Track or method for aligning a rail track section
AssigneeBWG Butzbacher Weichenbau GmbH
InventorsAlfred Kais, Burkhard Zillien, Sebastian Benenowski
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Abstract
The invention relates to a track with rail track section (10) which differs from the usual basic layout. In order to check changes in track layout in a simple manner, the invention provides that the rail track section (10) has a cutout (24) running parallel to the basic layout in a longitudinal direction of the track. When the rail track section is placed parallel to the basic layout, the layout of said cutout is inversely the same as that of the desired change in layout.
Claims12
A rail having a centerline and comprising first and second rail portions and a third rail portion between said first and second rail portions, the centerline of said first rail portion being collinear with the centerline of said second rail portion and the centerline of said third rail portion being curved, said third rail portion including a longitudinal cutout having an edge parallel to and spaced apart from the linear centerline of said first rail portion.
A method of altering the course of a rail track section comprising the steps of:
- providing a linear section of rail track having a centerline and first and second longitudinal side edges;
- selecting a first portion of said linear rail section for making a course correction;
- determining a desired curvature for said centerline along said first portion;
- making along said first portion a longitudinal cutout having an edge with a curvature inverse to said desired curvature;
- and,
- bending said first portion until said cutout edge is parallel to the linear centerline of said rail track.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.