US 7,597,052 B2
	Anticlimber for railroad vehicles
Thomas Malfent, Vienna (Austria); Andreas Rittenschober, Vienna (Austria); Thomas Meissl, Obersdorf (Austria); and Martin Jüly, Margarethen (Austria)
Assigned to Siemens Transportation Systems GmbH & Co. KG, Vienna (Austria)
Appl. No. 11/658,421 PCT Filed Jul. 07, 2005, PCT No. PCT/AT2005/000255 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Nov. 14, 2007, PCT Pub. No. WO2006/010176, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 02, 2006.
Claims priority of application No. A 1289/2004 (AT), filed on Jul. 28, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2008/0314282 A1, Dec. 25, 2008
Int. Cl. B61D 15/06 (2006.01); B61D 17/00 (2006.01); B61G 11/00 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 105—392.5  [105/396; 213/220]

3 Claims

1. A rail vehicle comprising: an anticlimber disposed in an end region of the vehicle and extending over substantially an entire width of the rail vehicle, at least one anticlimber element disposed in said end region of said rail vehicle as a partial vertical extension of said anticlimber, which anticlimber element is capable of engaging an anticlimber of another rail vehicle in the event of a collision wherein at least one impact pillar is provided, whose longitudinal axis is substantially perpendicular to the plane of the rails on which the rail vehicle travels, said anticlimber element being disposed in the interior of said impact pillar, and wherein said at least one anticlimber element exhibits fins which, in the event of a collision with another rail vehicle, are capable of engaging the fins of an anticlimber on said other rail vehicle.