COUPLING DEVICE AND SWITCHING SYSTEM FOR AN ELECTRICAL CABLE COUPLING AND A MECHANICAL MIDDLE BUFFER COUPLING FOR RAIL VEHICLES

摘要

The reliable initiation and chronological sequence for coupling or uncoupling a mechanical middle buffer coupling and an electrical cable coupling having a common rotary drive and with minimum control effort, is effected using a shaft, which can be driven at right angles to the coupling axis and fastened non-rotatably to an actuating arm extending into a guide rail of the cable coupling. This acts as a direct drive member for the cable coupling, and includes an uncoupling lever for the mechanical middle buffer coupling thus positively coupled to the actuating arm via the shaft. A switching arrangement with cams controls the initiation and the chronological sequence of the coupling and uncoupling process.