Patent ID: 7490781
Filing Date: 2009-02-17
Classification: E01B

Abstract:
1. An electrically-insulating spacer arrangement for positioning between two adjacent rail ends, comprising a body and a first gasket, the body having a T-shaped profile corresponding to an end face profile of the rail ends and the first gasket having a profile which is different from the T-shaped profile of the body, wherein the body comprises an electrically-insulating material that is substantially incompressible and has at least a first face and defines a single first gasket-receiving groove on the first face, and wherein the first gasket is received by the single first gasket-receiving groove on the first face, extends beyond the first face of the body and is a compressible electrically-insulating gasket coacting with the body, and wherein the first gasket covers only a portion of the first face of the body before compression of the first gasket occurs.