Waggonfabrik Uerdingen A.g.

Aeg Westinghouse Transport-systeme Gmbh

Fritz Frederich

Christian Stiefel

Klaus Niemann

Christian Gunther

Joachim Korber

Regulation of the driving and braking of vehicles equipped with a plurality of single wheel drive and brake unit modules, controlled by control processing circuitry, that act on the guiding function of the wheels includes coupling in pairs control processing circuitry associated with the individual single wheel drive and brake unit modules, the pairs of modules being symmetrically disposed with respect to a plane of the vehicle. The degree of coupling is dynamically changed.

Driving and braking control of vehicles equipped with a plurality of

An apparatus for evacuating passengers from a passenger-carrying cabin having a floor suspended above the ground comprises upper and lower plates engageable over the upper and lower sides of a vertical hole through the floor. These plates are both secured tightly in place on the respective sides of the floor in a normal position and are released in an emergency position, with the lower plate dropping away from the car. A tubular life-saving chute is secured to the floor between the sides in the hole and is folded up between the plates in the normal position, but extends from the floor toward the ground in the emergency position to allow persons to be saved to slide down through this chute. A linkage normally rigidly interconnects the two plates together, but is operated in case of fire or the like to disconnect them.

Passenger evacuation apparatus

A suspended railway employs a suspension rail provided with two runway rails upon which respectively ride the first and second traveller wheel sections of a traveller from which a railway car, or the like, is suspended. A railway switch for the suspension rail has a stem section and two branch sections. Each of the two runway rails of the stem section also forms the outer runway rail of a respective one of the two branch sections. Each of the two branch sections furthermore has a respective inner runway rail. The inner runway rails of the two branch sections define together with the outer runway rails a switch gap over which one of the traveller wheel sections crosses unsupported as the traveller crosses the switch gap, so that in crossing the switch gap the traveller exhibits a tendency to tilt in a first direction towards the unsupported side of the traveller. An arrangement is provided for positively causing the traveller to tilt in the opposite second direction when crossing the switch gap to assure that upon the completion of the crossing of the switch gap the unsupported traveller wheel section will not be below the level of the runway rail onto which it is about to come into contact.

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Krefeld, Germany

Fritz Frederich