Patent ID: 8398031

Claim:
A rail system, particularly for an electric pallet track, comprising: a main line which comprises at least two stationary parallel rails; at least two branch lines which form an angle with each other and each of which includes as many stationary parallel rails as the main line; and, points arranged between the main line and the branch line, which comprise as many movable rail portions for each rail of the main line as there are branch lines and which are capable of selectively connecting the rails of the different branch lines to the rails of the mail line depending on the position of the movable rail portions; and, at least one drive for moving the movable rail portions, and, at least one additional rail portion in a frog of the points which is rotatably or linearly movable; and, wherein, the movable rail portions can each be pivoted about a stationary pivot axis, and further wherein the pivot axes are arranged outside a longitudinal extent of the associated movable rail portion at a spacing from its end.