RAILWAY TRACTION VEHICLE WITH AUTOMATIC CONTROL OF POSITION OF BOGIES AND WHEELSETS IN CURVED SECTIONS OF TRACK (VERSIONS) Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC B61F5/38 B61F5/48 

FIELD: railway transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to design of devices intended for automatic control of bogie and wheelset turning when negotiating curvilinear sections of track. Proposed traction vehicle with automatic control of position of bogies and wheelsets has body or frame with automatic couplers, traction bogies with wheelsets, axle boxes and axle-box links. Bogie has two pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders arranged at different sides relative to control bracket 6. Rods 32 of cylinders are hinge-connected with control bracket. Housing of cylinders and control bracket are secured on bogie or body, or frame. Each rod is furnished with control slider 35 with spring 36 action valves of valve box 37 connecting rod spaces 30 of cylinders with pressure main line 41 and atmosphere or drain main line 42. Spaces of cylinders unlike relative to rods are interconnected by bypass pipelines 40. According to seconds design version, only one cylinder is coupled with control bracket.

EFFECT: provision of wheelset setting in chord position with simultaneous radial setting of wheelset axles.

4 cl, 8 dwg