EP2504489A1 - Device for securing railway lines - Google Patents
Device for securing railway linesInfo
- Publication number
- EP2504489A1 EP2504489A1 EP10833625A EP10833625A EP2504489A1 EP 2504489 A1 EP2504489 A1 EP 2504489A1 EP 10833625 A EP10833625 A EP 10833625A EP 10833625 A EP10833625 A EP 10833625A EP 2504489 A1 EP2504489 A1 EP 2504489A1
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- EP
- European Patent Office
- Prior art keywords
- elevations
- compliance
- rails
- tracks
- conductor rails
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
- A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
- A01M—CATCHING, TRAPPING OR SCARING OF ANIMALS; APPARATUS FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF NOXIOUS ANIMALS OR NOXIOUS PLANTS
- A01M29/00—Scaring or repelling devices, e.g. bird-scaring apparatus
- A01M29/30—Scaring or repelling devices, e.g. bird-scaring apparatus preventing or obstructing access or passage, e.g. by means of barriers, spikes, cords, obstacles or sprinkled water
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
- E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
- E01B17/00—Cattle guards connected to the permanent way
Definitions
- This invention contains a device to secure tracks.
- the device can be used between the tracks on which track running vehicles such as trains, city light rails, trams, etc., traffic, which is in compliance with the introduction of patent claim!
- the device has been developed to prevent animals or humans from loitering on the tracks, as well as the additional purpose of preventing serious derailment of vehicles if they come off the tracks.
- the main purpose of this invention is to create a device that will make railways safer and prevent people and animals from loitering on the tracks.
- the device is to prevent serious derailment if the railway vehicle comes off its tracks.
- the device in compliance with the invention is based on the principles of cattle guards.
- the fact that animals do not cross cattle guards, and that people find them uncomfortable to walk on demonstrates that they are an effective way of stopping animals from crossing them, as well as people from loitering on them.
- the device in compliance with the invention, includes artificial elevations designed to make people and animals feel uncomfortable when they walk on tracks that have the device.
- the device in compliance with the first design, is a concrete railway sleeper.
- This concrete sleeper has an elevation that extends between two parallel tracks on a railway.
- the elevation can be formed in two ways, either by casting an elevation as one unit which can be adapted to existing and new sleepers with the aid of a suitable fastening agent, such as glue, or that an integrated elevation is placed on new sleepers when they are cast. It should be noted that the elevation may take on any shape or form that ends up pointed.
- the device in compliance with the invention will improve the lifetime of the sleeper significantly.
- Today's sleepers are mainly flat on their top surfaces, which allows moisture, rainwater and dirt to collect on top of them and thus the sleeper disintegrates. T is will not be an issue with this invention. Moisture, rainwater and dirt will run off the sleeper because of the elevation.
- conductor rails are safety rails that He parallel to the rails of the tracks that railway vehicles run on, only they are on the inside. It is a known problem that today's mounting of conductor rails involves drilling four holes in each of the sleepers to secure the conductor rail. This causes water and dirt to penetrate into the sleeper and its lifetime becomes drastically reduced.
- the purpose of the conductor rails is to prevent the railway vehicle from ending up outside the track if derailment occurs, as the wheels of the vehicle will be trapped between the conductor rail and track.
- the invention will solve this problem as the elevation is adapted to fasten conductor rails at each end of the device, for example through specially designed end blocks and adapted fastening methods. Therefore, where sleepers already exist, ft should be possible to glue the elevation to the existing sleepers and then attach the conductor rails to the elevation. Thus, a solution to prolong the life of railway sleepers white at the same time satisfy new demands on safety has been found. With new sleepers, the elevations with blocks at both ends and fastening gadgets for the conductor rails are, of course, integrated during the casting process so that the conductor rails can be mounted directly onto the new sleeper that has an elevation.
- the elevation will preferably be cast with a hollow cavity, or in a material that will become misshapen if the wheel ends up on top of the elevation after derailing and comes out of its track.
- the conductor rail is adapted to contain cables, which normally buried along the tracks, for example in a U-shape, where the opening of the U- shape faces the tracks or, for example they are a rectangular shape with a hollow cavity.
- the conductor rails are hollow inside, it is preferred that they have openings at regular intervals, preferably on the side facing the tracks to provide access to the hollow cavity for the insertion and removal of cables, as well as access to cables that are already inside the conductor rails. In this way, cables that are usually buried along the tracks or put in culverts along the tracks are placed inside conductor rails instead. In this way, the cost of laying cables and their maintenance will be reduced. The benefits will also be seen when localising errors, as the tracks tend to be free of snow and ice.
- the device in compliance with a second design, is preferably formed by parallel conductor rails that have elevations that stretch at reciprocal fixed distances between the leading rails.
- the distance between the conductor rails is somewhat shorter than the distance between the rails of the track.
- the elevations are also shaped in a way that makes it uncomfortable to walk on the tracks. The distance between the elevations is adapted to make it very uncomfortable to walk there.
- the device is further supplied with suitable connection gadgets which allows for several devices to be placed after one another in succession.
- the conductor rails do not necessarily have to be rectilinear for either of the designs. They can be curved shaped so they can adapt to the bends on the tracks.
- the device has a fastening gadget that makes it possible to secure the device onto an already existing sleeper. For example, this operation can be done the same way as rails are fastened to sleepers, which is by using special type of fastening gadget that attaches the bottom of the rails to the sleepers.
- the conducting rails preferably have one or more pronounced edges which stretch longitudinally along the conductor rails.
- the device Furthermore, it is important that the device will not be an obstacle for railway vehicles travelling on the tracks, so the overall height of the device is adapted to cater for this.
- the device further includes beneficial termination points in places where conductor rails have been utilised. It is crucial that railway vehicles do not hook on to the device when they enter an area where, in compliance with the invention, the device is used.
- Termination points are also vital elements that prevent railway vehicles from ending up on top of the device, in compliance with the invention, should they derail just before the termination point. They will however be led into the area between the track and the conductor rail instead.
- the termination points are preferably formed by two conductor rails, which through the extension of the parallel conductor rails stretch in a longitudinal direction and becomes narrower and narrow so that it ends up as a pointed formation.
- the termination points to their advantage, have elevations like those described above between the conductor rails, or placed on or integrated into the sleepers. In connection with elevations that are placed on or integrated into the sleepers, the width of 2010/000342
- the elevation may in such
- instances be adapted to stretch to both sides of the termination point's conductor rails.
- Another advantage of the invention is that K reduces
- Fig. 1a-b shows a traditional sleeper with and without rails
- Fig. 2a-c shows the device in compliance with the first design in compliance with
- Fig. 3a-c shows the device in compliance with the second design placed on tracks.
- a traditional concrete sleeper 11 is formed, for example,
- outer ends 13 that slant upwards to a joint flat area 14.
- Wooden sleepers are also in existence, but often they do not have slanted outer edges and they are mainly rectangular in shape.
- the tracks 12 have rather pronounced edges 15 where suitable fastening gadgets 16 can be used to fasten the tracks 12 to the sleepers 11.
- fig. 2a-c shows a device 20 that is in compliance with the first design of the invention.
- a new sleeper 20 has been created for railway tracks which primarily has a centrally placed elevation 21.
- the elevation 21 can be formed in two ways. It can be casted 21 as one unit which can be adapted to the existing sleepers and new traditional sleepers 11 by fastening them with appropriate fastening gadgets so they become permanently fixed to each railway sleeper, or with new sleepers 11 , the elevation is preferably integrated during the casting process for the sleeper 20. It should be noted that the elevation 21 may take on any shape that ends up pointed, which makes it uncomfortable to walk on.
- the sleeper 20 will have a prolonged lifetime with this design.
- sleepers today are design mainly with flat top surfaces, which allows for moisture, rainwater and dirt to collect on top of the sleeper leaving the sleeper disintegrates. This will not be an issue with the invention, since moisture, rainwater and dirt will run off the railway sleeper because of the elevation 2 .
- the device in compliance with the first design of the Invention is ready for the fastening of conductor rails 22.
- the advantage of this design is that the device primarily includes rectangular end blocks 23 on each side of the elevation 21 , which will form a fastening surface for the conductor rails 22.
- it is adapted to fastening gadgets 24 for the fastening of conductor rails 22 to the end blocks. After the conductor rails 22 have been placed on the device 20 they will stretch parallel to the tracks 12 that the railway vehicles run on, but on the inside.
- the device can be suited to existing railway sleepers, which are made as new sleepers, the device will increase the lifetime of new and old sleepers, as well as inaease safety since the conductor rails can be fastened to the device and concurrently prevent animals and humans from walking on the tracks.
- the elevation 21 has end blocks 23 and any fastening gadget 24 for the conductor rails 22 is integrated in the casting process.
- the elevation 21 will preferably have a hollow cavRy or made with suitable materials that will become misshapen if the railway vehicle's wheel touches on the elevation 21 after derailing.
- the device can be made with adaptations for conductor rails, as shown in fig. 2b and 2c, and without adaptations for conductor rails, as shown in Bg. 2a.
- the beneficial conductor rails 22 come to an end at the termination point 25.
- the design of the termination point 25 allows it to stretch in a longitudinal direction as its width becomes narrower, ending as a pointed shape, i.e., two conductor raits 22 that end up as a point.
- the preferred device is in compliance with the invention that has sleepers 20 with elevations 21 , which become narrower in width so they allow the conductor rails 22 to narrow into a pointed shape.
- the elevation 21 may have cut outs that allow the conductor rails 22 to narrow into a point.
- the device will have an reinforcing function that prevents the termination points 25 from bending easily should a train derail.
- the termination points 25 may also include a covering plate (not shown) that stretches over the narrowing area to the conductor rails 22 so that an even surface forms over the termination points 25. This may be in addition to/instead of elevations 21 on the sleepers 20. In this way, objects that are hanging off the moving train will not catch. It will also prevent a dangerous situation from arising if the train should derail right in front of a device, in compliance with the invention, since the termination points 25 will direct the train between the conductor rails 25 and the tracks 12.
- the device 30 in compliance with a second design includes two longitudinal and parallel conductor rails 22, which primarily have a rather rectangular profile. Between the conductor rails 22 elevations are found 21 as described in the first design, arranged at a recicprocal distance along the conductor rails 22.
- the conductor rails 22 also have connection devices (not shown), as well as a groove and tongue solution or other suitable fastening gadgets so that several devices 30 can be fitted in succession.
- the device 30 has suitable fastening gadgets (not shown), as well as a turnbuckle or similar, mainly for fastening to the railway sleepers 20 that lie under the rails 12 of the track.
- the conductor rails 22 may have a longitudinal pronounced edge 32 on the inside and/or the outside in the same way as the rails 12 have a pronounced longitudinal edges 5, up to where a suitable fastening gadget 16 can be used, as shown in fig. 1b.
- a suitable fastening gadget 16 can be used, as shown in fig. 1b.
- an existing fastening gadget 16 can be used to fasten the device 30 in compliance with the invention, to sleepers 11.
- the device can also be curved shaped so that it can be adapted to curved railway tracks.
- fig. 3b-c shows a device 30 in compliance with the invention that has a termination point 25.
- the design of the termination point 25 allows its width to become narrower in a longitudinal direction from the end of the device 30 to form a final point.
- the termination point 25 in this design is all the elevations 21 as described above in fig. 3a to prevent animals and humans from loitering on the tracks.
- the elevations 21 also have a reinforcing function that prevents the termination points 25 from bending easily should a train derail.
- the termination points 25 may as mentioned above have a covering piate (not shown) that stretches across the conductor rails 22 so that an even surface is formed over the termination point 25.
- conductor rails 22 are adapted to house cables that are normally buried along the railway tracks or placed in culverts along the tracks. This is achieved, for example, by the conductor rails 22 being primarily rectangular in shape with a hollow cavity 33, e.g., as shown in Fig. 3a, which can be used to pull cables through. In places where elevations 31 have not been used directly on the conductor rails 22, as shown in fig. 2c, the conductor rails 22 may have a U- shape, where the opening of the U-shape faces inwards to the track, so that cables can be arranged in the conductor rails 22.
- Another solution would be to have conductor rails 22 with hollow cavities and cut outs in a longitudinal direction that provide access to the cavity.
- the advantage of the two aforementioned solutions versus the first solution is that there is full access to the cables; however they are more exposed to damage.
- the conductor rails can have openings to pull cables through the bottom so they can be taken further into the ground or culverts along the railway tracks.
- railway sleepers with elevations shall preferably be made of concrete when new ones are laid.
- the elevations may have different shapes that end up pointed, such as a triangle or similar shapes.
- the termination points may, in addition to slanting inwards to form a point, have a waning height.
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- Architecture (AREA)
- Pest Control & Pesticides (AREA)
- Wood Science & Technology (AREA)
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- Train Traffic Observation, Control, And Security (AREA)
- Railway Tracks (AREA)
- Platform Screen Doors And Railroad Systems (AREA)
- Installation Of Indoor Wiring (AREA)
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Applications Claiming Priority (2)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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NO20093434A NO20093434A1 (en) | 2009-11-27 | 2009-11-27 | Railing protection device |
PCT/NO2010/000342 WO2011065834A1 (en) | 2009-11-27 | 2010-09-20 | Device for securing railway lines |
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EP2504489A1 true EP2504489A1 (en) | 2012-10-03 |
EP2504489A4 EP2504489A4 (en) | 2014-05-21 |
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EP10833625.6A Ceased EP2504489A4 (en) | 2009-11-27 | 2010-09-20 | Device for securing railway lines |
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US (1) | US20120211711A1 (en) |
EP (1) | EP2504489A4 (en) |
CN (1) | CN102666992A (en) |
AU (2) | AU2010325240A1 (en) |
CA (1) | CA2779171A1 (en) |
NO (1) | NO20093434A1 (en) |
RU (1) | RU2540185C2 (en) |
WO (1) | WO2011065834A1 (en) |
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US664042A (en) * | 1900-03-23 | 1900-12-18 | William H Hillyer | Metallic railway-tie. |
US2725958A (en) * | 1953-03-16 | 1955-12-06 | Flexicore Co Of Colorado | Bumper block |
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US664042A (en) * | 1900-03-23 | 1900-12-18 | William H Hillyer | Metallic railway-tie. |
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