GB1114662A - Distributor waggon for railway sleepers - Google Patents

Abstract

1,114,662. Wagons for laying permanent way; wheel arrangements. R. POUGET. 12 April, 1966 [10 April, 1965], No. 15811/66. Heading B7L. [Also in Division E1] A railway wagon for the transport and distribution of sleepers 17, Fig. 1, adapted to be placed transversely in the wagon comprises two sets of wheels 22, 22 and 9, 9, the wheels 22, 22 for moving the wagon on the normal track rails 18 and the wheels 9, 9 for moving the wagon on track rails (15), Fig. 2 (not shown), spaced apart a distance wider than the length of a sleeper; a frame 20, 20, 21, 21, Fig. 3, carried by the wheels and open at the bottom under the location of the sleepers 17 when in the wagon; a plurality of endless chains 7 disposed in vertical transverse planes along each side of the wagon and carrying supports 25, Fig. 3, for the ends of the sleepers 17 and means 11, in the form of a winch and endless chain 10 for displacing the opposed vertical runs of opposite chains 7 simultaneously in the same direction to lower sleepers, when supported on the supports 25 so that they eventually fall through the bottom of the frame on to the ground. The wheels 9, when inoperative, are pivoted to storage positions under the wagons as described with reference to Fig. 4 (not shown). When the wheels 9 are in the operative position, Fig. 1, they are engaged with the track rails 15 by entering an incline 16 whereafter the wheels 2 leave the track rails 18, the wagon being pulled by a tractor 12. The chains 7 engage sprockets 5, 6 on upper and lower horizontal shafts 3, 4 at each side of the wagon. The chain (10) is connected to sprockets (27) on the upper shafts (3), as described with reference to Fig. 4 (not shown). As shown in Fig. 1, the sleepers are supported on the chains 7 within the wagon in staggered formation so that as they drop on to the ground they will be approximately at the correct spacing.