DE722206C - Track board for displaying the operating status at a train station - Google Patents

Description

Track board for displaying the operating status at a train station For the visual display of the operating status to the signalman will be multiple Track boards. used. These track boards. show a schematic afterimage of FIG Track system in which the tracks are usually kept free by the glow of lamps is shown. If a track is occupied, the associated lamp goes out. Man has also gone over to this several times, yellow or green lights when the tracks are clear to light up while the track strips located on the board light up red when the track is occupied. So give these track boards to your keeper anytime a picture of the operational status of its tracks, d. b. about whether the tracks are occupied or are free.

In the case of large interlockings, it is now difficult for the attendant to to overlook at any time without further ado whether or not his route can be set not. It is well known that by setting a route, certain other so-called hostile routes are excluded. Is the number of existing Routes are very large, so there are of course all the more routes to be set excluded from a route. If the guard now places about five non-mutually exclusive Routes at the same time by z. B. five train journeys in a large station are supposed to take place, it is extremely difficult for him to overlook which ones Routes are now excluded or which journeys he now also has can make. The attendant will be inclined to determine by trying the levers whether the levers can be thrown. This procedure is of course time consuming. Around There is a track table to make it easier for the keeper to see the light across the driveways placed on the all Journeys are recorded. These The table is optically illuminated. Each route has a field which is in the basic position is enlightened. If the journey is not possible because an enemy journey has been stopped the lamp goes out, which darkens the field. In this optical Table the keeper can now overlook at any time which journeys he can still make, namely, all the journeys whose lights are on. This procedure is now insofar awkward when a particularly extensive table is needed, furthermore because the display is in tabular form. According to the invention, the track board is now exploited even for the display of the exclusions from the fact that all track sections are so dependent on each other that when setting a permissible route the corresponding track sections are displayed (e.g. green) in this way, that it is aware of free and unused track sections (e.g. knows), of occupied track sections (e.g. red) and unoccupied track sections the road settings are not permitted (e.g. dark).

The subject matter of the invention is explained in the figures, for example.

Fig. I shows a simple track plan in which a two-track route opens into three station tracks I, 2 and 3. Entrances take place on signal A I;% 2, The exits on signal B 2 and C. The entrances can be in track i and track 3, the exits from platform 2 and platform 3 take place.

Fig. 2 shows the associated track boards in their basic position. All Rail strips may be lit because all the rails are free. Will now how 3 shows that route A i, / 2 is set after track i, so may this route light up green on the track board (shown hatched on the drawing). The tracks that cannot be used become dark, while the ones that are still possible Exits C and B remain illuminated. This effect becomes even more evident when z. B. the trip A 2 to track 3 is set, as shown in Fig. Q. shows. Except there This trip no further trips are possible, all of the trip will be track strip that has not been touched is dark. If the train is on track on route A 2 3 retracted, this is indicated by red (cross-hatched), as shown in Fig. 5 shows. In this state both. the journey A i to track i as well as the exit C from track 2. Is z. B. the exit C set what by is displayed in green (hatched), one recognizes without a wide, -es in Fig.5 that now only the entrance A i to track i is possible. All non-passable track sections get dark.

The execution of the different colored lighting of the track strips can in a known manner, for. B. be done in that below the strip of track A white, green and red lamp are installed alternately. However is also. any other known shape can be used for illuminating the track board.

In the example given, a distinction is made between the following states: i. Route free and not set: white. 2nd route set: green (hatched). 3rd track occupied: red (cross-hatched). q .. route setting not possible, however unoccupied: dark.

It is of course easily possible to view the individual advertisements swap, instead of using white green, yellow or similar lamps. The dressed Execution is only intended to serve as an example of how to make a track board without significant Can take advantage of additional effort to display whether the setting of a route is possible or not.

Claims (1)

PATENT CLAIM: Track board for displaying the operating status on a Railway station, characterized in that all track sections are interdependent are that when setting a permissible route, the respective associated track sections be brought to the display (e.g. green) in such a way that they differ from free and unadjusted Track sections - (e.g. white), of occupied track sections (e.g. red) and of uri-occupied track sections are not allowed via the route settings are (e.g. dark), differentiate.