Procedure to modify the width between wheels in the railroad vehicles to pass continuously from one width from one to the other. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

Procedure for modifying the width between wheels in rail vehicles to pass continuously from one track gauge to another, characterized, since the wheels are mounted on their axes with coupling between axle and wheels that allows the axial movement of these on the wheels. Axles, the wheels being provided with two treads, one of the bands with the normal profile used in railways that has a conicity that when resting on the rails originates forces that tend to decrease the width between wheels, and a second tread of smaller diameter, located on the inner side of the track with conicity profile in the opposite direction to the normal, which when resting on a counter rail causes forces on the wheels that tend to increase the width between them, making the passage of a width from track to another, through a transition path that will continuously change in width, linking the two tracks of different width, being this is the transition path of a counter rail located at a higher level than the rail so that it can rest on the second tread band, the wheel width change being carried out by being guided by the rail and counter rail arranged in the manner described. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)