Railways – Track layers – Track raising car
Patent
1981-02-09
1984-02-14
Reese, Randolph
Railways
Track layers
Track raising car
104 2, 171 16, E01B 2710, E01B 2717
Patent
active
044309449
ABSTRACT:
A mobile apparatus for cleaning ballast supporting a track comprises a train arranged for non-stop movement on the track. The train includes a ballast cleaning machine with a track lifting mechanism, a series of freight cars arranged to receive and transport the waste component from the cleaned ballast, and a ballast tamping machine arranged between the ballast cleaning machine and the series of freight cars, the tamping machine comprising an additional track lifting mechanism and a tamping head capable of intermittent movement along the track. The waste component is conveyed from the ballast cleaning machine to respective freight cars by a first conveyor section arranged to convey the waste component along the series of freight cars and a second conveyor section arranged on the tamping machine. The second conveyor section has an input adjacent the ballast cleaning machine and arranged to receive the waste component therefrom, and an output adjacent the input of the first conveyor section and arranged to deliver the waste component thereto.
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Franz Plasser Bahn-baumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
Kelman Kurt
Reese Randolph
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