CURRENT COLLECTOR Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC B60L5/39 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to electrically driven vehicles comprising current collector interacting with third rail. Current collector comprises base with lever, spring and collector shoe arranged to come in contact with third rail. Current collector comprises one-way pneumatic cylinder and switch to interact with aforesaid lever. It comprises also insulator supporting collector shoe, mechanism to attach insulator to lever which can be detached from the latter, and element to cut off current collector in emergency. The latter element is fitted on aforesaid vase to interact with pneumatic cylinder rod. Current collector cut-off element represents a handle. Aforesaid lever is furnished with axle for it to be mounted on the base and represents parallelepiped, bracket with ribs and tube-like guide for axle. Two-position switch is arranged below pneumatic cylinder to interact with lever bracket. Springs are located in horizontal plane between current collector base and laver.

EFFECT: higher reliability.

7 cl, 3 dwg