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Train car compensator for platform gap spacing

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-06-12
DRAGO JOSEPH J
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Only through the actions of personal injury lawyers in the past few years have the inadequacies of platform and train design been revealed as the major cause of these accidents—almost all of them, tragically, resulting in major and significant injuries, and occasionally deaths.
This gap varies in size but may be quite significant, especially if the station platform or the apparatus to the platform is curved.
The gap between the train and the station platform poses a danger to the boarding and alighting passengers who may accidentally fall partially or entirely into the gap.
The danger is especially great with respect to elderly, handicapped, and young passengers.
By and large, the response of the industry has been that “Solutions could take a long, long while”.

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[0015]Recognizing that some of the train passengers may be vision impaired and not able to clearly see a written warning or a highlighted color area near a platform's edge, and recognizing further that other passengers may be hearing-impaired and not able to hear or understand a spoken warning, the embodiments of the present invention operate to offer their protection independently of the ability of the passenger to register the train station's intended alert. At the same time, the embodiments serve to operate substantially simultaneously with those energizations and controls of the train itself in opening and closing its passenger doors. Thus, in the invention, contemporaneous with the actions of the train's engineer or conductors to open the doors, the control signals generated slide metal landing plates out from the body of the train underneath the doors, to extend to the platform—thereby closing the gap spacing (which otherwise could extend from some 2 inches to as much as 15 in...

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[0017]In FIG. 2, cables 30 can be included within the metal sheeting of the sides of the car and springs 40 may be employed to assist in dropping the plate 14 via a hinge 18 into position. In its operation, as the doors open, the tension on the plate is released and the plate 14 drops into position. The springs put pressure on the plate to start the plate downwardly on its initial descent. The weight of the plate 14 carries it down fully, along the cable path 35—and once the doors close, the procedure is reversed and the plate is pulled up. As with the embodiment of FIGURE la, the cables 30—or like connectors—would be activated by the same signaling energized by the train's engineer or conductors to control the door openings. (As will be noted both FIGS. 1a and 2 illustrate the compensating plate in its deployed position.)

[0018]As will be appreciated by those skilled in the art, it is but a simple matter to retrofit existing trains to implement the teachings of the invention. The en...

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Abstract

Compensating landing plates automatically deploy from a subway or railroad car as its doors open in spanning any gap spacing between the car and a station platform where the car stops.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]A Provisional Patent Application covering the invention described herein was filed Dec. 7, 2006, and assigned Ser. No. 60 / 873,243.STATEMENT REGARDING FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT[0002]Research and development of this invention and Application have not been federally sponsored, and no rights are given under any Federal program.REFERENCE TO A MICROFICHE APPENDIX[0003]NOT APPLICABLEBACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0004]1. Field of the Invention[0005]This invention relates to manners of avoiding injuries to passengers boarding and alighting from subway and railroad cars, in general, and to compensations for existing gap spacings in platform constructions,in particular.[0006]2. Description of the Related Art[0007]Injuries to train passengers as a result of platform gap spacing has come more-and-more to the forefront. Such injuries were previously derided as resulting from the passenger's own carelessness in not noting the gaps that e...

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IPC IPC(8): B61D47/00
CPCB61B1/02
Inventor DRAGO, JOSEPH J.
Owner DRAGO JOSEPH J
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