Centering device for a rail brake magnet unit
AssigneeKnorr-Bremse GmbH
InventorErnst Katzer
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Abstract
A rail brake magnet unit on a vehicle comprising separate rail brake magnets or a plurality of rail brake magnets connected together by a frame is vertically movable between a lowered operative position and a raised inoperative position. On approximately the four corners of the upper portion of the magnet unit there are provided inclined slide surfaces each of which engages a plane surface of a corresponding number of resilient buffers mounted on the vehicle structure when the rail brake magnet unit is in its raised inoperative position.
Claims6
A device on a vehicle structure for centering a rail brake magnet assembly comprising at least one rail brake magnet having four corners substantially rectangularly arranged on the upper portion thereof and vertically movable between a lowered operative position and a raised inoperative position, comprising means on each of the four corners for defining a slide surface thereon, each of said slide surfaces being inclined from the vertical downwardly toward a side of the magnet assembly such that transversely opposed slide surfaces on different sides of an axis of the magnet assembly are oppositely inclined, and four resilient buffers mounted on the vehicle structure and each having a plane surface engageable by said slide surfaces respectively when the rail brake magnet assembly is in its raised inoperative position to retain the magnet assembly in a fixed and centered position with respect to the said vehicle structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.