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Tech/Engineering - Automotive / Cars & Trucks / trams | | Dutch term or phrase: langsmeename | | De langsmeename van het draaistel wordt gerealiseerd door langsmeenamestangen tussen rijtuigbak en de uiteinden van de wiegbalk. Onder de wiegbalk bevindt zich in het hart van het draaistel een langsmeenamebok, die elastisch met het draaistel verbonden is. |
| | | catch (rod) | Explanation:
http://www.du.edu/~etuttle/rail/lock.htm
It is not necessary to mechanically interfere with the motion of the lever itself; it is fully sufficient to prevent the catch dog from being withdrawn from the quadrant. This idea dates from 1867, and is due to Easterbrook. Also, the motion of the catch rod when the catch handle is depressed and released can be used to drive the interlocking. Since this motion occurs at the beginning and the end of the lever motion, early and late motion is perfectly assured. Indeed, the locking is actuated before the lever makes any motion at all. Saxby ingeniously arranged for this by means of the link, or rocker, that is moved by the catch rod. When the lever is normal, depressing the catch handle moves the rear end of the link up, providing the first half of the motion. Then, the centre of curvature of the link slot is the same as that of the lever. As the lever is moved from normal to reverse, the link does not move at all. When the catch handle is released and the catch rod moves downward again, the front of the link is further depressed and the final half of the motion takes place.
http://www.signalbox.org/branches/pw/gwinterlocking.pdf#sear...
CATCH RODS.
(a) Where there are no spare levers a spare catch rod must be provided.
(b) Where catch rods are provided fitted with contact pieces an additional catch rod of that
pattern must also be kept in the signalbox.
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Note added at 20 mins (2006-08-20 17:53:52 GMT)
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Possibly 'lateral catch rod', although this is not supported by google hits. |
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Local time: 23:20
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17 mins confidence:   catch (rod)
Explanation:
http://www.du.edu/~etuttle/rail/lock.htm
It is not necessary to mechanically interfere with the motion of the lever itself; it is fully sufficient to prevent the catch dog from being withdrawn from the quadrant. This idea dates from 1867, and is due to Easterbrook. Also, the motion of the catch rod when the catch handle is depressed and released can be used to drive the interlocking. Since this motion occurs at the beginning and the end of the lever motion, early and late motion is perfectly assured. Indeed, the locking is actuated before the lever makes any motion at all. Saxby ingeniously arranged for this by means of the link, or rocker, that is moved by the catch rod. When the lever is normal, depressing the catch handle moves the rear end of the link up, providing the first half of the motion. Then, the centre of curvature of the link slot is the same as that of the lever. As the lever is moved from normal to reverse, the link does not move at all. When the catch handle is released and the catch rod moves downward again, the front of the link is further depressed and the final half of the motion takes place.
http://www.signalbox.org/branches/pw/gwinterlocking.pdf#sear...
CATCH RODS.
(a) Where there are no spare levers a spare catch rod must be provided.
(b) Where catch rods are provided fitted with contact pieces an additional catch rod of that
pattern must also be kept in the signalbox.
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Note added at 20 mins (2006-08-20 17:53:52 GMT)
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Possibly 'lateral catch rod', although this is not supported by google hits.
| Jack den Haan
Netherlands
Local time: 23:20
Works in field
Native speaker of:  Dutch, English
PRO pts in category: 68
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