US3650216A - Railway car speed control transportation system - Google Patents
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- Controls are included for varying, in response to external signals, the angular position of selected reaction wheel assemblies to bring a car smoothly to a stop at a predetermined point, to bring a car past a particular point at a predetermined speed at a predetermined time, to insert a car from a side path into a gap in traffic on a main path, or to selectively delay cars to create gaps in the traffic to accept cars from a branch path.
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- ATTORN E Y5 RAILWAY CAR SPEED CONTROL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION To meet the demands of some transportation systems it is necessary to use a large number of small cars or carriers rather than a few large carriers or trucks. For example, in handling passenger luggage in an airport it is desirable to be able to directly and promptly transport each piece of luggage to its destination without waiting for a larger load or using a carrier that must stop at each of a number of stations along its route. Small individually driven and directed cars offer the greatest flexibility in transporting such luggage between selected stations of the systems.
- One of the requirements in such a system is the accurate control of the car speed over various portions of its travel and accurate, shock free positioning of the car for various operations such as loading, unloading, elevating or synchronizing the car movement with that of other cars when moving from a branch track or pathway onto a heavily traveled main line, track or pathway.
- a drive tube and reaction wheel propulsion system by controlling the angular position of each of the reaction wheels which are spaced along the track and which cooperate with a constant speed rotating drive tube, mounted on and extending lengthwise along the under side of the car.
- the drive tube is driven by an electric motor energized through a brush contacting a third rail.
- the reaction wheels are journaled in fixed supports.
- reaction wheels are journaled on pivoted supports that can be moved to any position between a no drive position (reaction wheel axis parallel to the drive tube axis) and a full speed drive position.
- This arrangement while it depends on friction between the drive tube and reaction wheel, acts like a positive infinitely variable drive to accelerate the car if it tends to run slower or to decelerate or brake the car if it tends to run faster than the selected speed.
- FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a car as viewed from the right rear.
- FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a car as viewed from the left rear.
- FIG. 3 is a plan view of the frame of the car as seen from the line 33 of FIG. 4 to show the drive system in the car.
- FIG. 4 is a transverse elevation of the frame of the car and track as seen from the line 4-4 of FIG. 3.
- FIG. 4a is a fragmentary view showing an alternative alignment of a reaction wheel with respect to the drive tube.
- FIG. 5 is a sectional view of one end of the drive tube and its support taken along the line 55 of FIG. 4.
- FIG. 6 is a fragmentary view of an optional arrangement of a drive tube cooperating with a pair of reaction wheels to provide guidance for the car.
- FIG. 7 is an elevation of one of the running wheels of the car showing its pivotal mounting.
- FIG. 8 is a vertical section of the running wheel and its mounting taken along the line 8-8 of FIG. 7.
- FIG. 9 is a diagrammatic view of car switch cam follower mechanism carried in the car.
- FIG. 10 is a plan view of a section of track including a switch and cam that cooperates with the switching cam follower mechanism shown in FIG. 9.
- FIG. 10a is a side view of an elevating cam positioned along the track resetting the cam follower on the car as seen from the line l0A-10A of FIG. 10.
- FIG. 11 is a fragmentary plan view of a section of track and a power driven reaction wheel.
- FIG. 12 is a plan view of a section of track showing pivotally mounted reaction wheels including means for positioning a car.
- FIG. 13 is a plan view of a section of track including means for controlling the advance of a car according to a prescribed speed and timing.
- FIG. 14 is a diagrammatic view of a merging switch illustrating one use for the car speed and positioning control shown in FIG. 12.
- FIG. 15 is a diagrammatic view of a section of track in which speed control is used to collect the cars into groups.
- the novel propulsion system is shown as used to drive individual cars of a luggage transporting system such as may be used in an airport.
- An individual car is shown in FIGS. I and 2.
- the car comprises a body I that is uniquely shaped to receive the ordinary types of luggage commonly encountered.
- the forward end of the car, the right end as seen in FIG. 1 is formed with a pair of upstanding hollow boxlike portions 2 and 3 closed at the top and sides and cooperating to form therebetween a recess 4 adapted to receive one end of a duffel bag or similar article.
- the other end of the duffel bag is carried in a cradle or valley formed by sloping top portions 5 and 6 of a boxlike section 7 extending transversely across the rear of the car.
- Ordinary suitcases and similar articles are carried in the middle of the car, such articles resting on an inclined surface 8 extending downwardly from the left side of the car at an angle of approximately 20 to 25.
- a steeply inclined surface 9 extending downwardly from the left-hand side of the car meets this surface 8 at substantially a right angle to thus form a generally V-bottomed receptacle for suitcases.
- the rear end wall of the boxlike portions 2 and 3 toward the front of the car and the front vertical wall of the rear boxlike section 7 form vertical fore and aft boundaries for the suitcase receiving portion of the car.
- luggage may be loaded from either side of the car. If loaded from the right-hand side the luggage is placed on the gently sloping inclined surface 8 and allowed to slide down until it comes to rest against the steep surface 9.
- Duffel bags and similar articles are loaded by placing one end in the recess 4 and the other end in the cradle formed by the inclined surfaces 5 and 6. If luggage is to be loaded from the left side of the car, it is lifted over the high side of the surface 9 so that the end of the suitcase rests against the surface 9 and it is then lowered until it comes to rest on the surface 8.
- Luggage is automatically discharged from the car at appropriate positions by tilting at least the body of the car to the right about a longitudinal axis through an angle of approximately 65 to 70 degrees so that the luggage slides off the inclined surface 8 onto a receiving conveyor.
- Duffel bags and golf club bags are oriented during the discharge operation since the rear end of such bags slides off the surface 6 before the other end can pull free from the recess 4. Thus such elongated articles are discharged lengthwise onto the receiving surface.
- the car is carried on flanged wheels 10 adapted to run on rails 11.
- FIGS. 3 and 4 The chassis of the car is shown in FIGS. 3 and 4.
- the chassis itself includes a generally rectangular frame 12 which may be built of tubing or rolled sections.
- the wheels 10 are individually mounted from the frame 12.
- the frame 12 has outriggers 13 provided with shear blocks 14 that are connected to ribs 15 of the car body.
- the shear blocks 14 serve to isolate the body of the car from the vibrations generated by contact between the wheels 10 and rails 11.
- the frame also carries a longitudinally extending rotatable drive tube 16 that is resiliently supported from the frame 12 by resilient mounting means 17 attached to the end sections of the frame 12.
- the drive tube 16 is tapered at each end, the end further being formed with a reentrant portion 18 adapted to receive the outer races of a pair of ball bearings 19.
- the inner races of the ball bearings 19 are carried on a stub shaft 20 projecting horizontally from the lower end of a cylindrical member 21 that extends upwardly in telescoping relation with a tube 22.
- the tube 22 is mounted with shear blocks 23 to the end member of the frame 12.
- the drive tube 16 is driven through a belt 26 from a drive motor 27 mounted in the frame 12 of the car. While not shown in detail the belt 26 may be an ordinary V belt or a toothed timing belt.
- the corresponding groove in the drive tube 16 is of such a depth that the exterior of the belt is substantially flush with or slightly recessed below the external surface of the drive tube 16.
- FIG. 4 shows the general arrangement of the parts of the chassis and drive particularly as to their vertical relationship.
- the tube mounting 17 for the drive tube 16 is inclined from a vertical line so as to be generally normal to the line of centers of the drive tube 16 and the motor 27. This inclination is selected so that the belt can remain substantially constant as the cylindrical member 21 slides up and down the tube 22 to accommodate variations in height of various reaction wheels, such as the wheel 30, spaced along the track.
- Each of the wheels 30 is journaled in a small stand 31 erected from a crosstie 32 carrying the rails 11.
- each of the reaction wheels is preferably a small rubber tired wheel carried on radial thrust bearings from a stationary axle 33 mounted in the stand 31.
- the allowable travel of the cylindrical member 21 in the sleeve 22 is such that as the rotating drive tube 16 approaches one of the reaction wheels 30 the tapered forward end engages and rotates'the reaction wheel as it climbs onto the wheel compressing the spring 24 in what ever amount is required.
- the springs '24 one at each end of the drive tube, push the tube down onto the reaction wheels with sufficient force so that the frictional contact between the wheel and the drive tube provides sufficient force to drive the car.
- the speed at which a car passes one of the reaction wheels is determined by the speed of rotation of the drive tube 16, which is normally held fixed since it is driven by the constant speed motor 27, and the angle between the axis of the drive tube and the axis of rotation of the reaction wheel, as measured in a horizontal plane, i.e., the angle between the horizontal projections of the two axes.
- This angle may vary from zero, the condition when the axes are parallel, which provides for zero speed to an angle of about 45 to 50 in which case the speed of the car along the tracks is equal to or greater than the peripheral speed of the drive tube 16.
- FIG. 4 the center of the reaction wheel 30 is shown as being vertically beneath the center of the drive tube 16.
- a counterclockwise rotating drive tube 16A cooperates with a reaction wheel 30A so positioned that a vertical line through the reaction wheel passes between the descending side of the drive tube and its axis of rotation.
- the line of force between the tube and wheel is inclined so that the horizontal component of the force urging tube against to the wheel offsets the tangential force between the tube and wheel as the tube drives the wheel.
- the stand 31A is set on a wedge or tipped so that a line normal to the axis of the drive tube and the axis of rotation of the reaction wheel passes through the center of the reaction wheel.
- a dual reaction wheel assembly may be used as illustrated in FIG. 6.
- a second reaction wheel is provided to cooperate with a first reaction wheel the two wheels being offset from each other laterally of the direction of motion of the car as shown by the position of wheels 3013 in FIG. 6.
- the wheels thus form a shallow V in which a drive tube 168 rests.
- This arrangement of the drive tube carried in the car and cooperating with reaction wheels positioned along the trackway is particularly advantageous for operatorless cars in that the speed may be easily and accurately controlled by means in each section of track and the same speed control is applied to each car passing that section of track.
- each end of the car is provided with a substantial rubber cushion or bumper 34 to absorb the shock as two cars may come into contact with each other in normal operation along the track.
- the third rail assembly 40 preferably includes a first section 41 that extends along a trackway to supply the power and a second section 42 that is used just ahead of each of the switch points.
- These third rails 41 and 42 are preferably of a more or less standard construction in which a U-shaped conductor, in cross section, is partially enclosed in a U-shaped plastic or nonmetallic cover serving as a shield or insulator to protect the energized conductor from accidental contact.
- a brush assembly 43 depending from the frame 12 of the car has an insulating U-shaped portion which fits generally over the outer insulating portion of the third rail 41 and includes a tongue or brush that is forced into contact with the energized third rail.
- Two of these brush assemblies 43 are provided, one at each end of the car and located generally in line with the wheels 10, to span the breaks or gaps in the third rail 41 required at track switches to provide clearance for the wheels as they follow the switch track.
- locating the brushes generally in the transverse line with the wheels 10 maintains a relative constant spacing of the brushes and the third rail regardless of whether the car is operating on a straight track or on a sharp curve.
- a second brush assembly 44 cooperating with a second third rail 42 provides electrical connection to a solenoid 45 mounted, by means not shown, in the upper left-hand comer of the car as seen at the right in FIG. 4.
- each of the wheels 10 is provided with a hub section 50 fitted with ball bearings 51, 52 the inner races of which are mounted on a spindle 53.
- the spindle 53 is welded or otherwise fastened to a king pin 54 the upper and lower ends of which are fitted with resilient bushings 55 pressed or formed in brackets 56 and 57 bolted to a mounting pad 58 as indicated in FIG. 3.
- a brush holder 59 is also mounted on the king pin 54 to hold a brush assembly, the brush of which rides on a polished surface 60 of the wheel hub 50 to provide a return circuit for the motor 27 through the wheel 10 and the rail 1 1.
- the axis of the king pin be precisely vertical, i.e., normal to the track. This is in contrast to ordinary construction in which the king pin in inclined slightly so that the axis of the pin intersects the road surface ahead of the center of pressure of the wheel whereby a caster effect is obtained.
- a car approaching from the left is, if it is to pass straight through, forced to its right by external means to be described, so that the flanges of its right-hand wheels pass through the gap between the bottom rail 11 and the corresponding switch rail 11A. If the car is to follow the siding or branch line it is forced to the left as it approaches and enters the switching area so that its right-hand wheels follow the switch rail 11A. Plates 62 are provided in the switching areas to support the flanges of the wheels 10 as the wheels cross the gaps in the track.
- the switching of the car at each switch point is controlled automatically.
- address information is encoded in a magnet plate 65 mounted in the lower front left-hand side of the car as shown at the right in FIG. 4.
- This magnetic address plate 65 incorporates a number of rods of high retentivity magnetic material that is magnetized in a particular pattern corresponding to the address to which the luggage on the car is to be delivered.
- This magnetizing is preferably done by a group of electromagnets mounted in the trackway at the loading station as is indicated by the rectangle 66 marked ENCODER in FIG. 4.
- a reader is mounted in the trackway in a position corresponding to the encoder 66.
- the reader comprises a plurality of reed switches, not shown, which through a decoding circuit closes a switch to energize the third rail 42 and solenoid 45 if the car is to follow the siding rather than the main track.
- the cars are normally conditioned to follow the left-hand branch at each switch.
- the reed switches in the reading circuit close the circuits to energize the solenoid 45.
- it When it is energized it operates a linkage shown in FIG. 9 (see also FIG. 4) to raise a cam roller 67 on a left-hand side of the car to the right as shown in FIG. 4 viewing the front end of the car) and lower a cam roller 68 at the right front corner of the car.
- the linkage from the solenoid 45 includes a tension link 68 connected between a plunger 69 of the solenoid 45 and a guide rod 70 vertically slidable in a tubular guide 71 on the frame 12 of the car.
- the cam follower roller 67 is mounted on the lower end of the guide rod 70 in position to cooperate with a left turn cam 72 mounted along the left-hand side of the trackway as indicated in FIG. 10.
- cams 72 and 81 are shown to cooperate with the cam followers 67 and 68, the followers may be positioned to cooperate with the adjacent rails, provided the followers can be located closely adjacent the wheels and the curves in the track are not too sharp. Otherwise it is difficult to locate the cam follower so that it will work on both a curved rail and a straight rail.
- the propulsion system in which the rotating drive tube is carried in the car and cooperates with reaction wheels located along the track allows additional power to be supplied directly to the reaction wheels. Such power is needed for climbing steep grades and at points where the car must be rapidly accelerated.
- FIG. 11 One method of applying additional power is illustrated in FIG. 11. As shown, a section of track including rails 85 and 86 are mounted on a cross tie 87 which supports a reaction wheel assembly 88 having a reaction wheel 89 that is driven by an electric motor 90 supplied with power through leads 91.
- a direct drive is illustrated, a flexible shaft, universal joints or a belt drive may be included in the drive so that the motor 90 may be located below the plane of the rails 85,86 and the reaction wheel 89.
- the speed and direction of the car past a particular reaction wheel is determined by the angle between the axis of rotation of the reaction wheel and the rotating drive tube in the car. If the speed of the car past a particular portion of track is to be the same for all cars at all times the brackets or stands carrying the reaction wheels may be fixed to the crossties at an angle selected according to the desired speed.
- a pivoted reaction wheel assembly 92 is provided with a first arm 93 that is connected through a link 94 to an air cylinder or similar linear motor device 95.
- the arm 93 is normally pulled to the high speed position by a spring 96 and is drawn to its low speed position by the linear motor 95 in response to an external signal applied through a control device 97.
- the control device 97 may be responsive to signals in the nature of railroad block signals in the event large spacing is required between cars, or it may be any type of a stop signal for a loading or unloading station or, in fact, any signal that requires a reduced speed of operation of the car.
- the reaction wheel assembly 92 has a second arm 98 which,
- a hook 99 adapted when extended to engage a depending lug or other member 100 on the car.
- the hook 99 is pivoted at the end of the arm 98 and is moved to the left or right by an air cylinder or similar linear motor 101.
- the linear motor or air cylinder 95 pivots the reaction wheel assembly 92 to a low speed position so that the car approaching the station is decelerated rapidly and advances at a slow or creeping pace. This continues until the depending member 100 engages the hook 99 at which time the forward creeping motion of the car pulls the arm 98 to rotate the reaction wheel assembly 92 into exact parallelism with track resulting in zero speed.
- link 102 having one end pivotally connected to an intermediate point of the arm 98 and that has, at its other end, a lost motion connection to a pin 103 on an arm 104 of the next reaction wheel assembly 105.
- ditional car detecting devices and linear motors may be provided for succeeding stations of the queuing line.
- a roller chain 110 passes around a course that includes five guide sprockets 111-115.
- the guide sprocket 112 is driven by drive chain 116 engaging a duplicate sprocket carried on the same shaft as the sprocket 1 12.
- the sprockets 112 and 114 are carried on fixed axles which also carry arms 117 and 118.
- the sprockets 111 and 115 are carried on the ends of arms 117 and 118 respectively.
- the arms 1 17 and 118 are connected with a drag link 119 which at its center is connected to an arm 120 of a reaction wheel assembly 121.
- the assembly is normally rotated to its zero speed position by a tension spring 122, the arm being stopped in or near the zero speed position by the engagement of the arm 120 with a stop 123.
- the chain 110 carries dogs 124, either of which may engage a depending member or lug 126 carried on each of the cars.
- the chain 110 carries dogs 124, either of which may engage a depending member or lug 126 carried on each of the cars.
- the chain 110 carries dogs 124, either of which may engage a depending member or lug 126 carried on each of the cars.
- dogs 124, 125 engages the lug 126 on the car.
- the chain between the sprockets 115 and 111 is retarded thus rotating the arms 117, 118 and 120.
- This rotation of the reaction wheel assembly 121 continues until the velocity of the car equals the velocity of the chain 110.
- FIG. 13 One example of the use of the structure shown in FIG. 13 is in advancing the cars into an elevator that lifts the cars one at a time from one level to another level.
- FIG. 14 shows the arrangement for advancing cars from a branch line onto a main line. As shown cars normally travel along a main line in the direction of the arrow 13]. Cars from a loading station or storage area approach along a branch line 132.
- a signal is delivered to a timer 134 which through controls similar to the control 97 sets the last station 135 to the stop condition.
- the car detector is located far enough from the junction of the main and branch tracks so that a car starting from rest at the station 135 may safely enter the main line ahead of a car just ready to pass the detector 133.
- the timer 134 is set to deliver a stop or hold signal to the control at the last station 135 for a time interval long enough for the car on the main line to reach the junction ahead of a car on the branch line that passes the last station 135 just after the timer times out and restores the station 135 to its go condition.
- the timer 134 is reset for a new timing interval each time the car detector 133 operates, regardless of whether or not a timing interval is in progress.
- the branch line may have a number of stations, interconnected as shown in FIG. 12, to accommodate a number of cars on the branch line until a break or gap in the traffic on the main line occurs.
- means may be employed to create such gaps. This may be done, as indicated in FIG. 15, by dividing the main track ahead of a junction into a series of zones including a high speed zone A, a deceleration zone B, and two consecutive variable length, variable speed zones C and D, the zone D extending to the car detector 133.
- a car detector 136 on the branch line 132 which detector may include a timer, indicates that a car is present and has waited a predetermined time, the first reaction wheel assembly in zone C is turned to a slow speed position. This provides the deceleration zone B, a minimum length low speed zone C and a long high speed zone D.
- zone D in sequence, at a rate slightly less than the high speed of a car, successive reaction wheel assemblies in zone D are moved to slow speed position thus extending zone C and shortening zone D. This continues until zone D vanishes. As soon as the leading car in the extended zone C reaches the end of that zone all of zones B, C and D are returned simultaneously to high speed operation.
- the signal to return to high speed operation may be generated in a car detector located at the end of extended zone C and controlling a signal circuit that is completed when the reaction wheel assembly at that point is in its low speed position and a car arrives at that point.
- This operation creates a gap or break in the main line traffic since any cars in zone D proceed at high speed without delay while any cars in zones B and C proceed at slow speed, thus opening up a gap between the last car in zone D and the leading car in zone C. If the low speed is half the high speed the maximum gap thus produced in the traffic flow downstream from zone D is equal to the combined lengths of zones C and D. Thus the car detector 133 should be located downstream from the end ofzone D by this distance.
- zone C and D may be quite long so that the created gaps are longer and a queue of cars from the branch line may enter each gap.
- the gap may be shortened when the maximum length is not needed by restoring zone C to high speed as the car detector 136 on the branch line indicates that the line is vacant.
- the sequential transfer from high to low speed and the simultaneous return to high speed is effected, for example, by employing a moving contact, such as a timed stepping switch, to sequentially energize a series of relays, each of which seals or latches in its on condition, one for each reaction wheel assembly in zones C and D.
- the relays either through solenoids or through solenoid valves are air cylinders pivot the reaction wheels to their slow positions.
- the reaction wheels are simultaneously returned to their high speed positions by breaking the relay holding circuit or unlatching the relays.
- Such control devices are well known and therefore not illustrated in the drawings.
- a speed control for regulating the movement of individual cars of a transportation system in which each car is propelled by contact between a rotating drive tube on the car and a reaction wheel positioned along the path of the car comprising signal means that are energized if the car speed is to be reduced at a particular station, pivotal means supporting a reaction wheel located at such station, motor means along the trackway operatively connected to the pivotal means, and means responsive to the signal for energizing the motor to pivot the reaction wheel to a slow speed position.
- car detecting means at a station and means connecting said car detecting means to the reaction wheel pivoting means at an adjacent station behind the car for pivoting said reaction wheel to its zero speed position.
- a series of speed control means located along a portion of the path of the cars, means for sequentially setting said control means to low speed position to produce an expanding low speed zone and a collapsing high speed zone, and means for simultaneously returning all of said series of control means to high speed position, whereby the spacing between the cars is reduced in said low speed zone and the cars are accelerated to high speed without increase in spacing.
- a speed control according to claim 4 in which said coupling means pivots successive wheels of the series of reaction wheels different amounts whereby a speed changing zone is established.
- car detecting means at a station and means connecting said car detecting means to the reaction wheel pivoting means of the next station behind the car for pivoting that wheel to zero speed position and successive reaction wheels to reduced speed positions whereby the presence of a car at a station establishes a deceleration zone extending from said next station.
- car position control means for pivotally deflecting the reaction wheel controlling the car in accordance with the position of the car relative to a fixed point comprising catch means operatively connected to the reaction wheel pivoting means and a member on the car cooperating with the catch means.
- a speed control according to claim 7 in which the catch is operatively fixed with respect to the reaction wheel pivoting means, and serves in cooperation with the member on the car to position the reaction wheel precisely in its zero speed position.
- car detecting means on one path of a car leading to a junction of paths, a timer operatively connected to said car detecting means, a pivoted reaction wheel on a second path leading to the junction, and control means responsive to said timer operatively connected to said pivoted reaction wheel for pivoting said wheel to its zero speed position during the timing interval of said timer.
- a speed control system in which the timing interval is measured from the last operation of the car detecting means.
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