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US 6,158,697 AGranted
Railroad frog assembly with latch holdback
AssigneeABC Rail Products Corporation
InventorsKeith Young, Stephen R. Kuhn
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Abstract
A railroad frog assembly is provided with a spring wing rail latch holdback subassembly that continuously retains the spring wing rail in a spring wing rail fully open position when activated by the wheels of a railcar traversing the frog assembly, and that automatically deactivates the latch holdback subassembly and releases the spring wing rail from retention in an open condition and for complete closing after the last railcar wheel has passed through the frog assembly.
Claims3
A railroad trackwork frog assembly comprising:
- a frog fixed point element;
- a frog base plate element,
- a frog spring wing rail element that may be flexed laterally from a closed position abutting said frog fixed point element to an open condition separated from said frog fixed point element by a minimum distance equal to the width of a railcar wheel flange;
- a single-stop position ratchet latch holdback subassembly coupled to said frog spring wing rail element and to said frog base plate element, and continuously retaining said frog spring wing rail element in the spring wing rail element fully open condition when activated;
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- control means selectively deactivating said single-position ratchet latch holdback subassembly,
- said control means deactivating said single-stop position ratchet latch holdback subassembly following the passing of the last railcar wheel of each train passing through the frog assembly to thereby initiate spring return of the spring wing rail element from a fully open condition to a closed condition.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.