Switch for a suspended railway vehicle

A switch for a suspended railway vehicle having two elastic wheels, comprising a first, second, third and fourth rail, said first and second rails together forming a first double-rail path whereas said first rail with said third rail and said second rail with said fourth rail form second and third double-rail paths, respectively, which branch off from said first path in a branching direction and merge into said first path in a merging direction, said four rails having contact surfaces and together bounding a gap so that during running of the vehicle on the switch from one to another path one wheel of the vehicle enters the gap and runs without support and after passing said gap the one wheel engages with a portion of one rail of the other path;

• a plurality of ramps each arranged on a respective one of said portions and having a contact surface which is inclined in the direction transverse to the direction of elongation of the respective rail so that when the one wheel after passing said gap runs onto a respective one of said ramps it is raised onto said contact surface of the one rail of the other path, the contact surface of each said ramps furthermore including a transitional portion merging into the respective rail with a transverse inclination which decreases proceeding in the direction along which the transitional portion merges into the respective rail, said plurality of ramps including two such ramps located downstream of said gap as considered in said merging direction, and each having two sections spaced from one another in said transverse direction, said sections of each of said two ramps having differing transverse inclinations.