Electronic blue flag safety equipment
CA 2212902 C · Owner: Huchrowski, Frank · Inventors: Joyce, Michael J. Jr.; Huchrowski, Frank; Balukin, Gregory S.
Overview
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A method of preventing movement of a locomotive while personnel are working on the locomotive. The method includes placing the brakes of the locomotive under the control of a card reading control box, and providing personnel employed to work on the locomotive with identification cards readable by the box. Each worker inserts his or her card in the box before working on the locomotive, and the control box reads the cards and in response thereto maintains the brakes of the locomotive at full service until personnel have left the locomotive and the control box is cleared by workers again inserting their cards in the box or by, a master key in the possession of an engineer/operator of the …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed August 12, 1997 and granted January 16, 2001. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended August 12, 2017.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by August 12, 2019.
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