Railways – Track clearers
Patent
1988-04-29
1989-08-08
Reeves, Robert B.
Railways
Track clearers
246428, E01B 724
Patent
active
048542440
ABSTRACT:
A system for use with a rail for carrying a moving conveyance, the rail having a web portion, a base portion and an increased width top portion, the system serving to heat the rail top portion to decrease the accumulation of snow and ice thereon, including studs secured to the rail web portion, such as by spot welding, at spaced intervals along the length of the rail, a series of elongated carrier members each defined in cross-section normal the length thereof by an upper trough forming portion and a lower clamping portion, the clamping portion having openings spaced along the length thereof in register with and arranged to receive the studs affixed to the rail web portion and being positionable in a first position wherein the trough forming portion is exposed to receive a heating cable therein and in a second position wherein the heating cable is in close proximity to the top rail portion whereby heat supplied by the cable is readily transmitted to the rail top portion.
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Brennan Thomas J.
Rhodes Thomas R.
General Signal Corporation
Hubbard Robert R.
Johnson Paul H.
Kramer Dean J.
Reeves Robert B.
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