Railways inventions 07/09

20090188406 - Railway scrap recovery vehicle: A railway vehicle recovers metallic objects like railroad spikes from a railway bed having a pair of rails. The vehicle includes wheels for riding on each rail and a carriage carrying a crawler for supporting the vehicle on the railway bed when one of the rails is removed. A pneumatic... Agent: Sand & Sebolt

20090173251 - Engine support system: A production apparatus includes a generally overhead track, a vertically adjustable link assembly supported from the track by one or more trolleys, a substantially horizontally oriented build beam attached to the link assembly opposite the track, a set of first and second cross beams extending from opposite sides of the... Agent: Kinney & Lange, P.A.

20090165665 - Safety entrance norm (sen): The walls in the Unity Platform System are installed all along the platform to match the position of the train doors; on the other hand for different model trains, two new systems which are installed completely free from the train doors have been proposed in the file. The doors with... Agent: Beem Patent Law Firm

20090165666 - Cable derailing prevention device for carrier/traction cables of cable car systems: The invention relates to a cable derailing prevention device for carrier/traction cables of cable car systems in an installation including: a carrier/traction cable; a multitude of rollers which flank a coupling rail and are located at the exit from the station; a multftude of clamps from which the driving means... Agent: K&l Gates LLP

20090165667 - Apparatus and method for electromagnetic levitation on an uncharged and non-magnetized arbitrary surface: Methods and systems for levitation on uncharged and non-magnetized arbitrary surface are disclosed. The system comprises a stack of conducting power plates, a high frequency high voltage (HFHV) source, a force feedback step-up transformer (FFST) and an uncharged and non-magnetized arbitrary surface. The secondary coils of the FFST charge a... Agent: Anthony Emeka Nwankwo