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US 9,873,988 B2Granted
Rail arrangement
AssigneeDaetwyler Sealing Technologies Deutschland GmbH
InventorsBernd Pahl, Tobias Toczkowski
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Abstract
A rail arrangement for rail vehicles furnished with flanged wheels. To reduce the risk of accident existing in connection with grooved rails, particularly for cyclists and pedestrians, a rail arrangement is provided including a. a rail (2) having a rail head (3), a rail web (4) and a rail base (5), the rail head (3) having a drive rail (6), a guide rail (7) and a rail groove (8) lying therebetween; and b. a filler profile (9) arranged in the rail groove (8).
Claims21
A rail arrangement (1) for rail vehicles furnished with flanged wheels, comprising
- a. a rail (2) comprising a running rail (6) with a running rail head (16), a guide rail (7) with a guide rail head (17), a rail foot (5), and a rail web (4) connecting the running rail (6) and the guide rail (7) with the rail foot (5), wherein the guide rail (7) is provided on one side of the running rail (6) defining a flange groove (8) between the running rail (6) and the guide rail (7), the flange groove (8) having an upper end with a groove opening (23) and a lower end with a groove bottom (24), and wherein the rail (2) has a rail height HS, the flange groove (8) has a groove depth TR and the groove depth TR amounts to at least 35% of the rail height HS, and
- b. a filler profile (9) arranged in the flange groove (8), wherein the filler profile (9) features an upper part A and a lower part B, and wherein the lower part B can be elastically deformed and the upper part A has a greater hardness and/or rigidity than the lower part B.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.