US20220349128A1 - Track ballast levelling apparatus - Google Patents

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US20220349128A1
US20220349128A1 US17/621,046 US202017621046A US2022349128A1 US 20220349128 A1 US20220349128 A1 US 20220349128A1 US 202017621046 A US202017621046 A US 202017621046A US 2022349128 A1 US2022349128 A1 US 2022349128A1
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Bernhard Lichtberger
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B27/00—Placing, renewing, working, cleaning, or taking-up the ballast, with or without concurrent work on the track; Devices therefor; Packing sleepers
    • E01B27/02—Placing the ballast; Making ballastway; Redistributing ballasting material; Machines or devices therefor; Levelling means
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B27/00—Placing, renewing, working, cleaning, or taking-up the ballast, with or without concurrent work on the track; Devices therefor; Packing sleepers
    • E01B27/02—Placing the ballast; Making ballastway; Redistributing ballasting material; Machines or devices therefor; Levelling means
    • E01B27/023—Spreading, levelling or redistributing ballast already placed
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B27/00—Placing, renewing, working, cleaning, or taking-up the ballast, with or without concurrent work on the track; Devices therefor; Packing sleepers
    • E01B27/02—Placing the ballast; Making ballastway; Redistributing ballasting material; Machines or devices therefor; Levelling means
    • E01B27/022—Placing the ballast; Making ballastway; Redistributing ballasting material; Machines or devices therefor; Levelling means by devices moving on the track with or without spreading or levelling
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B27/00—Placing, renewing, working, cleaning, or taking-up the ballast, with or without concurrent work on the track; Devices therefor; Packing sleepers
    • E01B27/02—Placing the ballast; Making ballastway; Redistributing ballasting material; Machines or devices therefor; Levelling means
    • E01B27/023—Spreading, levelling or redistributing ballast already placed
    • E01B27/026—Spreading, levelling or redistributing ballast already placed by means of driven tools, e.g. rotating brooms or digging devices
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B2203/00—Devices for working the railway-superstructure
    • E01B2203/02—Removing or re-contouring ballast
    • E01B2203/024—Inclined chain
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B2203/00—Devices for working the railway-superstructure
    • E01B2203/02—Removing or re-contouring ballast
    • E01B2203/027—Sweeping
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
    • E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
    • E01B2203/00—Devices for working the railway-superstructure
    • E01B2203/14—Way of locomotion or support
    • E01B2203/141—Way of locomotion or support on the track to be treated

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  • the invention relates to a track ballast levelling apparatus having a machine frame movable on rail bogies, with which a levelling device adjustable relative to the machine frame and a sweeping device adjustable relative to the machine frame are associated, wherein the levelling device comprises a central plough and two flank ploughs and the sweeping device comprises a rotationally driven ballast-sweeping brush for sweeping away track ballast, and wherein the machine frame is optionally associated with a ballast-conveying device associated with the ballast-sweeping brush and a ballast silo with ballast chutes for ballasting the track.
  • Such a track ballast levelling apparatus for ballasting a track is known from U.S. Pat. No. 5,402,547.
  • a ballast plough which is adjustable in height by means of drives and is arranged below the machine frame, is followed by a total of three sweeping brush housings, which are spaced apart from one another and each have a rotationally driven sweeping brush.
  • At the front end of the machine frame there is a further sweeping brush for replacement with a sweeping brush worn out by work ng in the sweeping brush housing.
  • the manipulative effort required for this is relatively high, since the sweeping brush having a large number of elastic tubes is correspondingly heavy. In the event that the track being swept is located between two neighbouring tracks that are being used without restriction, serious safety problems arise in connection with the replacement of the sweeping brush.
  • AT 395 875 discloses a sweeping apparatus consisting of three separate sweeping brushes arranged side by side in the transverse direction of the track and individually lowerable towards the track.
  • the known sweeping brushes have a preferred working direction. While the central plough of track ballast levelling apparatuses can be designed to work in both working directions, this does not apply to the sweeping brushes.
  • ballast levelling apparatuses which have a ballast sweeping device, a steep conveyor belt and a ballast silo.
  • EP 0 787 858 describes two bearing arms for supporting the brush shaft, which are spaced apart from each other in the transverse direction of the machine and are connected to the machine frame, and which have holding devices for intermediate storage of the brush shaft to facilitate replacement of the sweeping brush.
  • the holding device is mounted in a transversely displaceable manner and is connected to a transverse displacement drive.
  • up to three different equipped sweeping brushes are carried along with the machine. These differ according to the type of sleepers.
  • the ballast between the sleepers is swept out deeper so that there is no ballast turbulence or ballast being knocked loose from the intermediate compartment by ice breaking loose from the trains during winter operaton.
  • Track ballast levelling apparatuses must ballast a track several times depending on the maintenance work and level the ballast. Finally, the specified ballast profile must be produced and the ballast swept off the sleepers. Since the current ballast-sweeping brushes can only sweep in one direction of work, the machine must back up to complete the work and perform the final levelling with sweeping. If sweeping could be done in both directions, then time would be saved and the work would be done more efficiently and cost effectively.
  • the sweeping brush housings are protected against wear by replaceable wear plates. If these are worn, then they must be replaced. This is very difficult to do on site due to the difficult accessibility of the inside of the sweeping brush housing.
  • the invention solves the problem posed in that the ballast-sweeping brush is mounted in a rotationally driven manner in a sweeping brush housing, which is mounted with a rotating device so as to be pivotally adjustable about a machine vertical axis with respect to the machine frame between a sweeping position and a maintenance position.
  • sweeping can be performed in both directions when the ballast-sweeping brush is pivoted by rotating the sweeping brush housing by 180° about a machine vertical axis, i.e., a vertical axis.
  • the sweeping brush housing is rotated 90° to the left or right. This considerably improves accessibility, which facilitates the replacement of the sweeping brushes, but also the replacement of worn brush hoses or the replacement of worn wear plates, which are thus easy accessible from the machine frame side.
  • the sweeper shaft can be picked up and pivoted outwards after the connection to the sweeper brush housing has been released.
  • a simple lifting device can then be used to place the sweeping brush on the machine. Using the same lifting device, another sweeping brush is picked up and deposited into the transfer device. The sweeping brush is then pivoted into the sweeping brush housing and mounted.
  • FIG. 1 shows a side view of a track ballast levelling apparatus
  • FIG. 3 shows the track ballast levelling apparatus of FIG. 2 with sweeping brush housing and steep belt conveyor in maintenance position
  • FIG. 4 shows a side view of a design variant with sweeping brush housing and associated cross-conveyor belt in sweeping position raised from the track
  • FIG. 5 shows the track ballast levelling apparatus of FIG. 4 with sweeping brush housing and cross-conveyor belt in maintenance position
  • FIG. 6 shows the track ballast levelling apparatus shown in FIG. 4 with the sweeping brush housing pivoted through 180° for sweeping backwards.
  • FIG. 1 shows a track ballast levelling apparatus which can be moved on rails 7 via a machine frame 15 mounted on bogies 14 .
  • the cab 22 serves as a driving cab and as a working cab.
  • the centre plough 23 can be used to plough ballast into the centre of the track, out of the centre of the track, and from left to right or vice versa.
  • Flank ploughs 24 can be used to pull ballast up from the flank and feed it to the centre plough for distribution.
  • Interchangeable ballast-sweeping brushes 21 are mounted on the machine. These can be deposited or lifted in the track by the crane 20 and placed on the machine.
  • a ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 arranged in a sweeping brush housing 13 can pick up ballast from the track.
  • the ballast can be temporarily stored in a silo 3 via a steep conveyor belt 4 .
  • the stored ballast can be returned to the track via ballast chutes 9 , 10 .
  • the machine operates in the indicated working direction A.
  • the ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 is rotatably mounted in the sweeping brush housing 13 , which is mounted with a rotating device 6 so as to be pivotally adjustable between a sweeping position ( FIGS. 1, 2, 4 and 6 ) and a maintenance position ( FIGS. 3 and 5 ) about a machine vertical axis with respect to the machine frame ( 15 ).
  • the rotating device 6 comprises a turntable with a rotary drive.
  • FIG. 2 schematically shows a section of the track ballast levelling apparatus 1 with a working direction A, having a ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 , a silo 3 and a steep conveyor belt 4 .
  • the track ballast levelling apparatus can be moved with the frame 15 via bogies 14 on the rails 7 , which are mounted on sleepers 8 .
  • Ballast can be discharged from the silo 3 into the track via ballast chutes 9 , 10 next to the rails on the inside and outside.
  • the ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 which is radially equipped with sweeping hoses is seated n the sweeping brush housing 13 .
  • the material guide 11 is displaceable with the steep conveyor belt 4 in working direction A from the sweeping position into the maintenance position.
  • the ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 is lowered into the track via parallel links 5 .
  • the sweeping brush housing 13 can be turned by ⁇ 180° from the staffing position shown in FIG. 2 in order to be able to easily reverse the sweeping direction.
  • Deposited ballast-sweeping brushes 21 can be manipulated with the crane 20 .
  • FIG. 3 schematically shows a track ballast levelling apparatus 1 in working direction A with a ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 , a silo 3 and a steep conveyor belt 4 .
  • the material guide 11 is connected to the steep conveyor belt 4 and can be moved forward with the steep conveyor belt 4 to make room for the rotation of the sweeping brush housing 13 .
  • the rotation can be performed by a dedicated drive or by hand via the rotating device 6 .
  • the sweeping brush housing is shown in FIG. 3 rotated 90° with respect to the working direction.
  • the brush hoses 12 , the sweeping brush 2 and the wear pates are freely accessible.
  • the ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 can be installed and removed laterally pivotable support arm 16 .
  • ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 After loosening the fastening of the ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 the ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 can be swung outwards from the sweeping brush housing 13 into a transfer position by means of the support arm 16 of a transfer device arranged laterally on the machine frame 15 and there lifted by means of a lifting device 20 fastened to the frame and stowed on the machine.
  • a new ballast-sweeping brush 21 can be installed in reverse order.
  • FIG. 4 schematically shows a track ballast levelling apparatus 1 which has a cross-conveyor belt instead of the steep conveyor belt and the silo.
  • the cross-conveyor belt 18 and the material guide 11 are arranged on the machine frame 15 so as to be displaceable by means of an adjusting drive between the sweeping position ( FIG. 4 ) and a maintenance position ( FIG. 5 ) clearing a pivoting range for the sweeping brush housing 13 .
  • the ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 is provided with a conveyor belt arranged transversely to the longitudinal direction of the track, which discharges the ballast picked up by the ballast-sweeping brush 2 , 12 to the left or right of the track.
  • the material guide 11 is in turn displaceable with the transverse conveyor belt 18 in the working direction A from the sweeping position to the maintenance position.
  • the ballast-sweeping brush 2 is arranged in the machine frame 15 rotated by 180°, which makes it possible to work with the ballast-sweeping brush in both directions. Such a position can also be achieved with the device in FIGS. 2 and 3 .

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