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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 15, 2011
Filed:
May. 15, 2007
Andrew Lawrence Ruggiero, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
Andrew Lawrence Ruggiero, Lee's Summit, MO (US);
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A system is provided for aligning a railroad signal. The system includes at least one tilt device and at least one directional device to measure the respective tilt and direction of the railroad signal, and at least one controller coupled to the tilt device and the directional device. The controller is switchable between a calibration mode and a monitoring mode. Upon switching to the calibration mode, a correct tilt and correct direction of the railroad signal in a proper alignment is respectively measured and recorded in a memory of the controller. More particularly, upon recording the correct tilt and correct direction, the controller switches into the monitoring mode to determine if one of a measured tilt and a measured direction of the railroad signal exceeds a respective tilt threshold and direction threshold stored in the memory of the controller.