UK Patent 0318729.1

interlink Garden Rail System

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Fleximounts &
Ballast Anchors

NEW
BALLAST BOLSTER

Re- ballasting Mar 2005

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Fleximount

Ballast Anchor

Track Expansion

Track Types

Easement & Super Elevation

Typical Installations

Current Methods

Misconceptions

Getting Started

Development

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O Gauge Modeller?

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Development

WE HAVE HAD QUITE FEW CALLS ABOUT THE PARTS ON HIS PAGE BUT WE MUST STRESS THEY ARE STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND ARE NOT AVLIABLE YET.

WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS OR INTREST ABOUT ANY ITEM YOU FEEL MAY BE OF USE TO YOU. THIS WILL ASSIST US IN OUR DEVELOPMENT SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO EMAIL ANY COMMENTS TO US AT THIS ADDRESS WE WILL KEEP YOU INFORMED OF THE DEVELOPMENT.

The Joining Plate will assist in track/rail alignment and maintaining a fixed rail gap.

Mount Support Assembly

The Mount Support Assembly parts consists of the Interface Plate, Tube Saddle and the Tube Cap These parts will enable a rigid or flexible tube (20mm dia UK & 3/4" USA) to be laid around the garden with pier supports. It will also allow a tube to be attached to fixed base. A Fleximount will be able to be attached at any position along the the tube route. It will also enable the track to be easily banked achieving Superelevation. The tube material, copper and semi ridged plastic which is used for routing and the piers, can be purchased at any DIY store. Some other cheap parts may also have to be purchased.

The Tube Cap with a down tube gives the facility to attach a pier to the the bottom of the Fleximount so it can be staked into any terrain.

The system will have numerous assembly variations that not necessarily will involve tubing.

By attaching the Fleximounts to the tubing a route can be independent of the terrain and the surrounding garden. It also makes it flexible enough for a change of route or when moving house.

See test bed trial below. This has been assembled using development parts only. The track used on this section is Peco G-45 Flexible Track.

The 1st part of this trial test bed has 3 Fleximounts attached to semi ridged plastic tube, on the bend and copper tube on the straight. Standard pipe tee couplings have been to used to join the pipe together and create down piers. Red dot highlights Fleximount positions.	Log roll is positioned & fixed independently of the track bed. Top of the track rail being level with the log roll.

View showing further track extention	View showing the track route and the option of banking the track (Superelevation) at the top 1st curve and the the 2nd lower curve. This is easily achieved by swiveling the Fleximount assembly on the routing tube and fixing.

Copper pipe is bent to suit 2nd radii	The current end of the line showing 3rd curve

See latest photographs of this test bed late 2004
Interface Plate, Tube Saddle & Tube Cap. All tubing is standard 20mm diameter tubing purchased at any DIY store The down pier is also standard copper tubing, cut to desired length. It is flatten at the lower end into a 'spade', using a vice or a hammer. This will stop the tube rotating in the ground when assembled.This part will attach to the Tube Cap. The parts will be available later on in the year (2004).