Electric rerailer for a model railway
OwnerFukushiro Miurainventor
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Abstract
An electric rerailer provided with guide ways for guiding a motor-driven vehicle of a model railway onto a pair of rails, in which the surfaces of the guide ways are formed by electric conductors electrically isolated from each other and used respectively for the left and right wheels of the vehicle, and the conductors are capable of being electrically contacted with the rails for the left and right wheels respectively. The guide ways are formed on inclined or horizontal surfaces of the rerailer base, and the rerailer base is capable of being releasably mounted on the rails or being connected between ends of the rails.
Claims8
A rerailer adapted to allow a model motor-driven vehicle having an electric motor which is provided electric power via a pair of electrically-conductive wheels to become properly disposed on a pair of spaced-apart electrically-conductive rails so that a large diameter section of each wheel is adjacent an inner side of a respective one of the rails, the rerailer comprising:
- (a) a rerailer base;
- (b) a first conductor disposed on said rerailer base and having a first end and a second end, said first conductor having a flat electrically-conductive upper surface with a width tapering from said second end to said first end, said first end of said first conductor disposed adjacent to and in electrical contact with a first one of said pair of rails;
- (c) a second conductor disposed on said rerailer base and having a first end and a second end, said second conductor having a flat electrically-conductive upper surface with a width tapering from said second end to said first end, said first end of said second conductor disposed adjacent to and in electrical contact with a second one of said pair of rails;
- (d) insulating means disposed on said rerailer base and disposed between said first conductor and said second conductor for electrically insulating said first conductor from said second conductor;
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- (f) guide means disposed on said rerailer base and disposed along said upper surface of said first conductor for guiding a first wheel of said pair of wheels along said upper surface of said first conductor and onto one of the pair of rails, and disposed along the upper surface of said second conductor for guiding a second wheel of said pair of wheels along the upper surface of said second conductor and onto the other of the pair of rails as the vehicle powered by the electric motor moves from said second ends to said first ends of said first and second conductors.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.