Suspension for a rail brake
AssigneeKnorr-Bremse Systeme FüR Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH
InventorsLothar Schmied, Matthias Kastner
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Abstract
The invention relates to a suspension for a rail brake on a bogie of a rail vehicle. A passive lifting device is provided which acts upon the rail brake according to the activation state thereof in such a way that said brake can be displaced between a lowered braking position and a lifted release position. In the release position, damping elements act between stoppers of the rail brake and the carriers of the bogie in such a way that transverse forces are reliably damped by virture of vibration or impact loads for instance. In the braking position, the lateral play required in said position is provided. The spring characteristics of the damping elements are configured in such a way that the two requirements can be met.
Claims17
A suspension for a rail brake on a bogie of a rail vehicle, comprising:
- one bogie frame respectively for each longitudinal side of the bogie, and
- passive lifting device fixed on the bogie frames and, as a function of its activation condition, moves the rail brake between a lowered braking position and a lifted release position;
- carriers on the bogie frames, being arranged to receive stoppers on the rail brake in the release position of the rail brake;
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- damping elements positioned between the stoppers of the rail brake and the carriers to damp forces transverse to a traveling direction of the rail vehicle occurring between the stoppers and the carriers in the release position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.