Patent ID: 7597052
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: B61D,B61F

Abstract:
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.