Convertible rail-highway vehicle
AssigneeSociete d'Ingenierie des Transports
InventorGustave Noyon
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a dismountable car for the technical coordination of rail-highway transport, wherein the car is adapted to support two identical loads and its chassis is in two elements respectively borne by the end bogies and provided with traction and buffer members, these two elements being connected in the median zone of the car by disconnectable connection means and their corresponding ends being adapted to be supported by retractable support devices which may rest via lower rail wheels on the rails and abut on these elements to maintain them substantially horizontal and lift or lower their free ends slightly.
Claims7
A rail car for the technical coordination of rail-highway transport, intended for transporting removable bodies which constitute rail car superstructure for rail transport and road vehicle infrastructure for highway transport, said car having an infrastructure which comprises,
- a working chassis adapted to support the load as well as the forces of traction and collision with a buffer, the chassis being divided into at least two elements and each element having a collision end and a separation end,
- disconnectable connecting means adapted to connect said chassis elements,
- a rolling element positioned to support each chassis element adjacent its collision end,
- a retractable support device mounted on each chassis element adjacent its separation end,
- means on each chassis element for longitudinally guiding a load on said element,
- means on at least one chassis element for effecting longitudinal movement of a load, and
- means for actuating said support device to control and determine the height at which said separation end is supported,
- whereby the separation end of a chassis element can be moved to a position slightly above or below the level of an adjacent road vehicle bed to facilitate the transferring of load to and from said road vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.