Patent ID: 8887883

Claim:
A device for the coupling of elastic and rigid contact line systems for the supply of power to electrical locomotives, comprising: an elongated cantilever adapted for placement in a transition area between the rigid and the elastic contact line system, whose rigidity increases in its longitudinal direction; several multiple clamps situated in a distributed manner along the cantilever adapted to receive a) a first contact wire of the rigid contact line system and b) two contact wires of the elastic contact line system, with the two contact wires of the elastic contact line system held parallel to the first contact wire, with all three contact wires affixed on the several multiple clamps; wherein the multiple clamps are located in recesses of the cantilever; wherein the multiple clamps have two pairs of clamping claws located in a mirror-symmetrical manner, each of which is adapted to clamp one of the contact wires of the elastic contact line system, and wherein one clamping claw of the pair of clamping claws is adapted to clamp the first contact wire of the rigid contact line system; wherein the clamping claws have passage boreholes to hold at least one screw.