Patents Assigned to Compagnie du Chemin de fer Montreux-Oberland Bernois SA
  • Bogie for variable rail gauge and changing station of the rail gauge
    Patent number: 8590459
    Abstract: The bogie of variable rail gauge comprises two lateral carrier mountings (1;2) with two wheels (1?, 1?, 2?, 2?) independent of each others, which lean one against the other, forming between them an articulation (3) allowing a variation of the rail bogie in sliding between the traverses forming part of the two lateral carrier mountings (1;2), entirely, allowing anytime a relative rotation or tipping, respectively, between the traverses (2;3) in the vertical planes of the wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Compagnie du Chemin de fer Montreux-Oberland Bernois SA
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Forclaz, Cedric Giller