. Cover members overhang the running rails and wheels during operation, and interlock with the rail support member so that the cover may be readily removed by disengaging the interlock.

Abstract: There is disclosed an elongate housing member of insulating material defining a downwardly open interior space for reception of a conductor strip so as to form an electric current conductor rail with the strip, the housing member being provided at each of two opposite sides thereof with a respective longitudinally extending rib. The ribs are arranged and constructed in such a manner that the housing member can be connected to a further such housing member at substantially the same height. One of the ribs is provided at its underside with a groove and the other rib with an upwardly projecting bead, the groove and bead having substantially the same cross-sectional shape.

Abstract: An overhead plural conductor trolley rail and flying pickup for supplying electrical power to a vehicle includes a plastic extrusion fastened to an overhead structure housing parallel flat conductors, the exposed underside of each of the conductors being engaged by shoes carried on vehicle supported trolley units. At one end of the rail a guide structure for the trolley includes a central, side skirted or inverted channel shaped portion, flanked at either end by oppositely extending side-skirted ramps each inclined upwardly from the central portion. The approach ramp also diverges horizontally outwardly of the rail support. To accurately engage the trolley carried shoes with the rails, the operator need only insure that the trolley enters the divergent portion of the guide at its widest open end.

Abstract: An elongated rail conductor has a rail formed with a groove for a current take-off, and a synthetic plastic housing which surrounds the rail but leaves access to the groove. The edge faces bounding the groove are inwardly offset from the corresponding edges of the casing, so that the moving current take-off cannot contact and wear the edges of the casing.

Abstract: There is disclosed a metallic conductor strip of approximately Z-shaped cross-section which serves as current conductor in a housing. The strip in cross-section has a limb with a flat contact surface and a limb with an inwardly curved contact surface. The strip is retained in the housing, with which it forms a current conductor rail, by two ribs protruding into an interior space of the housing and by two outwardly bent edge portions of the strip which are engaged in corresponding grooves in the housing. The possibility exists of including a copper conductor member in the housing to cope with higher current intensities.

Abstract: An improved monorail guideway assembly including unencumbered running surfaces that are supported by a truss. Electrical bus bars are attached to the underside of the running surfaces and a protective skirt is attached to the edges of the running surfaces along their entire length. The skirt is bent so as to form a smoothly curved shoulder that shields the bus bars and guideway surface from snow or rain.

Abstract: A bracket for supporting a cover structure for the contact rail of electric railroads which is made of plastic materials and in which the supporting bracket for the cover structure is so formed that it has a substantially uniform cross sectional thickness and forms a channel opening away from the rail which facilitates manufacture and reduces weight.

Abstract: A trolley rail section is formed from a tubular housing that has a front side provided with laterally spaced slots extending lengthwise of the rail, and a partition wall extending across the inside of the housing and closing the inner sides of the slots, the side walls of which are provided with grooves receiving electrical conductor bars. The partition wall and the back of the housing have opposed openings therethrough, with each pair of openings communicating with a different one of the slots. Disposed in each partition wall opening and straddling the adjoining conductor bar is a U-shape metal clip with inturned free front edges overlapping the front of the bar. Disposed in the clip behind the bar is a metal plate that is pressed against the bar by set screws threaded in the back of the clip. A rigid metal conductor connection extends loosely through an opening in the back of the clip and is rigidly secured to the plate and provided with an abutment spaced rearwardly from the clip.

Abstract: A rail vehicle is disclosed for use on an elevated electric rail system having a lower rail below the vehicle and an upper rail above the vehicle. The vehicle includes a pair of lower wheels having independently rotatable flanges rollably carrying a vehicle cab along the lower rail and an upper wheel having independently rotatable flanges rollably engaging the upper rail. Electric motors, energized through contacts carried on the vehicle by an electric circuit associated with the upper rail, are drivingly connected through drive belts to the respective lower wheel to propel the vehicle along the rail system. The vehicle also includes a clamping rail brake carried by a vehicle which is engagable on the lower rail, and a vertically and laterally extendable servo system secured to the vehicle and carrying the upper wheel.

Abstract: A trolley busway housing has a generally T-shaped top portion which stiffens the housing to provide improved bending resistance and also provides a continuous top flange on which hangers can be clamped.

Abstract: A rigid power conductor to be suspended from an overhead structure or ceiling by means of insulators for the supply of electric energy to electric power driven vehicles on rails. The conductor is a conductor wire held between two side-by-side I-beams urged together so as to form a continuous clamp for the wire.The wire has lateral grooves whereas the I-beams define a conforming downwardly opening slot with projections engaging the grooves in the wire.The joints connecting the successive I-beams are longitudinally displaced, and an expansion joint is disclosed which permits relative displacement of the successive lengths of conductor.There is also disclosed an apparatus for the installation of the conductor wire and various devices for interconnecting the I-beams.

Abstract: A protective housing is provided for electrical rails and the like, namely, reaction (secondary) rails and slide pick-up lines for operating electro linear propulsion motors for monorail vehicles. The new and improved housing is of simplified construction and enables comparatively large protective plate members to be assembled in the form of a tight housing on elevated monorail structures. The protective plates may be readily removed and slidingly displaced to expose the normally protected electrical components for maintenance, replacement or repair.

Abstract: The power line comprises a conducting section enclosed in an electrically insulating casing open on one side. The section and the casing are hung by claws. At least one claw is designed to block the conducting section and the casing. Expansion joints are designed at some intervals, and end elements prevent any access to the conducting section which is electrically supplied by junction units included in the end elements connecting two adjacent segments.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is an improved trolley truck traveling on a monorail having spaced horizontal surfaces, in which a frame of the truck supports at least one supporting or traction wheel on the upper surface of the rail and a counterwheel on the lower surface of the rail, the separation of the wheels being greater than the vertical spacing of the horizontal rail surfaces to accommodate rapid and easy placement of the truck upon and/or removal of the truck from the monorail.