Machine for picking up tie plates

Details Machine for picking up tie plates Machine for picking up tie plates

1990-10-16

1991-11-12

Pedder, Dennis H.

Railways

Track layers

Tie replacer

104 71, E01B 2910

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050638564

ABSTRACT:
A machine for picking up and storing tie plates of a railroad track comprises the combination of a machine frame, two vertically adjustable tie plate pick-up devices transversely spaced from each other on the machine frame, the tie plate pick-up devices being vertically adjustable between a lower pick-up position wherein their transverse spacing corresponds to the track gage and an upper tie plate depositing position, a storage device arranged on the machine frame for receiving the tie plates from the pick-up devices in their upper tie plate depositing position, a transversely displaceable device mounted on the machine frame for transversely displacing a track tie within a range of about 30 cm to about 100 cm, and a vertically adjustable rail lifting device mounted on the machine frame adjacent the track tie displacing device.

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patent: 4611541 (1986-09-01), Theurer
patent: 4809614 (1989-03-01), Theurer et al.
patent: 4862806 (1989-09-01), Theurer et al.

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