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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7201106 | Hydrostatic hi-rail system A hydrostatic hi-rail system for use with a railway maintenance vehicle to allow travel along railway rails by raising the vehicle off of road-engaging tires onto rail-engaging flanged rail wheels. The operator controlled system includes front and rear lift assembli... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7118384 | Model train coupling with integrated electrical contact A coupling for connecting model cars of a model train includes an integrated resilient contact supported by a first coupling member disposed against a mating electrical connector of a second coupling member. The first and second coupling members are configured to be... | 10/10/2006 |
| RE38990 | Magnetically-actuated coupler for model railroad cars A magnetically actuated coupling and uncoupling system for model railroads comprised of a drawbar pivotally-mounted to one end of a railroad car, wherein the drawbar contains an integral leaf spring extending from the first end of the coupler to tend to center the d... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6997520 | Control and communication system for railway trains The system utilizes two bi-directional transmission lines which extend parallel to and spaced form one another along the train; a control unit operating as a main unit installed on the main engine is connected to the transmission lines and to brake control systems o... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6390314 | Automatic trolley clamp lock The present invention provides systems and methods that reduce the number of mis-routed trolleys in an AGV system. The invention provides a solenoid driven automatic coupling for coupling a trolley to an AGV. When an AGV arrives at a particular preprogram... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6206215 | Rail car coupler Disclosed herein is improvement of the standard Type-E or Type-F coupler, which is compatible with the existing standard couplers, for providing automatic uncoupling features. The improved coupler includes a coupler head of the type having standard coupli... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6199709 | Actuating device The invention relates to an actuating device (1), in particular a drive (2), preferably for sequences of motion in the field of model building, with at least one magnetic field producing component (11, 32), in particular a coil (12, 33), for producing a m... | 03/13/2001 |
| 5509546 | Magnetically-actuated coupler for model railroad cars A magnetically actuated coupling and uncoupling system for model railroads comprised of a drawbar pivotally-mounted to one end of a railroad car, wherein the drawbar contains an integral leaf spring extending from the first end of the coupler to tend to c... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5503280 | Timed thrust uncoupling mechanism for passenger transit type railway cars An improved coupler control circuit board which can be positioned in an environmentally protected location for controlling an uncoupling operation of a mechanical type coupler mechanism utilized to connect adjacently disposed ends of a pair of passenger t... | 04/02/1996 |
| 5152410 | Electro-pneumatic coupler control system for ensuring the safe uncoupling of railway vehicles An automatic car coupler control system for a railway train consisting of at least one powered car and at least two nonpowered cars. An electrical switch and a timer carried by the nonpowered car following the powered car is connected to a voltage source ... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5139161 | Automatic actuator for coupler knuckle-assembly of a railway passenger car A linkage-actuator for the coupler knuckle-assembly of a railway passenger car which is mounted on the coupler head directly adjacent to the knuckle-assembly, which linkage-actuator does not extend along the shank connecting the knuckle-assembly to the ca... | 08/18/1992 |
| 4049128 | Control system for automatic railway car coupler An electro-pneumatic control system for effecting coupling and uncoupling action of automatic rapid transit type car couplers in a manner which assures that fluid pressure lines are cut off and that electrical contacts are disconnected before actual physi... | 09/20/1977 |
| 3942648 | Model railway system providing uncoupling and delayed recoupling This invention relates to a model railway system employing a novel uncoupling mechanism for couplers of the type which are coupled by having one coupler cam another upward so that it may then drop into the coupled relationship. Couplers of this type, equi... | 03/09/1976 |
