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AssigneeDaimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsHerbert Mehren, Helmut Wulf
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A public passenger local traffic system with vehicles capable of driving either on streets or guided mechanically transversely in drive channels with at least approximately vertically extending switch guide surfaces being provided within an area of drive channel bifurcations or mergers, which are arranged substantially parallel to the respective outer continuous channel side and point away from the drive channel. The switch guide surfaces serve to guide the vehicles on both sides by means of switch guide rollers which are mounted laterally at the vehicle and having a substantially vertical axis. The switch guide rollers each have an at least approximately vertical roll-off surface in the operating position which cooperates with the switch guide surfaces. The switch guide rollers are supported on switch guide levers whose pivot axes are arranged at least approximately at the same height as the center of the switch guide surface. The roll-off surface of the switch guide-roller, as viewed in vertical cross section, and the switch guide surface, as viewed in cross section, are so profiled relative to one another that the switch guide roller is stabilized during the rolling on the switch guide surface in a center roll height position as a result of the profiling.
A traffic system which includes vehicles adapted to be driven on one of roads without tracks or in tracks, the traffic system including drive channel means for forming tracks for a track-tied operation of the vehicles, means for mechanically transversely guiding the vehicles in said drive channel means, switch guide surface means extending at least approximately vertically and pointing away from the drive channel means, the switch guide surface means is arranged substantially parallel to a respective outer side of the drive channel means within an area of one of bifurcations or mergers provided in the drive channel means, switch guide roller means arranged on both sides of the vehicles, said switch guide rollers means having an at least approximately vertical axis of rotation in an operating position and being adapted to cooperate with the switch guide surface means, and switch guide lever means for supporting the switch guide roller means at the vehicles, and means for mounting said switch guide lever means so as to be pivotal about a pivot axis disposed at least approximately parallel to a driving direction of the vehicle, characterized in that the mounting means are so arranged that the pivot axes of the switch guide lever means are at least approximately at the same height as a center of the switch guide roller means, the switch guide roller means include a roll surface cooperable with a surface of the switch guide surface means when the switch guide roller means are in an operative position, the roll surface of the switch guide roller means, as viewed in a vertical cross-section, and the surface of the guide surface means, as viewed in cross-section each have a complementary profile relative to one another so that the switch guide roller means are stabilized in a center roll-off height position during a rolling on the switch guide surface means by the complementary profiles thereof, and in that means are provided for mounting said switch guide lever means at the transversely mechanically guiding means so as to enable the switch guide roller means to execute pivotal motion relative to the transversely mechanically guiding means in a vertical plane when the guiding means is in the operating position.
A traffic system including vehicles adapted to be driven on one of roads or on tracks, the traffic system including drive channel means for forming tracks for the vehicles, means for mechanically transversely guiding the vehicles within said drive channel means, two switch guide means extending approximately vertically and arranged within an area of at least one of bifurcations or mergers of the drive channel means, each of the switch guide means are arranged substantially parallel to a respective outer side and point away from the drive channel means, and switch guide roller means having an at least approximately vertical roll surface means provided on both sides of the vehicles and cooperable with the switch guide surface means, characterized in that means are provided for alternately moving at least a partial length of the two switch guide surface means in at least one of an area of a beginning of the bifurcations or at an end of the mergers into an ineffectual position located outside of a profile of the drive channel means, and in that means are provided for mounting the switch guide roller means so as to enable the switch guide roller means to execute pivotal motion when the switch guide roller means are in an operative position cooperable with the guide surface means.
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