Mobile ballast cleaning machine

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1982-01-29

1984-05-29

Reese, Randolph

Railways

Track layers

Track raising car

37104, 104 2, 171 16, 414501, 414542, E01B 2710

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044507712

ABSTRACT:
A mobile ballast cleaning machine comprising a frame mounted on two undercarriages for mobility along a track supported on the ballast resting on a subgrade, a ballast excavating means mounted on the frame between the track to expose the subgrade, a ballast screening means arranged on the frame to receive the removed ballast from the ballast excavating means and to discharge cleaned ballast and waste, conveyor band means for carrying away the waste and for redistributing the cleaned ballast, the ballast redistributing conveyor band means having a discharge end and a zone being defined between the ballast excavating means and the discharge end for laying a succession of rigid foam plates on the exposed subgrade, and apparatus for handling the rigid foam plates, the apparatus including a plate receiving and transfer station, an elongated plate conveying path extending from the station to the zone and a plate turning and laying mechanism receiving successive ones of the rigid foam plates from the conveying path and for laying the successive plates in said zone under the track in a position extending transversely to the track.

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patent: 4168130 (1979-09-01), Barth et al.
patent: 4307667 (1981-12-01), Scheuchzer et al.

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