Pivoted Patents (Class 246/203R)
  • Patent number: 5601259
    Abstract: A two-way safety trip is placed at selected locations along a railway track to demarcate a safety zone within which the travel of a railway vehicle is stopped upon entering the zone and is permitted to continue upon leaving the zone, the safety trip including a bracket for attachment to the track and a trip member selectively mounted upon the bracket in alternate mounting orientations for serving at either boundary of the safety zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: Boda Industries, Inc.
    Inventor: Anthony J. DiChiara
  • Patent number: 4261265
    Abstract: A motor vehicle adapted to be used on tracks, especially for the public local passenger traffic, with a steerable vehicle axle and with at least one non-steerable vehicle axle and with track-determining cross-guide rollers arranged on both sides of the vehicle which are provided at least within the area of the steerable wheels and are supported near the end points of mounting arms that are relatively fixed; a force-measuring device for determining the cross-guide force is provided in the mounting or bearing support of at least one of the cross-guide rollers of each vehicle wheel while a brake pressure medium valve is adapted to be influenced by the force-measuring device in such a manner that a brake deceleration is automatically initiated when the vehicle exceeds a threshold value of the cross-guide force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1981
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Helmut Bertelsbeck