Abstract: A cargo restraint system for the bed of a truck comprising primary cargo securing element and cargo securing members clampingly engageable with the primary cargo securing element. A bed liner may also be included in the combination. Abutment dual tie down members are also readily utilizeable with the system to provide improved cargo restraint. An elongated stop block may be releasably assembled into brackets clampingly engaged for adjustable movement on a pair of primary securing elements as part of a multi-faceted, but easily disassembled system for cargo restraint for use in trucks, vans, station wagons and the like.

Abstract: A lead or head end rail car includes crew living and working accommodations. Controls for the propulsion car, such as a locomotive, and other trailing cars are included in the head end car. Crashworthiness is built into the head end car to provide safety for the engineer and crew in case of accident.

Abstract: In an automated transport system which includes a rail, a plurality of free traveling trolleys riding on the rail, and chain driven pushers for propelling the trolleys along the rail, a bracket is provided on the chain for each pusher which allows a trolley located far in advance of the pusher to move into engagement with the pusher and thereafter limits the distance it can move ahead of the pusher, as for example when the trolley rides on a downwardly sloping portion of the rail. The brackets are made of plastic and are releasably connectable with the chain, with a snap fit action, so that they can be easily added to or removed from the chain as required to adapt the chain to a given application.

Abstract: In a railway truck, a primary suspension system comprising a pair of elastomeric half-ring members having high wear flexible woven material bonded thereto and on opposite sides thereof; the woven material having high flexibility and wear resistance perpendicular to the plane of the material and rigid within the plane of the material.

Abstract: Transportation apparatus comprises a guideway and at least one vehicle on the guideway. The vehicle has an integral load-carrying compartment. The guideway includes a divergent junction and selectively operable switches to direct the vehicle to follow either the left hand or right hand path out of the junction. The vehicle has a bottom support adjacent the bottom of the load-carrying compartment and at both sides of the vehicle for engagement with lower support rails on the guideway. Cantilever supports engage upper guide surfaces provided on the guideway. The cantilever supports are duplicated on both sides of the vehicle and include one and the same upper follower, for engagement with an upper guide surface on the guideway, common to both of the cantilever supports so that the vehicle may be supported in cantilever fashion from either side on a single lower support rail and a single upper guide surface.

Abstract: To enable a passenger to ride a "roller coaster" in a standing position, the inventive device includes a seat placed between the legs of the passenger, a back member with a headrest incorporated in it, and two harnesses which provide retention of the passenger from above as well as lateral retention of his head and good front and lateral retention of his body. One of the harnesses is movable and can be swung upwardly to enable easy access to the subject device by the passenger and to enable a ventral bar to be brought into tight contact with the passenger's abdomen before being locked shut in that position. Because the sliding carriage which bears the two harnesses, the back member and the seat are displaceable and lockable along the columns which have their base fixed to the chassis of the train, the present invention can accommodate passengers of different heights and sizes and reliably retain such passengers regardless of their orientation in space during the operation of the associated roller coaster.

Abstract: A preferred embodiment for a detechable gondola lift is disclosed in which carraiges on a closed circuit are detached from the circuit upon entering an end station and coupled to a semi-circular section before being recoupled onto the circuit upon exiting the end station. The semi-circular section has a drive wheel with a first drive mechanism on its periphery for driving the carriages over the semi-circular section. The first drive mechanism is located at regular intervals and driven at a predetermined first speed to impose a regular flow rate to the carriages leaving the semi-circular section and a regular distribution of carriages on the circuit. The semi-circular section also includes a second drive mechanism for imparting a slightly different speed to the carriages from that imposed by the drive wheel. One of the drive means has priority to impose a predetermined flow rate to the carriages leaving the semi-circular section.

Abstract: A trackless, center-pivot underground vehicle is described, which has a tractor section, which is driven by an electric motor, which is powered via a sliding contact line, a current collector device, which is movable along the contact line line, and a supply cable, which is electrically and mechanically connected to the current collector device and adapted to be unwound from a reel against a restoring force. An improved mobility of the vehicle and a large width range throughout the range of travel are ensured by the combination of the following features:a. the supply cable is connected to the current collector device by a slip ring member, which is rotatable about a vertical axle;b. a helically winding cable reel is mounted on the tractor section and rotatable about a vertical axle, which is provided with a slip ring member;c. a guide arm is coaxially arranged with respect to the cable reel and adapted to be pivotally movable by hydraulic means; andd.

Abstract: A trolleybus current collector system which enables trolleybuses to pass or overtake one another while still remaining on the same one way supply line. The trolleybus current collector system described herein comprises a trolley pole, which is attached movably with its bottom part to the trolleybus, while its top part is connected to the outer end, with respect to the direction of driving, of an insulating carrier, onto which there are arranged current collector slide blocks. The pole is connected to the carrier by means of a compression body. The outer current collector slide block is mounted rigidly to the carrier. The inner current collector slide block is mounted movably in longitudinal direction with respect to the carrier. To each current collector slide block there is mounted, by means of respective internally diagonal deflectors, a current-carrying bridge. The compression body is fastened to pole parallel to the supply line.

Abstract: A reel for electric fence wire is formed from electrically insulative material and is supported for rotation between electrically conductive arms of a grounding stake, the reel containing an energizer which is grounded through an electrically conductive shaft which extends axially through one end of the reel to provide a journal bearing for the reel, the shaft being in electrical continuity with the associated arm of the grounding stake, and extending axially into engagement with a grounding electrode of the energizer, thus eliminating a requirement for slip rings.

Abstract: A pair of angle iron chocks are disposed with one flange of each chock in confronting relation with a like flange on the other chock on a common supporting surface and opposing sides of a horizontally disposed cylinder. A length of flexible strapping is threaded at its respective end portions through a plurality of outstanding loops transversely secured to the surfaces of each chock in a manner to maintain the chocks in close proximity with respect to the adjacent arcuate surface of the cylinder.

Abstract: A device adapted to accomodate at least one wheel of a vehicle, particularly for use and installation in car-carriers, which includes an elongated side rail constituting a vehicle loading level, and a carrying trolley slidably arranged on the elongated side rail. The carrying trolley has pivotally mounted thereon a pair of elongated sustaining arms, which normally extend at a slight convergence to, but nearly parallel with one another in an operative position thereof, and are spaced from one another by a predetermined distance, but are pivotably foldable through respective angles of about 90.degree., so as to extend in parallel with the side rail.

Abstract: In an overhead electric traction system a simple and inexpensive mid-point anchor comprises a mast and, mounted on the upper part of the mast, a cantilever structure comprising a pair of rigid elongate members which lie in a common plane and extended transversely with respect to and lie spaced apart in a direction lengthwise of the track, and which at their ends nearer the track are connected to the mast by a third transversely extending elongate member inclined at an acute angle to the common plane. The ends of the members remote from the track are connected to opposite ends of a rigid bar which extends lengthwise of the track, which is pivotally connected to the mast about a vertical axis and which, at each of its end portions, is connected to the mast by a flexible tie. In the event of an unbalanced load on the catenary, pivotal movement of the cantilever structure about the vertical axis is prevented by one of the flexible ties and the out of balance load is transferred to the mast as a torsional load.