Integral train guidance system: “central rolling guide box”

An integral train guidance system comprising at least three mechanical assemblies making up a train guidance transport infrastructure, said mechanical assemblies including:

• a guide track defining first and second spaced apart and opposing guideways each having a limiting wall;
• a central rolling guide box sized to be positioned between said guideways and having rotary wheels opposing each of said limiting walls of said guide track;
• and
• a wheel anchoring and orientation cylinder for securing said central rolling guide box to a vehicle,
• wherein the first and second spaced apart and opposing guideways are two I-shape steel profiles each having upper and lower wings, each wing having a length the same as a length of the limiting wall,
• whereby the guide track provides vertical and horizontal support for anti-derailing and anti-tilt mechanisms of the rolling guide box in a single element and provides maximum resistance to torsion and bending stresses,
• wherein a verticality of the limiting wall of the track profile is achieved through a support provided by four steel stops including two on each of a first and a second transverse joist of a trapezoid or triangular cross-section that are seated horizontally on the first and second transverse joists and vertically on an outer face of the guide track whereby two parallel and vertical devices allow the guide track to be accurately and rapidly adjusted on a rolling platform.

An integral train guidance system comprising at least three mechanical assemblies making up a train guidance transport infrastructure, said mechanical assemblies including:

• a guide track defining first and second spaced apart and opposing guideways each having a limiting wall;
• a central rolling guide box sized to be positioned between said guideways and having rotary wheels opposing each of said limiting walls of said guide track;
• and
• a wheel anchoring and orientation cylinder for securing said central rolling guide box to a vehicle,
• wherein said wheel anchoring and orientation cylinder is a dual-effect mechanism including:
• a) an anchoring or attachment of the central rolling guide box to the vehicles, and
• b) an orientation of the wheels, and
• c) a central bore for the pivoting axis, which is centred by means of two axial bearings, at the lower end of said bore there is a flange for bolting to the upper plate of the rolling box, such that the latter rotates along with the cylinder around the pivoting axis.

An integral train guidance system comprising at least three mechanical assemblies making up a train guidance transport infrastructure, said mechanical assemblies including:

• a guide track defining first and second spaced apart and opposing guideways each having a limiting wall;
• a central rolling guide box sized to be positioned between said guideways and having rotary wheels opposing each of said limiting walls of said guide track;
• and
• a wheel anchoring and orientation cylinder for securing said central rolling guide box to a vehicle,
• wherein the central rolling guide box acts as an interface between the guide track and the guided vehicle,
• wherein the central rolling guide box is a modular structure including a set of four wheels or rollers with internal axial bearings, vertical axes of which are attached to yokes located at ends of two horizontal steel bars or shafts crossing or articulated via a central shaft as diagonals of a square or rectangle, said square or rectangle positioned between two rectangular steel plates holding five vertical shafts of the rolling box including one central shaft and four guide wheel shafts,
• wherein the guide wheels including two on either side protrude laterally various centimeters from the steel plates including upper and lower plates and rest tangentially on the limiting wall of the parallel I-shape profiles that make up the guide track,
• whereby, with a height of the central rolling guide box less than that of the limiting wall of the track profiles, the central rolling guide box is anchored centrally below the vehicle at an equal distance from the supporting wheels.

An integral train guidance system comprising at least three mechanical assemblies making up a train guidance transport infrastructure, said mechanical assemblies including:

• a guide track defining first and second spaced apart and opposing guideways each guideway having a limiting wall and opposing flanges connected to the limiting wall, wherein the limiting wall and the opposing flanges form a channel shape, wherein the first and second spaced apart and opposing guideways are I-shape profiles each profile having upper and lower wings, each wing having a length the same as a length of the limiting wall, and wherein the lower wings of the profiles fit into recesses made in wings of two I-shape steel joists, oriented in parallel, with a separation between the limiting walls and located perpendicular to the guide track;
• a central rolling guide box sized to be positioned between said guideways and having rotary wheels opposing each of said limiting walls of said guide track and rollers arranged and configured to engage the opposing flanges, whereby tilting of the central rolling guide box is minimized;
• and
• a wheel anchoring and orientation cylinder for securing said central rolling guide box to a vehicle.