Voest-alpine Maschinenbau Gesellschaft M.b.h.

Franz Rotter

Gerald Durchschlag

Alfred Lang

Dieter Fritz

Heinz Kopilovitsch

Wolfgang Nayer

Heribert Quantschnigg

Erich Sattler

A device for determining the condition of railway switches or railway crossings by monitoring the end position of tongue rails (2), said device having a sensor (18) within the area of the theoretical frog point (17) of a frog (8), said sensor giving on occasion of a mechanical collision with the wheel flange or with the running surface of the wheel a signal indicating premature wear within the area of the frog.

Device for determining the condition of railway switches or railway

In a reversing device for movable parts of a railway switch within the deflection area of a railway switch, in particular tongue rails, monorail deflection device or movable stock rails, in which device the movable rails can be caused to contact rigid switch parts, the movable rails are supported in their contacting position by supporting rods extending in the longitudinal direction of the rail the supporting rods are slideably guided on the sleepers or, respectively, base plates in the longitudinal direction of the rails. In this case, the supporting rods are designed as adjusting members for the reversing operation and comprise thrust supports cooperating with thrust supports of the movable rails for shifting the rails. At least one of the mutually cooperating surfaces of the thrust supports of rail and/or of supporting rod is formed of a wedge surface passing over into a supporting surface extending in an essentially parallel relation to the longitudinal direction of the supporting rod. The supporting surface cooperates in the contacting position of the rail with the thrust support of the rail. This provides in a simple manner the possibility to reliably and exactly effect reversing operation for railway switches, in particular high speed switches having a great radius of curvature.

Reversing device for movable parts within the deflection area of a

In a reversing device for rails which are swivelable around a swivelling axis, or for movable frogs within the crossing area of a railway switch, the swivelable rails or, respectively, the movable frogs are supported in their position being in alignment with wing rails or, respectively, connecting rails or, respectively, being in contact with such rails by supporting ro)$

Reversing device for swivelable rails or movable frogs within the

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Zeltweg, Austria

Franz Rotter