Rail clip setter and method for fixing spring clips without full

Details Rail clip setter and method for fixing spring clips without full Rail clip setter and method for fixing spring clips without full

1994-01-27

1995-07-11

Oberleitner, Robert J.

Railways

Track layers

104 172, F01B 2924

Patent

active

054311071

ABSTRACT:
A clip setting machine is capable of automatically separating individual spring-type rail clips from a stack of clips and of setting the individual clips in anchor sockets for subsequent application, e.g., by an automatic rail applicator. The clip setting machine may include two separate workheads each of which is positioned over a respective rail and which may support gauge and field side clip setter assemblies operable to set clips on the respective sides of a rail. Each clip setter assembly is movable from a position in which it receives clips one at a time from a magazine, through a position in which it is aligned with the shoulder of the anchor, and into a clip setting position. Each workhead can be lowered onto the rail into longitudinal alignment with the sockets and moved from tie to tie along the rail without being lifted, thereby facilitating the clip setting process. The clip setting process is preferably fully automated so that only two operators are required to operate the clip setting machine, one to load the magazines and one to position the machine and to initiate the clip setting cycle.

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