US3631807A - Elevated railway system - Google Patents

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US3631807A
US3631807A US877331A US3631807DA US3631807A US 3631807 A US3631807 A US 3631807A US 877331 A US877331 A US 877331A US 3631807D A US3631807D A US 3631807DA US 3631807 A US3631807 A US 3631807A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • a railway system including a pair of horizontally spaced rails supported above the ground, a rail vehicle divided into an upper level and a lower level, and drive wheels supporting the vehicle on the rails with at least a major portion of the upper level above the rails, and at least a major portion of the lower level below the rails.
  • this invention refers to improvements in the manufacture of high-speed electric railways with the rolling device situated at half the height of the convoy of two practicable floors and provided with remote control by means of a closed television circuit, with automatic control combined between the central station and each circulatory automotor by means of electronic automatic registration systems, with a televisor at the head and another at the tail of the convoy, and fixing of the transmitted orders by perforations on tapes for their automatization into preestablished orders, which controls and orders are realized from the respective electric boards and may be manual or automatic under the direct inspection of the technical attendants in the cabin in front of the group of traction motors.
  • the motors grouped in various units within the upper cabin have their shafts disposed at right angles to the direction of the convoy, and project from the vehicle-housing at their extremities where they are solidly connected to the wheels which will be called rollers from now onward in this specification.
  • rollers are of truncated pyramid form and move longitudinally on a bevel provided in their interior sides by adequate rails sustained by and solid with longitudinal horizontal reinforcements of H-section that form continuous fixing girders on supporting arms on inverted double-angular section beam embedded and fixed to the supporting mortised columns of square or vertical rectangular section at their supporting bases comprising blocks of stone, cement or concrete held in the ground.
  • the upper floor is much narrower than the lower one, the two units constructed to form a single aerodynamic block, accessible by means of a doubleleaf sliding door at the center of the convoy.
  • the trolley has been provided above the roof of the upper fioor, one in the center of each unit and over the respective motor group.
  • FIG. 1 is a side view of a two-unit convoy showing the two floors; the two trolleys, one in the center of each unit; the central two-leaf sliding door; the command and control cabins, one anterior and the other posterior; the foundations supporting the whole assembly; the two groups of motors beneath both of the respective trolleys.
  • HO. 2 shows a section through A, B, of the assembly in FIG. 1, where the two branches of each trolley are seen which collect the current from the biphase line; the stairway that leads from the lower to the upper floor.
  • FIG. 3 is a cross section of the lower floor showing the distribution of the easy chairs separated by a central passage.
  • FlG. 4 is a cross section of the upper floor in the central part destined to a passage.
  • HO. 5 shows partly in section a frontal view of the motor group with the rollers bearing on the specially designed rails solidly fixed onto the H-section reinforcements arranged horizontally.
  • 1 shows each of the motor units integrated in the respective groups; 2 represents the commutation terminals of each motor; 3 shows the truncated pyramidal rollers fixed solidly to each projecting shaft extremity of each motor; 4 shows the rails specially provided with bevels adapted to the bevel angle of the rollers 3; 5 shows the leaf springs between the chassis and the ends of the shaft of each motor; 6 shows the bearing bracket and lubricators of the motor shaft; 7 represents each of the motor shafts; 8 shows the bases of the supporting columns on the ground that support the assembly structural framework; 9 shows the columns embedded axially in the upper portions of the bases 8 with square or rectangular section; 10 shows the round bar transversal tie rods between the columns 9 close to the bases 8; 11 shows the round bar inclined tie rods fixed to the ends of the arms 13 that support the rails and of whose lower portions are embedded in the bases 8 to pass through and consolidate one in each column 9; 13 represents the horizontal arms whose inner extremities support the rails, while the outer extremities are lengthened
  • a railway system comprising a pair of parallel and horizontally spaced rails and means supporting said rails a substantial distance above the ground, and a motorized rail vehicle rollingly supported on said rails, said rail vehicle having a plurality of opposed pairs of drive wheels disposed in rolling engagement with said rails, said drive wheels and said rails having cooperating means for maintaining said rail vehicle centered relative to said rails, said cooperating means including opposed frustoconical surfaces of substantial slope formed on each pair of said wheels and correspondingly opposed beveled surfaces of substantial slope formed on said rails, the frustoconical surfaces of said wheels having a substantial lateral contact with the beveled surfaces on said rails for causing said rail vehicle to be centered relative to said rails while also permitting said rail vehicle to be rollingly supported on said rails, and said rail vehicle including means dividing same into upper and lower compartments, with at least a major portion of the upper compartment being disposed above the rails and at least a major portion of the lower compartment being disposed below the rails.
  • electric motor means is mounted on said vehicle and positioned coaxially with a pair of said drive wheels for rotatably driving same.
  • a system according to claim 2 wherein two electrical conductors are disposed above and extending in substantially parallel relationship to said rails, said conductors being relatively fixed with respect to the rails and being positioned above said vehicle, and trolley means mounted on the top of said vehicle and disposed in engagement with said conductors to transmit electrical current to said motor means.
  • a railway system comprising a pair of parallel and horizontally spaced rails and means supporting said rails a substantial distance above the ground, and a rail vehicle rollingly supported on said rails, said rail vehicle having drive wheels in rolling engagement with said rails, said rail vehicle also including means dividing same into upper and lower compartments with at least a major portion of the upper compartment being disposed above the rails and at least a major portion of the lower compartment being disposed below the rails, said lower compartment being substantially wider than said upper compartment and having portions extending laterally outwardly on opposite sides of said upper compartment, and said drive wheels and said rails being disposed substantially adjacent the interface between said upper and lower compartments with said rails being disposed directly above the laterally extending portions of said lower compartment for improving the stability

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US4425851A (en) 1981-02-17 1984-01-17 Long Alvin L High speed passenger transfer vehicle
US4620358A (en) * 1984-02-06 1986-11-04 Thyssen Industrie Ag Method of securing equipment parts to a trackway supporting structure
US5131132A (en) * 1988-03-26 1992-07-21 Thyssen Industri Age Method for accurately positioning and mounting of component to be connected
US5370059A (en) * 1989-07-25 1994-12-06 Thyssen Industrie Ag Structure for supporting trackway of a track following transportation system, in particular, a magnetic suspension railroad
US5381737A (en) * 1993-05-25 1995-01-17 Trenary; Bryant Rail truck suspended car transit vehicles
CN102912698A (zh) * 2011-08-02 2013-02-06 盐城海旭数控装备有限公司 侧挂式双电源驱动轨道电车专用轨道设施
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US381403A (en) * 1888-04-17 Lucy a
US1020570A (en) * 1909-12-01 1912-03-19 Jerome Orlay Elevated railroad.
US1425805A (en) * 1921-11-04 1922-08-15 Joseph B Strauss Elevated railway
US3369501A (en) * 1964-06-09 1968-02-20 Tsuchimochi Osamu Monocable aerial car

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US83772A (en) * 1868-11-03 Improvement in elevated railways
US381403A (en) * 1888-04-17 Lucy a
US1020570A (en) * 1909-12-01 1912-03-19 Jerome Orlay Elevated railroad.
US1425805A (en) * 1921-11-04 1922-08-15 Joseph B Strauss Elevated railway
US3369501A (en) * 1964-06-09 1968-02-20 Tsuchimochi Osamu Monocable aerial car

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US4195576A (en) * 1976-03-26 1980-04-01 Pullman Incorporated Monorail car stabilizing system
US4425851A (en) 1981-02-17 1984-01-17 Long Alvin L High speed passenger transfer vehicle
US4620358A (en) * 1984-02-06 1986-11-04 Thyssen Industrie Ag Method of securing equipment parts to a trackway supporting structure
US4698895A (en) * 1984-02-06 1987-10-13 Thyssen Industrie Ag Method of securing equipment parts to a trackway supporting structure
US5131132A (en) * 1988-03-26 1992-07-21 Thyssen Industri Age Method for accurately positioning and mounting of component to be connected
US5370059A (en) * 1989-07-25 1994-12-06 Thyssen Industrie Ag Structure for supporting trackway of a track following transportation system, in particular, a magnetic suspension railroad
US5381737A (en) * 1993-05-25 1995-01-17 Trenary; Bryant Rail truck suspended car transit vehicles
CN102912698A (zh) * 2011-08-02 2013-02-06 盐城海旭数控装备有限公司 侧挂式双电源驱动轨道电车专用轨道设施
CN104401330A (zh) * 2014-11-20 2015-03-11 朱小峰 轻型空中轨道交通系统及其使用的电动汽车
CN104401330B (zh) * 2014-11-20 2016-08-17 朱小峰 轻型空中轨道交通系统及其使用的电动汽车

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