JPH1150404A - Ballast-readjustment apparatus - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To increase the workability, by providing specified rotary brushes transferring ballast and compacting means for the inside and outside areas of rails, on a truck traveling on the rails. SOLUTION: A truck is shifted forward and ballast at nearby positions of both ends of sleepers 15 is collected to the rails 1 side by a raking-up rotary brush 7 and scrapped to the inside area 6 of the rails by a raking rotary brush 8. The ballast in the inside area 6 are dug and collected to the rails 1 side by a raking-out rotary brush 9 and collected to the right and left central sides of the inside area 6 by a collecting rotary brush 10. And the ballast on the sleepers 15 is swept by a sweeping device 12. Then, the inside area 6 is compacted by a roller of a compacting means 14 and a middle hollow space evenly dug by a specified depth from the upper face of the right and left central parts of the sleeper 15, is formed. Ballast at the rails is removed by a removing rotary brush 11 and the ballast at the outside area 5 of the rails are compacted by a roller 13. In this way, the work is automatically executed and the working efficiency can be greatly increased and the ballast can be uniformly scattered.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a ballast arranging machine used for railway track maintenance work.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, as one of railway maintenance work, an operation of organizing and consolidating ballast has been performed. In the ballast rearrangement work, the ballast is rearranged with a rearranging device called a ballast sweeper in order to rearrange the rough roadbed with ballast scattered on the sleepers, and then the ballast on the rails is removed by manual work using a broom etc. At the same time, a watermark was dug down from the sleeper by a predetermined size. In addition, this watermark was formed in order to prevent the ballast from scattering due to the wind pressure of the train running at high speed. In the consolidation work, the ballast is consolidated by a manual operation using a pressing rod (tack stick) having a plate or a plate compactor having a vibrator on the plate.

[0003]

However, the work efficiency is poor because the ballast rearranging work and the consolidation work are performed by human work, and many workers (10 persons) are required to complete the work within a short time at night. ~ 15 people).

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a ballast arranging machine in which ballast arranging work and ground consolidation work for a railway bed are mechanized and automated to eliminate human labor and improve work efficiency.

[0005]

In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, a ballast sorter according to the present invention comprises: a swiveling rotary brush for scraping a ballast outside a pair of rails into a rail inside; A scraping rotary brush that digs down the ballast of the area and collects it on the rail side, an inboard rotary brush that collects the ballast collected on the rail side by the scraping rotary brush toward the center of the rail inner area, and rides on the rail A trolley running on a rail is provided with a ballast removing rotary brush for removing ballast, a compaction pressure roller in a region outside the rail, and a pressurizing unit for compaction in a region inside the rail.

[0006] A scraping rotary brush for digging down the ballast in the inner area of the rail and collecting the ballast on the rail side, and an inboard rotation for scraping the ballast collected on the rail side by the scraping rotary brush toward the center of the inner area of the rail. A bogie that runs on a rail includes a brush, a ballast removing rotary brush that removes ballast riding on the rail, and a ground consolidation pressurizing unit inside the rail.

[0007] In addition, a scraping rotary brush for digging down the ballast in the inner area of the rail and collecting the ballast on the rail side, and a ballast collected on the rail side by the scraping rotary brush are centrally located in the inner area of the rail. It is provided with an inboard rotating brush for scraping closer and a pressing means for consolidating the inside of the rail.

Further, the pressurizing means includes a tall-type pressure roller for rolling on the inner area of the rail, a vibrator for vibrating the pressure roller, and elevating means for moving the pressure roller up and down. Things. Further, the pressurizing means includes: a track traveling device that travels in the inner region of the rail; a vibrator that vibrates the track traveling device; and elevating means that moves the track traveling device up and down. .

The pressing means has three rollers, a frame for rotatably holding the three rollers, and a running reversing body for running and reversing the inner area of the rail. A vibrating machine for vibrating, and elevating means for elevating the traveling reversing body. The pressurizing means includes a plate, a vibrator for vibrating the plate, and elevating means for elevating the plate.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings showing embodiments.

FIGS. 1 to 4 show an embodiment of a ballast sorter according to the present invention (FIG. 3 shows the first half of the ballast sorter, and FIG. 4 shows the latter half). ,
The vehicle has a carriage 2 that runs on a pair of rails 1 and 1. The carriage 2 has an operation section 4 (driver's seat) at the front and a frame 3 for mounting equipment, and moves forward in the direction of arrow A (traveling direction).

Further, the ballast organizing machine of the present invention (from the operation unit 4 side) includes the scraping rotary brushes 7, 7, the scraping rotary brushes 8, 8, the scraping rotary brushes 9, 9, and the inward rotating brush. Brushes 10, 10, ballast removing rotary brushes 11, 11, sweeper device 12, and compaction roller for consolidating rail outside areas 5, 5
The truck 2 is provided with 13, 13 and a pressurizing means 14 in the rail inner area 6, and each rotating brush and the like can be moved up and down by elevating means 16.

The arrangement of the rotating brushes will be briefly described. The rotating brushes 7, 7 are arranged at positions near both ends of the sleeper 15, and the shafts 7a, 7a swing during operation to make the rotating brushes. It will be in the shape of a letter. In addition, the scraping rotary brushes 8, 8,
1 is located in the vicinity.

A pair of scraping rotary brushes 9, 9 are arranged in the rail inner area 6 so as to be mutually back and forth and shifted to the left and right, and a pair of inboard rotary brushes 10, 9, behind the pair.
10 is similarly arranged. In addition, a pair (two sets of left and right) ballast removing rotary brushes 11
1, which will be described later in detail.
The sweeper device 12 has left and right rotating brushes 19a and 19c and an intermediate rotating brush 19b.
c is disposed in the outer rail areas 5 and 5, respectively, and the intermediate rotating brush 19b is disposed in the inner rail area 6.

All of the rotary brushes such as the above-mentioned scraping rotary brush 7 have a plurality of rod-like elastic members 18 projecting radially from a shaft portion, and are connected to the respective lifting / lowering means 16. It is rotatably held by a frame member or the like, and is configured to be rotationally driven by a motor.

Next, an operation of forming a watermark while organizing ballast by the ballast organizing machine of the present invention will be described. Here, the middle watermark refers to a state in which the ballast 17 in the rail inner area 6 is dug down by a predetermined dimension from the upper surface of the sleeper 15, and is used to prevent the ballast from being scattered by wind pressure when the train runs. Will be

As shown in FIG. 1, at the start of the operation, the respective lifting brushes 16 are driven to lower and rotate the rotating brushes, and the carriage 2 moves forward slowly. Then, the ballast is sequentially processed from the leading scraper rotating brushes 7,7.

More specifically, as shown in FIG. 3 and FIG.
Ballasts 17 near both ends of the rails are collected on the rails 1 and 1 side. And the scraping rotary brushes 8, 8 behind it,
The ballasts 17 collected on the rails 1 and 1 are bounced off by the rotating rod-like elastic bodies 18 and are scraped into the rail inner area 6. At this time, there is no problem because the rod-like elastic body 18 can get over the rail 1 even if it hits the rail 1. In addition, preferably, the ramp plate 49 shown by a virtual line in FIG.
Is attached to this ballast sorter so that ballast 17 can be smoothly swept.

Next, as shown in FIGS. 3, 6, and 7, the ballasts 17 in the rail inner area 6 are dug down by the rotating scraping rotary brushes 9, 9 and collected on the rails 1, 1 side. Preferably, a ramp board indicated by a virtual line in FIG.
50 is attached to this ballast sorter. The ballasts 17... Collected on the rails 1 and 1 by the inboard rotating brushes 10 and 10 are scraped toward the left and right centers of the rail inner area 6. In other words, once dig deep and fill it again to an appropriate height. After that, the ballasts 17 on the sleeper 15 are removed by the sweeper device 12 (described in FIG. 4).

By the above operation, the rail inner area 6
Ballast surface 23 (roadbed) is somewhat flat.
───The left and right middle parts are slightly raised 少 し
A flatter and ballasted ballast surface can be formed by the pressing means 14 described later.

As shown in FIGS. 1 and 8, the pressurizing means 14
A tall-type pressure roller 20 that rolls in the inner region 6 of the rail, and a vibrator that is provided in the roller 20 and vibrates the pressure roller 20
Elevating means having a pair of left and right swing arms 22a, 22a for rotatably holding and vertically moving the pressure roller 20
22 and.

The swing arms 22a, 22 of the lifting means 22
a is swung downward to lower the pressure roller 20 and
By driving the vibrators 21, 21, the pressure roller 20
Are vibrated while the bogie 2 travels, so that the rolling roller 22 is pulled and rolled through the swing arms 22a, 22a to consolidate the ballasts 17. At this time, since the pressure roller 20 can get over the sleeper 15, the soil compaction work can be continuously performed.

As a result, as shown in FIG. 9, a flat ballast surface 23 (a watermark) dug down uniformly from the upper surface 15a of the right and left intermediate portions of the sleeper 15 by a predetermined size M (about 50 mm) can be obtained. In addition, since the outer peripheral surface of the pressure roller 20 is formed of a resin layer, the roller 15 can get over without damaging the sleeper 15. Further, the vibrating machines 21 and 21 are
It is held so as not to rotate with it.

Further, while the ballast arranging operation of the rail inner area 6 is being performed, as shown in FIGS. 4, 10 and 11, the left and right ballast removal moving along the pair of rails 1, 1 is performed. Ballast 17 on rail section by rotating brushes 11, 11
… Has been removed.

More specifically, the ballast removing rotary brush 11 is composed of four brushes arranged on the left and right sides of the rail 1, and is perpendicular to the rail 1 and outside the rail 5 and the inside of the rail. 6, the shaft portions 24a, 25
and fourth and fourth rotating brushes 24, 25 having first and second rotating brushes 24, 25 having shaft portions 26a, 27a disposed parallel to the rail 1 and in the outer rail area 5 and the inner rail area 6, respectively. Brushes 26 and 27.

As shown in FIG. 10A, before the ballast removing operation, the shaft portions 24a, 25 of the first and second rotating brushes 24, 25 are formed.
a is in a horizontal state, whereby the bar-like elastic members 18 at the upper and lower positions are in a vertical state. That is, when the ballast removing rotary brush 11 is lowered by the lifting / lowering means 16 described with reference to FIG. 1, the bar-like elastic members 18 at the lower position can be lowered to both sides without hitting the rail 1.

Then, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 10 (b), the shafts 24a, 25a are inclined in the shape of a letter "C" so that the distal end of the bar-like elastic body 18 at the lower position is positioned at the corner 28 of the rail 1. And the first and second rotary brushes 24 and 25 are rotated to sweep out (forward) the ballasts 17 on the corners 28 of the rail 1 and the connecting fittings 29.

At the same time, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 11, the third and fourth rotating brushes 26 and 27 are rotated to rotate the rail 1.
The ballast 17 riding on the head part 30 of the
... is sweeping the rail 1 left and right.

Also, as shown in FIGS. 4 and 12, the rail outer regions 5 and 5 near both end edges of the sleeper 15 are subjected to ground consolidation work by the pressure rollers 13 and 13. This roller 13
Has a roller body 34 and a vibrator 32 provided inside the roller body 34, and is rotatably provided at the tip of a swing arm 31 mounted on the carriage 2 so as to be vertically swingable. The tip of the lifting / lowering means 16 (for example, a telescopic cylinder) is a swing arm 31
The lifting arm 16 swings the swing arm 31 downward to lower the pressure roller 13 on the ballast surface 23.

The roller body 34 rolls while generating vibrations by the vibrator 32, and the ballasts 17 are solidified flat. The vibrator 32 is mounted on a mounting frame 33 having three rollers 35 and is held so as not to rotate with the roller body 34.

Next, FIG. 13 shows another embodiment of the ballast arrangement according to the present invention. The track traveling device 36, the vibrator 21 provided inside the track traveling device 36, and the elevating means 22 for raising and lowering the track traveling device 36 are provided. 37 is the lifting means 22
And a connecting member for connecting the endless track traveling device 36 with the endless track traveling device 36.

When the endless track traveling device 36 travels in the rail inner area 6 while generating vibrations by the vibrator 21, the rollers 38 of the endless track traveling device 36 move up and down to move the sleeper 15. When the belt 39 gets over, the belt 39 surely contacts the ballast surface 23 and pressurizes it to consolidate the ground. The connecting rod 40
The truck and the connecting member 37 are connected by the
However, the endless track traveling device 36 may be driven by itself.

FIG. 14 shows another embodiment of the present invention, in which a pressurizing means 14 has three rollers 41... And a frame body which rotatably holds these three rollers 41. 42, a traveling reversing body 43 for traveling and reversing along the rail inner area 6, a vibrator 21 attached to a frame 42 of the traveling reversing body 43, and elevating means 22 for elevating the traveling reversing body 43. It is a thing. The elevating means 22 has a swing arm 44 that swings up and down, and the frame 42 is pivotally attached to the tip of the swing arm 44 so as to be rotatable.

The reversing body 43 vibrated by the vibrator 21 travels while solidifying the ballast surface 23 on the ballast surface 23 by the rotation of the two rollers 41, 41 at the lower position.
As shown in FIG. 15 (a), when the roller 41 (41a) hits the sleeper 15, the running reversing body 43 reverses by 120 ° and straddles the sleeper 15. Then, as shown in FIG. 2B, the traveling reversing body 43 is pulled by the swing arm 44 in the traveling direction (in the direction of arrow A), so that the roller 41 (41a) hitting the sleeper 15 gets over the sleeper 15 Go.

FIG. 16 shows still another embodiment, in which a pressurizing means 14 includes a plate 45, a vibrator 21 provided on the plate 45, and an elevating device for elevating the plate 45. Means 22 (e.g., a telescopic cylinder).
Are substantially equal to each other.

During the ground consolidation work, the plate 45 lands on the ballast surface 23 of the rail inner area 6 and the vibrator 21
The ballast surface 23 is vibrated by the vibration caused by. After vibrating for a predetermined time (about 2 seconds), the plate 45 is raised, the trolley is advanced by a predetermined distance, and the plate 45 is landed on the next ballast surface 23 to vibrate and intermittently consolidate the ground.

[0037]

Since the present invention is configured as described above, the following effects can be obtained.

(According to claim 1) The work of arranging the rough roadbed (ballasts 17) in the inner rail area 6 and the work of consolidating the inner rail area 6 and the outer rail areas 5, 5 are completely mechanized (automated). Therefore, human work can be omitted and work efficiency can be greatly improved. In addition, the ballast can be finished uniformly and neatly without leaving unprocessed portions of ballast arrangement and ground consolidation.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, the work of organizing and consolidating the rough roadbed (ballasts 17) in the rail inner area 6 can be mechanized (automated). The efficiency can be improved.

According to the third aspect of the present invention, the work of forming the watermark can be mechanized (automated) while arranging the roadbed (ballast 17...) In the rail inner area 6. Reduction and improvement of work efficiency can be achieved.

Since the ballasts 17 in the inner area 6 of the rail can be continuously pressed (according to claim 4, 5 or 6), the working time can be shortened.

The pressure means 14 has a relatively simple structure and can be manufactured at low cost.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a simplified side view showing an embodiment of a ballast sorter according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing an arrangement of each rotating brush and the like.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing the arrangement of each rotating brush in the first half.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the arrangement of each rotating brush and the like in the rear half.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of an operation of a scraping rotary brush.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the scraping rotary brush.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram of an operation of an inwardly rotating brush.

FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of the pressurizing means.

FIG. 9 is a cross-sectional view showing an inner region of the rail in a watermark state;

FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram of an operation of the ballast removing rotary brush.

FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram of an operation of the ballast removing rotary brush.

FIG. 12 is an explanatory diagram of an operation of a pressure roller.

FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram showing another embodiment of the ballast sorter of the present invention.

FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram showing another embodiment.

FIG. 15 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a reversal state of the traveling reversal body.

FIG. 16 is an explanatory diagram showing still another embodiment.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 1 rail 2 trolley 5 rail outer area 6 rail inner area 8 rake-in rotary brush 9 rake-out rotary brush 10 inwardly-rotating brush 11 ballast removal rotary brush 13 pressure roller 14 pressure means 20 tal-type pressure roller 21 vibrator 22 Lifting means 36 Endless track traveling device 41 Roller 42 Frame 43 Travel reversing body 45 Plate

Claims (7)

[Claims] A rotary brush (8, 8) for scraping ballasts in the outer areas (5, 5) of the pair of rails (1, 1) into the inner area (6) of the rail, and a ballast in the inner area (6) of the rail being dug down to the rails (1, 1). Rotating brushes 9 and 9, and inboard rotating brushes 10 and 10 for gathering the ballast collected on the rails 1 and 1 by the scraping rotary brushes 9 and 9 toward the center of the rail inner area 6. , A ballast removing rotary brush 11 for removing the ballast riding on the rails 1, 1, a compaction pressure roller 13, 13 for the outer area 5, 5, and a compaction pressing means 14 for the inner area 6 of the rail. Is provided on a carriage 2 running on the rails 1 and 1. 2. A scraping rotary brush (9) for digging down a ballast in a rail inner area (6) and collecting the ballast on the rail (1), and a ballast collected on the rail (1) by the scraping rotary brush (9). Rotating brushes 10, 10 for collecting the ballast toward the center of the rail inner area 6, ballast removing rotary brushes 11, 11 for removing the ballast riding on the rails 1, 1, and pressurizing means for consolidating the rail inner area 6. 14. A ballast rearranging machine, comprising: a carriage 2 that runs on rails 1 and 14. 3. A scraping rotary brush 9, 9 for digging down a ballast in a rail inner area 6 and collecting it on the rail 1, 1 side, on a truck 2 running on the rail 1, 1, and a scraping rotary brush 9, 9.
Inboard rotating brushes 10 and 10 that collect ballast collected on the rails 1 and 1 side toward the center of the rail inner area 6
And a pressurizing means 14 for consolidating the rail inner area 6. 4. Pressurizing means 14 includes a tall-type pressure roller 20 that rolls on the rail inner area 6, a vibrator 21 that vibrates the pressure roller 20, and an elevating device that moves the pressure roller 20 up and down. Means22
The ballast sorter according to claim 1, comprising: 5. A pressurizing means (14) comprising: a track traveling device (36) traveling on the rail inner area (6); a vibrator (21) for exciting the track traveling device (36); The ballast sorter according to claim 1, 2 or 3, further comprising means (22). 6. The pressing means 14 comprises three rollers 41.
A traveling reversing body 43 having a frame body 42 for rotatably holding the rollers 41...
A vibrator 21 for vibrating the running reversal body 43;
4. The ballast sorter according to claim 1, further comprising lifting means 22 for raising and lowering the 43. 7. The pressurizing means according to claim 1, wherein said pressurizing means comprises a plate, a vibrator for vibrating said plate, and an elevating means for elevating said plate. Ballast sorter.