Rail wheel stop mechanism for road/rail vehicle

Details Rail wheel stop mechanism for road/rail vehicle Rail wheel stop mechanism for road/rail vehicle

B - Operations, Transporting

60

F

B60F 1/04 (2006.01) B61F 5/32 (2006.01) B61F 13/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2356231

For use with a road/rail vehicle that is convertible from a road mode for traveling on a road, to a rail mode for traveling on rails, an apparatus for mounting a rail wheel to the vehicle. The apparatus comprises an air bag bearing against the rail wheel and the vehicle frame such that the vehicle frame is supported on the rail wheel by the air bag and such that the vehicle frame can move up and down with respect to the rail wheel in response to motion of the vehicle along a set of rails. A stop mechanism is attached to the vehicle frame and to the rail wheel and is operative to allow the vehicle frame to move down with respect to the rail wheel only to a stopped position where adjacent road wheels of the vehicle are above the rails. A kit allows installation on existing road/rail vehicles.

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