Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B60—VEHICLES IN GENERAL
  • B60D—VEHICLE CONNECTIONS
  • B60D5/00—Gangways for coupled vehicles, e.g. of concertina type
  • B60D5/003—Bellows for interconnecting vehicle parts
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
  • B61D3/00—Wagons or vans
  • B61D3/16—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads
  • B61D3/18—Wagons or vans adapted for carrying special loads for vehicles
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B61—RAILWAYS
  • B61D—BODY DETAILS OR KINDS OF RAILWAY VEHICLES
  • B61D39/00—Wagon or like covers; Tarpaulins; Movable or foldable roofs

Definitions

• Freight car units with height-adjustable roofs are primarily known for the transport of passenger cars; they are usually two-story with a fixed or height-adjustable intermediate floor and can either be coupled together in pairs according to DE-A 40 20 020 or connected to each other according to FR-A 1 503 791 via buffers and normal railway couplings.
• the freight wagon units which are known from DE-A 40 20 020 and are coupled to one another in pairs, are connected to one another by an elastic element, for example a bellows; however, a weather-protected transition between adjacent pairs of such freight car units is not provided.
• the invention has for its object to design a flexible transition between two freight car units with height-adjustable roofs in such a way that it easily adapts to all, even different, positions of adjacent roofs and offers adequate weather protection in every position.
• the transition has a transition roof and two side walls
• each of the two side walls is divided into a side wall lower part and a side wall upper part
• the two side wall lower parts are connected to side wall areas of the two freight car units, and
• the transition roof is supported on at least one flexible support element which connects the height-adjustable roofs to one another.
• the division of the side walls of the transition into lower and upper parts has the advantage that the side wall lower parts, which remain permanently connected to the side wall areas of the neighboring freight car units, contribute to stabilizing the transition without these lower parts themselves having to be particularly strong.
• the transition roof is not connected to the complete side walls of the transition but only to the upper side walls and is therefore particularly adaptable to different height positions of the roofs of the neighboring freight car units.
• the subdivision of the side walls of the transition into fixed lower parts and, together with the transition roof, height-adjustable upper parts also has the advantage that the supporting element, which connects the height-adjustable roofs of adjacent freight car units with one another, does not have to carry a particularly large load and therefore saves space can be designed.
• the supporting element is preferably a leaf spring which is pivotable on the two height-adjustable roofs and is also longitudinally displaceable to a limited extent on at least one of them.
• the leaf spring can be one or more layers; in general, a single-layer, and thus particularly space-saving and light design of the leaf spring is sufficient.
• the support element formed by a leaf spring is preferably on at least one of the adjacent height-adjustable Ren roofs in two horizontal guides arranged one behind the other.
• the leaf spring is held in these horizontal guides like a clamped carrier, so that it can be relatively slim at given vertical loads.
• at least one of the horizontal guides is connected to the associated roof by a spring element.
• the leaf spring serving as a supporting element must be longitudinally displaceable as easily as possible in its horizontal guides and, moreover, must also have sufficient scope for transverse displacements in any case if the horizontal guide itself is not pivotably and transversely displaceable in such a way that it can adapt to angular movements that occur between adjacent freight car units when cornering.
• a stop is expediently attached to the leaf spring between the two horizontal guides, which are arranged on one of the height-adjustable roofs, which limits their longitudinal displacement relative to this roof.
• a rope can be provided which connects the two adjacent height-adjustable roofs and is held under tension by a spring element.
• a support element is known from DE-A 28 54 416 mentioned; there it is used to support a bellows between carriage units of an articulated bus with a roof that cannot be adjusted in height.
• the support element there is particularly good weather protection, even against side incidence Driving rain when the side wall upper parts overlap the side wall lower parts at least in the lowered state of the height-adjustable roofs.
• the degree of overlap can be chosen so that the side walls are still tight even in the highest possible position of the height-adjustable roofs or only open one slot, but daylight can still fall in but still offers adequate protection against driving rain.
• FIG. 2 shows a longitudinal section like FIG. 1 with an uneven height adjustment of the roofs of the two freight wagon units
• FIG. 3 shows the horizontal section III - III in FIG. 1,
• FIG. 4 shows a longitudinal section similar to FIG. 1 in a modified embodiment of the invention
• FIG. 5 shows a longitudinal section similar to FIG. 1 in a further embodiment of the invention.
• transition 2 which has a transition roof 3 and two vertical side walls 4.
• the transition roof 3 and the side walls 4 are preferably, as shown, formed by a bellows, which can be formed in the usual way from rubber or rubber-like material with textile reinforcement. Corresponding bellows can also be used the. However, simplified embodiments are also possible in which the transition roof 3 and the side walls 4 are formed by tarpaulins.
• the side walls 4 are divided in a horizontal plane, so that each of them has a lower side wall part 6 and an upper side wall part 8.
• the side wall lower parts 6 are fixedly connected to side wall areas 7 and 7 and to underframes of the two freight car units 1 and I 1 .
• the transition roof 3 is permanently connected to a height-adjustable roof 9 or 9 1 of the two freight car units 1 and 1 '.
• the side wall upper parts 8 are fastened to the transition roof 3 or, preferably, are formed in one piece with it, and thus if they are firmly connected to the two adjacent height-adjustable roofs 9 and 9 '.
• the side wall upper parts 8 overlap the side wall lower parts 6 according to FIG. 1 by an amount 5. If one of the roofs 9, 9' is moved upwards without the other or rushes ahead during the adjustment, it fits the transition roof 3 together with the upper side wall parts 8 the height difference between the roofs 9 and 9 'without further ado; since the lower edges of the upper side wall parts 8 are inclined, as indicated in FIG. 2 by a dash-dotted line.
• the side wall upper parts 8 take on a parallelogram-like shape.
• the transition roof 3 lies on a support element 10 which connects adjacent roof ends 11 and 11 1 of the freight wagon units 1 and 1 'to one another.
• the support member 10 is In the embodiment according to FIGS. 1 to 3 and also in the variant shown in FIG. 4, a leaf spring, which is arranged at the two roof ends 11 and 11 'in a pair one behind the other.
• Horizontal guides 13 and 14 or 13 and 14 ' is longitudinally displaceable and also guided to be displaceable to a limited extent.
• the longitudinal displaceability of the support element with respect to the roof end 11 is limited by a stop 12 attached to the support element 10 between the two horizontal guides 13 and 14.
• This stop 10 preferably has, as shown, the shape of a wheel or wheel pair which can be rotated about a vertical axis and which can roll on transverse displacements in each case on one of the horizontal guides 13 and 14, as a result of which frictional resistance to such displacements is largely avoided.
• each of the horizontal guides 13 and 14 and 13 * and 14 is formed by a pair of horizontal guide plates 17, which are supported by a spring element 18, which is supported directly or indirectly on the associated roof end 11 or 11 ', against that of support element 10 formed by a single leaf spring can be pressed.
• the force of the spring elements 18 is dimensioned such that the support element 10 cannot rattle in the horizontal guides 13 and 14 and 13 • and 14 r , but is not appreciably hampered by friction in the longitudinal and transverse displacements required especially when cornering.
• the guide plates 17 are preferably coated with a material such as polytetrafluoroethylene, which has only a low coefficient of friction compared to the material of the support element 10, preferably spring steel.
• the support element 10 is a rope, preferably made of steel, which is guided under the transition roof 3 in a protective tube 19, with one end attached to the roof end 9 by means of an abutment 20, in an abutment 20 ⁇ is guided at the other end of the roof 9 and is held taut by a compression spring 21 supported on this abutment 20 '.

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