ELECTRIC RAIL BOND Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; track circuits.

SUBSTANCE: proposed rail bond consists, minimum, of one flexible conductor whose ends are secured in tubular tips welded to fastening plates. Flexible conductor is arc-shaped, and tubular tips are welded at acute angel or parallel to vertical axis passing through center of arc of flexible conductor. Free edge of each fastening plate can be bent though acute or right angel relative to its surface. Length of bent edge of fastening plate is commensurable with height of side face of rail head. Flexible conductor can be made of steel-and-copper cable containing 5-70 mass % of copper.

EFFECT: improved operation reliability.

4 cl, 2 dwg