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US 11,584,409 B2Granted
Railroad color light signals including wind reduction elements
AssigneeSiemens Mobility GmbH
InventorsNathan Fletcher, Zhenzhong Long
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Abstract
A railroad signal includes a mounting bracket and a signal head, the signal head being mounted to another structure by the mounting bracket, wherein the signal head includes a signal housing, a plurality of signal lights positioned in the signal housing, and a protection device for reducing or eliminating wind forces, the protection device comprising a snow shield and at least one wind guide element.
Claims11
A signal head comprising:
- a signal housing,
- a plurality of signal lights positioned in the signal housing, and
- a protection device for reducing or eliminating wind forces, the protection device comprising
- a snow shield, and
- at least one wind guide element,
- wherein the protection device incorporates the snow shield and the at least one wind guide element, such that the snow shield acts as a wind guide,
- wherein the protection device comprises a tapered body and is configured as tunnel visor with a lower cutout, and
- wherein the protection device is mounted to a background support structure, and wherein a width of the tapered body reduces in a direction away from the background support structure.
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A signal head comprising:
- a signal housing,
- a plurality of signal lights positioned in the signal housing, and
- a protection device for reducing or eliminating wind forces, the protection device comprising
- a snow shield, and
- at least one wind guide element,
- wherein the snow shield is configured as tunnel visor with a lower cutout,
- wherein the snow shield is mounted to a background support structure,
- wherein the at least one wind guide element comprises a rear wind guide located on a back side of the background support structure, and
- wherein the rear wind guide creates an open space between the background support structure and the rear wind guide.
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A signal head comprising:
- a signal housing,
- a plurality of signal lights positioned in the signal housing, and
- a protection device for reducing or eliminating wind forces, the protection device comprising
- a snow shield, and
- at least one wind guide element,
- wherein the snow shield is configured as tunnel visor with a lower cutout,
- wherein the snow shield is mounted to a background support structure
- wherein the at least one wind guide element comprises a front side wind guide mounted to the snow shield, and
- wherein the front side wind guide comprises upper and lower covers thereby creating an enclosed front side wind guide.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.