Severing by tearing or breaking – Breaking or tearing apparatus – Combined with preliminary weakener or with nonbreaking cutter
Patent
1984-05-02
1987-10-27
Yost, Frank T.
Severing by tearing or breaking
Breaking or tearing apparatus
Combined with preliminary weakener or with nonbreaking cutter
1984634, 198750, 225 2, 225103, 414748, B26F 300, B23P 1702
Patent
active
047024038
ABSTRACT:
A shearing apparatus for breaking railroad type rails into small segments with a standard rail section including a base formed from a bottom flange on each side of the head connecting web. The apparatus includes a sequential rail feed mechanism comprised of an inclined vibratable supply table, a driven conveyor and means to move rails from the supply table to the conveyor. The rails are conveyed to an advancing mechanism located adjacent the breaker head assembly. Predetermined lengths of the conveyed rails are fed into the breaker head assembly where the rail is initially clamped. Following clamping, one bottom flange, on one side of the web, is sheared through and the rail is then contacted by a breaker head positioned beyond the shear plane established by the sheared flange. As the breaker head contacts the rail and bends it outwardly away from the sheared flange until it causes the rail to fail in combined shear and bending, the rail segments are ejected from the apparatus and collected for subsequent handling.
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Harris Press & Shear, Inc.
Yost Frank T.
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