GB2237253A - The improvements for rail transportations - Google Patents

Abstract

The improvements for rail transportations comprise a hard, non-elastic wheel, the tread of which is alternately arranged with a plurality of parallel transverse ridges and troughs which are preferably matched to the surface 20 of flat rails 25. A switching circuit may be installed in the door of the train whereby electricity for starting is not transmitted unless the door is closed. A double hook pole with metal embedded in insulators at the ends coact with a conductor installed at mid-width for electrical transmission. A C-shaped rail possessing upper and or lower treads may be provided to enable a train to run upside down along the track in forms of coil, circular, spiral, helical, solenoid, screw and the like paths without derailing. <IMAGE>

Description

THE IMPROVEMENTS FOR RAIL TRANSPORTATIONS This invention relates to the wheel and rail with installations of the transmissions of electricity for a train, electric train or tra@ to improve the transportations on rails.

The present invention cor.prises a non-elastic rough cushi@ny wheel, T type or double hrrk pole, secure electric door, C - Shaped Rail, rough, wider and flat rail and means for installations of electric transmissions to irr.prc- ve the present conditions and historic customary deficiencies in the transportations of the railways and tramways.Such improvements will fit for the requireroerts nf the public and domestic services and may be effectively employed in the fields of electric train, train, trar., rope train, r rtive play, toy, trolley, railway, tramway, underground railway, road,mine, garden playground, showground, underocean,or undersea or cross harbour tunnel, lift, house, building. and the like.

The principal object of the invention is to provide with a simple, safe and ecnnotr.ical ean to increase a greater friction and adhesive force between the treads of wheel and rail enabling a train to produce a massive rushing power for starting and roving on the rails for transportaticns in order to irprove the present phenomenon and overcorse the traditional leficiencies tn become an ideal up-to-dave noiseless, rapid, steady, confortable, safe and economical electric train or train for saving a lot of tire and combustible substances and itaterials fitted for the requirement of the irprovement in the worldwide raid transportations.

To this end, it is provided that both treads of a wheel and rail must be effectively constituted in wider, flat and yough in order to obtain r-nre adhesive area and friction, for the wider and rougher the contact surface, the greater the adhesive force and friction is a physical theory. Therefore the preferable rough one may be alternatively arranged in the forms of a plurality of parallel, convex, hard and transversal stripes and concave troughs in order to increase friction and power and the convex stripes on the tread of a wheel will be adequately coupled to the concave troughs on the tread of a rail and vice versa.The actions exerted to the treads of wheel and rail produce a greater rushing power and friction during operation. % means of coupling, a train will obtain sufficient speed or power to clirrb up a slope of hill or mountain or easierly cross any unlevel land or highland.

Both treads of a wheel and rail can be arranged in different forr;s of a plurality of convex dots, ripples, patterns, streaks, transversal; slanting or oblique stripes and the like. The cushiony wheel corprises a metal wheel and a cushion which is made by a non-elastic, rough, hard, heat tolerating, flexible, endurable, rubber or plastic material and the like, by which the metal wheel way be entirely enveloped to become a rough nonelastic wheel and the cushion nay then becorre a hard tyre of a normal metal wheel. Thus such.

non-elastic rough wheels may be also employed to run on the presret normal rail to cause higher speed during operation. The phenomenon of friction and the surroundings of long journey along the railway will be greatly changed.

According to the invention, at the extreme or a certain point or place of an entire closed door, a switch or circuit which is installed in a closecircuit is arranged as a circuit breaker for the transrsssion of electricity.

In. event of a passengeris uncarefully pressed by the closing door of train, an open circuit is occurred for a door is half npenel or closed. 3y means of this pre-switch, the control of a train cannot be started due to without the electricity unless the door is entirely closed up. This electric door contro lling circuit or installation can be extended to the doors of the buildings, houses, lifts and the like.

According to the invention, an electric transmitting conductor can be installed in a secure and conceal side of a rail, to which an insulated surface of an open or half open conductor is steadily affixed. Another surface of the conductor which is contacted to the control of a train or trar or rnpetram is smooths open, convex, semi-cylindrical or flat. This arrangement is preferably employed in an underground railway or tramway and an undersea, underocean and cross harbour tunnels for without any crossing walkers.

In another aspect, an arrangerent of a single pole is a mean to employ a T type or double hook pole installed at the rriddle of a railway or tramway for the transmissin of electricity. One end of a hook is connected to the top of a larger vertical metal pole, another end is arranged to joint with an insulator, in the middle of which a metal or conductor is embedded for a single open continuous conductor to be welded or soldered, or the lights or lamps can be in lieu. By way of employing a double hook pole or T type pole, only a half number of such normal pole is used and all the complicate netty wires or cables above the rails can tnen be saved anl omitted.

The present invention is also extending to the C - Shaped Rail, into which a small wheel or rough cushiony wheel of a train can be inserted for running throughout and never trailing. The treads of wheel and rail may be also made into wider, flat and rough in forms of dots, patterns, ripples, streaks, slanting or oblique, transversal stripes and the like.It is provided that the upper and lower portions of a C - Shaped Rail or the latter are rails, the treads of which and wheel are arranged with a plurality of parallel alternative transversal convex stripes and concave troughs, both ofwhich can be coupled one another during operation to produce a massive friction or rushing power to enable a train or motive play or trar.. or toy to run upside down throughout a track or parallel rails in forns of solenoid, helical, coil helix, circular, spiral, screw and the like. This rail may also be employed in the public and tourist places as garden, playground, showground, playland and anusetnent places for youghs, children and tourists, and may be arranged to make into a C - Shaped, G - Shaped or Bracket Shaped and the like. It may also be employed in the railway or trairway of underground and the tunnels of underocean, undersea, crossharbour and a long journey for high speed in the most security.

The embodiment of this invention will be hereinafter described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which: Figure 1 shows a perspective view of a cushiony wheel, in which a cushion and a metal wheel will be incorporated; Figure 2 is a perspective view of a double hook pole; figure 3 shows a perspective view of a flat cushiony wheel operating in a sectional C - Shaped Rail; Figure 4 shows a perspective view of a cushiony wheel with a rear guard operating in another sectional C - Shaped Rail; Figure 5 is a perspective view of a sin:plest sectional C - Shaped Rail; Figure 6 is a perspective view of a practical sectional C - Shaped Rail with a masking edge.

h rough cushiony wheel as shown in Figure 1 comprises two in corp orated parts, the back of which is an original metal wheel with its rear guard 1 keeping itself to run on rail as used in the present trains and become a felloe of a cushiony wheel in the present invention; perhaps this metal wheel may be entirely enveloped by a non-elastic material. Thus this nonelastic cushion 2 or hard tyre as the front part of the drawing can then be omitted.The tread of a cushion 3 is alternatively arranged with a plurality of parallel, hard, convex, rough and transversal stripes 4 and the concave troughs 5 in order to increase friction between a wheel and rail, both treads of which may be nade into any different forms of patterns, ripples, dots, streaks, slanting or oblique and transversal stripes changed the present traditional and customary visible phenomenon of narrow and smooth tread and heavy and large wheel defects in a train.

A cushion with its convex masking heads 6 in the inner surface 7 is tightly coupled to the concave masking holes 8 in the rir. 9 of a metal wheel. The size of these masking heads and holes must be entirely fitted and matched one another for fair incorporaticn. In this connexion, the height 10 of a head and the depth 11 of a hole must be matching and such heads and holes may be arranged more than two or only a circular one in a cushion anq metal wheel respectively ;either two or four of those will be preferable.

The diameters of a cushion and wheel must be the sane size matching each other or the first may be made into a very little smaller reasonably in order to attach tightly. Both coupling surfaces of a cushion and wheel may be made into smooth without heads and holes for being affixed each other closestly by an adhesive glue. These arrangements are made to avoid the case of a cushion being too loose or running off or disjointed the wheel accidentally during operation.

rhe spoke 12 in the vertical circular surface of a wheelis supported the weight of a train and the concave hollow part 13 of a wheel is arranged to reduce its weight adequately. lthe middle part of a wheel is an axle cnver 14 employed to avoid the dirty dusts to soil the lubrication of the grease and engine oil between an axle and a wheel in order to reduce friction there.

Ry way of a single pole as a double hook pole or T - Type pnle of Fig.

2 in lieu of the present complicate double pole-electric transmission may be installed at the midd#e of a railway. There are two metal tubes or insulated materials curved into sem circular hooksl5, one endsof which are inserted to the larger metal pole 16 via a circular joint hole 17 which can be covered by welding or inserted two more smaller and shorter ones for lamps or lights of a railway. This is the idea of a circle inscribed with another four touching circles. The lights can also be installed on the darner hooks and the fluorescent lights are straightly installed in the rail course. By way of this installation, the invisible shadow of a single pole can then be effected.Another end of a honk is joined with an insulator 18, at the middle of which a metal or conductor 19 is embedded for a very long continuous ppen or half open wire or conductor will be soldered or welded there for the transmission of electricity from the mains. By means of such arrangement, only one double hook pole with twe separate single welded open wires is so employed for a railway. The size of a hook is adequately extended above the middle of each track. Thus a lot of complicate netty wires or cables over the rails is then be omitted. A single welded open conductor is sufficient in security for the power is obtained by an elastic raising contact to touch one another; thus a train will never pull it down for causing an unexpected calamity.

Two treads of a rail 20 are arranged in its upper and lower portions to become a C - Shaped Rail of Figs. 3 to 6, throughout the treads of which a rough, wider and flat one may also be arranged to touch the sare treads of the cushiony wheel 21 of Figs. 3 and 4. It is preferably provided that a plurality of alternative convex transversal stripes 22 and concave troughs 23 made into the treads of a wheel and rail are easierly coupled one another in operation producing a greater rushing power for a train climbing up a slrpe of a railway built on a hill or plainless land even mountain and a railway iB unnecessarily built only on the horizontal plain way.Perhaps such rough rail or C - Shaped Rail may be particularly built on the slnpes of hills and lands for the construction of a railway. For another special tread of rail is just made above a wheel, a train can then run upside down along its parallel track in the forms of helical,helix, solenoid, circular, spiral, coil and the like paths never derailing in the garden, playground.and showground. This is a mean which maybe made into a motive play and even a toy for children . It is provided that the C er G or Bracket - Shaped Rail of Figs. 5 and 6 may be employed in the long journey rail transportation for high speeds preferably; especially the rails constructed inthe underground, underocean and undersea tunnels as a eiiired one for the most security.

The thickness of a cushion 24 must be limited and matched with height of a rail 25 and a diameter of rear guard for a cushiony wheel of Fig. 4 or the present train wheel except the flat cushiony wheel of hlig. 3. In case of a cushion is too thick, either a diameter of a metal wheel should be reduced or the rear guard is enlarged corresponsively to keep the wheel running in the rails safely otherwise a train may be derailed easily tocause unexpected calamities. The unlevel and too wide joints of rails will make a train shaky and even skipping during operation. The heavier the pressing weight, the greater the elastic force. For a rubber or plastic substance owns such real elastic, re-elastic, and anti-elastic characteristics which will be an alarm.

for the material of a cushion employed in the cushiony wheel of a train.

The tread guard of a rail 26 in Fig. 3 is keeping the wheel running within the C - Shaped Rail without derailing. The size of a cushiony wheel must be fitted in matching with the upper and lower rails for a train to run without obstruction during high speed operation. The rail guard 27 of Fig. 4 must be arranged for smooth and sharp edge for less contact surface with the rear guard and is also arranged for reducing the unnecessary friction between the rear guard of a wheel and the inner side 28 of the tread guard in Fig. 3.

Convex semi-cylindrical continuous open wire or conductor may be installed in the conseal side 29 of the rail guard in Figs. 4 and 6 and another flat surface of this conductor is insulated and affixed tightly to there or any secure and convenient side of a rail for the transmission of electricity.

This arrangement is preferable for the railway without any crossing walkers.

The masking edge 30 of a rail in Fig. 6 can be made into fts bothsides to keep it tightly or any side as required. The simpler C - Shaped Rails of Figs. 3 and 5 are arranged for the ordinary flat wheels which may be also made wider and rough in order to obtain more area on the treads for increase more adhesive force and friction changing the present condition or phenomenon of lack of friction for employing a sledge-slippery type moving on the marrow smooth and convex treads on the rail transportation over the world.

Claims (9)

CLII,S

1. A train, tram or play comprising a cushiony wheel, C - Shaped Rail, safe electric door, T type or double hook pole, means for electric transmissions and a rough rail, said cushiony wheel constituted by a metal wheel and a cushion made by non-elastic, hard and rough rubber or plastic material and the like, by which a metalwheel can be entirely enveloped and the treads of said wheel and rail are flat, wider and rough with arrangeuent in different forms of convex dots, ripples, patterns, streaks, transversal, slanting or oblique stripes and the like.

2. A train according to claim 1, wherein said cushiony wheel is part of train and the treads of cushiony wheel and rail are arranged with a plurality of a parallel alternative transversal convex stripes and concave troughs, both of which may be coupled and adequately matched one another during operation.

3. A train according to preceding claims, wherein the thickness nf cushion is between one to ten centimeters.

4. h train as claimed in clairs 1 to 3, wherein thickness of cushion is 5 curs.

5. A train according to claims 1 and 2, wherein a T type cr double honX pole ended with retal embedded insulator is installed for electric transmission.

6. A train according to claims 1 and 2, wherein an insulated surface of ahalf open or open semi-cylindrical convex or flat conductor isinstalled at the conceal side of a rail for transmission of electricity.

7. A train according to claims 1 and 2, wherein a circuit, switching circuit of an electric safe door controls the electricity for starting

8. A train according to claims 1 to 6, wherein a C - Shaped Rail comprising the upper and or lower treads is arranged for running upside down throughout the parallel rails or track in forms of coil, circular, solenoid, helical, helix, screw, spiral and the like paths.

9. A train, electric train, tram, rrpetrar or toy substantially as herein described and as shown in the accompanying drawings.