Short Sectional Rail Closure Patents (Class 246/129)
  • Patent number: 4713653
    Abstract: Apparatus for warning workers on electrified railroad tracks that the third rail is live having visual and/or aural alarms, sensing electrodes or contactors for deriving power for activating alarms from the third rail, and circuits for providing visual and/or aural alarms indicating that the contactors have not made proper contact with the rails to assure the workers that the warning apparatus is properly operating as a high voltage protector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1987
    Assignee: Julian A. McDermott Corp.
    Inventor: Julian A. McDermott