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Mountable Printable Placard With Headband
A resilient headband in a shape for being mounted on the head of the user. The headband is equipped with a longitudinal slotted member for holding a placard.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7775455 | Railway rail supporting pad An object of the invention is to provide a railway rail supporting pad that allows easy operations at a field site. In the invention, there is provided an outer bag made of a synthetic resin sheet housing a first inner bag and a second inner bag, the first inner bag... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7717352 | Rail seat A rail seat for rails having a lower patten provided on both sides with upper support surfaces, with a ribbed plate which is connected to a support by fastenings and with push-down elements for retaining the rail. The rail seat including an elastic intermediate plat... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7641129 | Rail damper A damper (18) for a rail (10), includes a deformable material (20) and an elongate resonant member (20, 24), the resonant member being of a stiff material as compared to the deformable material and being sized to exhibit a resonant freque... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7427035 | Rail damper A rail damper including an elongate damping device and a clip for supporting the damping device, the clip having a retention aperture for receiving part of the rail and, further, a recess adapted to receive the damper. This is particularly (although not exclusively)... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7374109 | Rail cushion assembly A rail cushion assembly including a resilient rail pad for placement against the lower surface of a railroad rail, and an underlying abrasion plate for placement against a railroad tie. The rail pad includes a pair of slots that extend through opposite end sloping e... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7331534 | Rail pad and method for strain attenuation An apparatus for use as a pad and for placement intermediate a rail and a railroad tie includes a plurality of geometrical recesses that extend into the pad, either at a normal longitudinal axis or at an angle other than normal. An elastomeric material is used to fo... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7278588 | Elastomeric railway tie pad An elastomeric member is arranged beneath a railroad tie to adjust the modulus of track over a relatively stiff structure such as a bridge or tunnel. Methods or combinations that include an elastomeric member are employed to reduce the modulus of a track over a rela... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7261244 | Tie plate An electrically-insulated tie plate for electrically isolating parts of a railroad rail system from each other. The electrically-insulated tie plate includes a base plate having a recessed area for receiving a railroad rail and a layer of electrically-insulating mat... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7234647 | Damping device for rails The invention relates to a damping means for damping acoustic vibrations on rails. This damping means is, in particular, a body made of plastics and ferrous materials. The damping means is characterized by a chamber filling body, which consists of a thermoplastic an... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7152807 | Pre-fastened rail pad assembly and method A rail pad assembly and an associated method for use with a concrete rail tie. The rail pad assembly includes a rail pad for engagement with a metal rail, a protective sheet for engagement with a concrete rail tie, and means for attaching the rail pad to the sheet i... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7100837 | Rail seat assembly A rail seat which includes a) a rail tie b) a pair of rail fastening support shoulders mounted on said rail tie so that a rail can be held to the tie between said shoulders each shoulder having a a rail face and si... | 09/05/2006 |
| 6649237 | Mat consisting of tubes A tube mat made of elastomer material in the form of an extrudate includes first and second front faces which are arranged in a vertical or angled manner in relation to the extrusion direction. A plurality of tubes extend in parallel in the extrusion dire... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6588677 | Rail boot An insulating rail boot encasing a rail embedded in concrete, asphalt or paver construction, including, shared right-of-way, dedicated right-of-way and at-grade crossing. The rail and the rail boot are secured in place by retaining clips. The rail boot ha... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6481637 | Rail pad and method for strain attentuation An apparatus for use as a pad and for placement intermediate a rail and a railroad tie includes a plurality of cylindrical recesses that extend into the pad. An elastomeric material is used to form the pad. The cylindrical recesses may include a tiered st... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6468631 | Elastic band-shaped base, specially track-bed matting Elastic band-shaped base (1) made of rubber or of a material similar to rubber for insulating and absorbing vibrations and impact sound, specially track-bed matting, wherein the base is fitted with spaced tubes (2, 3) running parallel to the ground side (... | 10/22/2002 |
| 6409092 | Superstructure construction A superstructure arrangement for a track comprising a rail fastened to a securing device such as a ribbed plate which is disposed above a concrete sleeper, with an intermediate layer extending between the sleeper and the securing device. The rigidity of t... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6402044 | Method of damping railroad noise and railroad noise damping members A method for reducing noises produced from a railroad when trains travel on rails. A vibration/noise damping member made of lead is fixed to the vertical rib portion of a rail, one side of a wheel, a joint bar for rails, or one side of a railroad overpass... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6390382 | Rail fixings A damper for reducing the track nose emitted by a rail system comprises a deformable material attachable to a surface of the rail, incorporating a plurality of elongate discontinuous resonant members of a stiff material as compared to the deformable mater... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6354512 | Polymer embedment of rails A method of making a polymer coated rail in which a rail to be coated (10) is positioned on a mould base (11) in an inverted manner, so that the head (12) of the rail is immediately adjacent the base plate (11). Then, mould side pieces (13, 14) are secure... | 03/12/2002 |
| 6342287 | Elastic pad, especially under-rail An elastic under-rail pad, made of an elastic plastic or rubber, has two opposite sides. At least one of its opposite sides presents a surface which at least partly is defined at least approximately by a simple sinusoidal or cosinusoidal trigonometric fun... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6325301 | Track support system In a device for supporting a rail fastened to a sole-plate resting on an anti-vibration pad, the sole-plate is urged towards the supporting structure by at least one adjustable prestressing resilient device acting on the sole-plate so as to apply a define... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6321657 | Rail transit system A monorail transit system includes transit drive units for supporting a transit car body on a beam and propelling the body along the beam. Improvements to the transit system include a quiet steel rail with vibration isolation for the beam, a vehicle braki... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6296195 | Rail system A rail arrangement includes a bullheaded rail having joint ties and a rail head, a rail bridge and a rail foot. There is a driving track made of concrete with an integrated joint, in which the rail is seated in connection with a substrate; as well as prof... | 10/02/2001 |
| 6283383 | Rail system The invention relates to a rail system (1) comprising a line of rails with fixations, cross ties (wood, concrete, etc.), an infrastructure (2) on which the cross ties are laid, as well as an elastomeric cross tie shoe, whose sidewall (7), which tapers upw... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6270017 | Polymer embedment of rails A method of making a polymer coated rail in which a rail to be coated (10) is positioned on a mould base (11) in an inverted manner, so that the head (12) of the rail is immediately adjacent the base plate (11). Then, mould side pieces (13, 14) are secure... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6253872 | Track soundproofing arrangement A noise control device for tracks (1) comprising sound-absorbing slabs (3) mounted at the rails (2) of the track (1), the slabs being supported on the rails (2) via elastic sections (5) and self-supportingly bridging the space between the rails (2). To im... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6234401 | Method of assembling rails and sleepers and track for trackbound vehicles Method and track when assembling rails and sleepers, the assembly being carried out with different degrees of resilient softness between rail and sleeper. The degrees of resilient softness are selected on the basis of a PN sequence.... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6170755 | Reduced radiated-noise rail The invention relates to a profiled rail (1), especially for a railway track, with a reduced total radiated noise level when in use. In order to reduce the noise radiation level, at least one web side surface (31) is substantially concavely rounded withou... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6079631 | Rail-fastening assembly A railway rail support assembly (3), for resiliently suspending a railway rail (1) above a track foundation (2) at discrete locations along the rail (1), has rail supporting means through which a predetermined clamping load is exerted on the said rail (1)... | 06/27/2000 |
| 6045052 | Rail tie fastening assembly An easily installed rail tie mounting assembly has a railroad rail which is supported by an inventive rail seat disposed on and supported by a concrete rail support member. The inventive rail seat consists of a elastometric rail pad and a non-corrodible m... | 04/04/2000 |
| 6027033 | Method and device for mounting track rails In a device for fixing a rail resting on a support by means of an anti-vibration pad, a prestress is applied to this pad so that the operating point of the anti-vibration pad (2) always remains in the region of linear behaviour of the said anti-vibration ... | 02/22/2000 |
| 6027034 | Superstructure construction A superstructure arrangement for a track comprising a rail fastened to a securing device such as a ribbed plate which is disposed above a concrete sleeper, with an intermediate layer extending between the sleeper and the securing device. The rigidity of t... | 02/22/2000 |
| 5842422 | Railway track In a vehicle track having longitudinal rail members positioned in parallel on either side of a track centerline and on which respective drive wheels and guide wheels of a vehicle move, the improvement including longitudinal rail members each having an asy... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5806764 | Track In a track whose rails are laterally and downwardly supported on the rail outer side and on the rail inner side via elastic intermediate inserts (4, 6) by longitudinal carriers underneath the head portion (3), the rails (2) extend at a distance above the ... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5738279 | Elastic track foundation An elastic, essentially plate-shaped track foundation consists of closed-pored foamed and crosslinked rubber material, preferably EPDM rubber. The foaming and crosslinking preferably is performed in one working step.... | 04/14/1998 |
| 5725149 | Support device for railway rails A support device has a boot 2 made of elastic material, having a bottom 3 and a peripheral sidewall 4 attached to the bottom and extending upwardly therefrom. The boot is configured to envelop a crosstie 1 from the base thereof up to a predetermined heigh... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5671685 | Acoustic barrier, particularly for railway superstructures The acoustic barrier, particularly for railways, comprises at least a first sound-proofing member (2), arranged at the sides of a train (3) proximate to at least each bogie (4), and at least a second sound-proofing member (5) arranged on the supporting pl... | 09/30/1997 |
| 5551631 | Rail support device for unballasted railway track Rail support device for unballasted railway track comprising at least one concrete block resting on a flexible base, the assembly being held in an elastomeric shell which is anchored in a bed or mortar covering the lower part of said block, and which has ... | 09/03/1996 |
| 5361986 | Arrangement for laying rail In an arrangement for laying rail in a railroad track over which railway cars travel, the rails (1) include a lower base flange (1a) and an upper rail head (1b). A molded elastic bearing part (5) is positioned between the lower support member (4) and an u... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5346131 | Device for supporting rails Device for supporting rails in a railroad track for rail-borne vehicles includes a support plate (3) positioned on a support bed (6) with profiled surfaces on the support plate and the support bed having upwardly extending flanks (4a, 7a, 5a, 8a) forming ... | 09/13/1994 |
