Vae Aktiengesellschaft

Vae Nortrak North America Inc.

Voest-alpine Maschinenbau Gesellshaft M.b.h.

Voest-alpine Zeltweg Gesellschaft M.g.h.

Johannes Rainer Oswald

Dieter Fritz

Hannes Gsodam

Peter Ernst Klauser

Eduard Guggenberger

Heinz Ossberger

Tommy Lee

Michael Brian Starkey

Gary David Click

Alan James Tuningley

The invention relates to a curve path of a switch comprising switch tongues, a main track and a branch track, which curve path from the beginning of the curve path to the end of the curve path is comprised of several portions having different curvatures 1/R, R being the radius of curvature, wherein the coefficient of curvature &agr;&equals;1/R/1/R at the beginning of the curve path (&agr; ) and at the end of the curve path (&agr; ) is selected to be &gE;0 and the point, or a region, in which &agr;&equals;1 is located at a relative distance &ngr;&equals;L/L &ne;0.5 from the beginning of the curve path, L being the distance from the beginning of the curve path and L being the length of the curve path.

Curve path of a switch, and track joint using this type of curve path

A railway crossing, sometimes referred to as a diamond crossing, has four substantially identical crossing beams which have cutouts made for a wide range of crossing angles. At least two separate base plates are cut to fit the required crossing angle and positioned beneath the crossing beams. Each crossing beam has a flangeway groove extending along at least a portion of the beam length and each beam has integral rail shaped ends for connection to a standard rail section. The crossing beams have top cutouts and bottom cutouts that intersect and are set for a predetermined crossing angle. Boltless locator pins prevent horizontal movement of the top and bottom beams on the plates, and elastic fasteners hold the top and bottom beams to the plates to restrict vertical movement between the top and bottom beams and the plates.

Railway diamond crossing

In a device for mounting in position guide rails (1), in which device the guide rail (1) is free of perforations and is seized by claws (3), which claws (3) are fixed in a mounting part, the mounting part has a mounting plate (2) extending in parallel relation to the longitudinal direction of the guide rail, noting that the claws (3) can be passed through perforations (16) in the mounting plate and can be braced against the mounting plate (2), in particular with the interposition of a spring (4), at the side, located opposite the guide rail (1), of the mounting plate (2).

Device for securing in position guide rails

In a railway switch comprising a frog having a movable main and auxiliary point, the main and auxiliary point are formed by using thick-web standard rail sections and asymmetric tongue profiles of smaller height as compared with the thick-web standard rail sections which are arranged as outer wing rails. The difference in height between the height of the main and auxiliary points and the height of the outer wing rails is greater than the height of the rail feet of the main and auxiliary points.

Railway switch comprising a frog having a movable main point and

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Zeltweg, Austria

Johannes Rainer Oswald