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US 7,597,052 B2Granted
Anticlimber for railroad vehicles
AssigneeSiemens Transportation Systems, Inc.
InventorsThomas Malfent, Andreas Rittenschober, Thomas Meissl, Martin Jüly
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Abstract
A rail vehicle comprising an anticlimber disposed in a vehicle end region and extending over substantially the entire width of the vehicle, wherein there is disposed, in the end region of the rail vehicle, at least one anticlimber element forming a partial vertical extension of the anticlimber, which anticlimber element is capable of engaging the anticlimber of another rail vehicle in the event of a collision.
Claims3
A rail vehicle comprising:
- an anticlimber disposed in an end region of the vehicle and extending over substantially an entire width of the rail vehicle, at least one anticlimber element disposed in said end region of said rail vehicle as a partial vertical extension of said anticlimber, which anticlimber element is capable of engaging an anticlimber of another rail vehicle in the event of a collision wherein at least one impact pillar is provided, whose longitudinal axis is substantially perpendicular to the plane of the rails on which the rail vehicle travels, said anticlimber element being disposed in the interior of said impact pillar, and wherein said at least one anticlimber element exhibits fins which, in the event of a collision with another rail vehicle, are capable of engaging the fins of an anticlimber on said other rail vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.