US3589298A - Surface ballast temper - Google Patents

Surface ballast temper Download PDF

Info

Publication number
US3589298A
US3589298A US824122A US3589298DA US3589298A US 3589298 A US3589298 A US 3589298A US 824122 A US824122 A US 824122A US 3589298D A US3589298D A US 3589298DA US 3589298 A US3589298 A US 3589298A
Authority
US
United States
Prior art keywords
track
support means
mobile apparatus
ballast
tamping
Prior art date
Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
Expired - Lifetime
Application number
US824122A
Other languages
English (en)
Inventor
Franz Plasser
Josef Theuer
Current Assignee (The listed assignees may be inaccurate. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation or warranty as to the accuracy of the list.)
Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen Industrie GmbH
Original Assignee
Individual
Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the date listed.)
Filing date
Publication date
Application filed by Individual filed Critical Individual
Application granted granted Critical
Publication of US3589298A publication Critical patent/US3589298A/en
Anticipated expiration legal-status Critical
Expired - Lifetime legal-status Critical Current

Links

Images

Classifications

    • 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
    • E01B27/12—Packing sleepers, with or without concurrent work on the track; Compacting track-carrying ballast
    • E01B27/13—Packing sleepers, with or without concurrent work on the track
    • E01B27/16—Sleeper-tamping machines
    • E01B27/17—Sleeper-tamping machines combined with means for lifting, levelling or slewing the track
    • 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
    • E01B27/12—Packing sleepers, with or without concurrent work on the track; Compacting track-carrying ballast
    • E01B27/13—Packing sleepers, with or without concurrent work on the track
    • 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
    • E01B2203/08—Levelling ballast or ground beneath
    • E01B2203/086—Rotating brooms
    • 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
    • E01B2203/16—Guiding or measuring means, e.g. for alignment, canting, stepwise propagation

Definitions

  • a ballast-tamping unit includes two pairs of surfi gf fg g face tampers fixedly mounted on two legs of two carrier ele- 1 rawmg ments.
  • a common crank shaft supports the two carrier ele- U.S. Cl 104/ 12 ments independently and vibrates the elements upon rotation Int. Cl ..E0lb 27/16, thereof.
  • the carrier elements movevfreely in a plane perpen- E01 b 27/20 dicular to the crankshaft, and the crankshaft is supported for Field of Search 104/7, 8, free movement in a plane perpendicular thereto.
  • the unit is 12, 10 12 vertically adjustably mounted.
  • the present invention relates to mobile apparatus for sur face tamping the ballast along each side of a track rail between adjacent ties.
  • ballast tamping unit which includes two pairs of surface tampers and two carrier elements each consisting of a crossmember and two legs extending from the crossmember, the pairs of surface tampers being fixedly mounted on the two legs of a respective carrier element.
  • a common crank shaft extends in a plane vertical to the track, which may be parallel to the track rails or the ties, and supports the two carrier elements independently and for free movement perpendicular to the plane.
  • the crankshaft vibrates the carrier elements suspended thereon upon rotation of the shaft.
  • Support means supports the ballast-tamping unit for free movement in this plane of a plane parallel thereto, and means is provided on the apparatus for mounting the support means vertically adjustably on the apparatus.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a mobile machine for surface tamping the ballast along each side of a tract rail between adjacent ties;
  • FIG. 2 is a front view of a ballast-tamping unit according to this invention, partially in a section transverse to the track;
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic side view of a conventional trackleveling and lining machine incorporating ballast-tamping units in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a schematic top view showing two ballast-tamping units associated with the respective track rails.
  • FIG. l the invention is illustrated in conjunction with a machine for surface tamping the ballast alongside the track rails between adjacent ties, the ties 1 resting on ballast 3 and carrying track rails 2 on which the carriage frame 16 is supported for mobility on the track by means of running gears 17, 17.
  • the machine moves in the direction of the arrow, to the left in the drawing, and the surface tampers are shown mounted at the front end of the carriage frame 16.
  • a mobile surface tamping apparatus of this type may be used in track maintenance work immediately subsequent to the leveling and/or lining and tamping of the track, or it may be used independently.
  • each unit has four surface tampers 4 mounted in respect of a respective track rail and the ties in the manner best seen in FIG. 4.
  • the carrier elements extend on respective sides of a track rail 2 in vertical planes parallel thereto while the surface tampers of each pair are mounted on respective sides of a tie 1 for surface engagement with the ballast between adjacent ties.
  • a common crankshaft 7 extends in a plane vertical to the track and parallel to the ties.
  • the crank shaft supports the two carrier elements independently and for free movement perpendicular to the plane in which the shaft extends, i.e. in vertical planes parallel to the track.
  • the crankshaft has two crank portions whereon the carrier elements 5, 5 are joumaled laterally adjacent respective sides of the track rail (see FIG. 2), and the two crank portions are staggered in, relation to each other in the plane of the shaft.
  • a drive means constituted by motor 6, is provided for rotating the crank shaft and thereby to vibrate the carrier elements 5, which are freely suspended on the crank portions of the shaft, thus to impart vibration to the surface tampers 4. Since the crank portions are staggered in opposite directions, the vibrations imparted to the support means for the tamping unit will be properly balanced.
  • two like tamping units are vertically adjustably mounted symmetrically on a common central guide for surface tamping the ballast adjacent each of the track rails 2.
  • a support means supports each ballast tamping unit for free movement in the plane of its crankshaft or a plane parallel thereto, i.e. transversely of the track.
  • the support means for each ballast tamping unit includes a main carrier member 10 and an intermediate carrier member 8.
  • a pivot pin 9 extending in the direction of track elongation interconnects the main and intermediate carrier members so that the intermediate member 8 is pivotal on the main member 10 in a direction transversely to the track.
  • the surface tampers 4 are freely movably in directions parallel and transverse to the track elongation for proper contact with ballast portions to be tamped thereby.
  • the main carrier member is a two-armed bracket whose arms extend in opposite directions from the vertical guide post 12 towards the track rails 2, 2, the centrally positioned vertical guide serving to mount the bracket 10 vertically adjustably on the apparatus.
  • the vertical guide post 12 is mounted between two brackets extending from a sliding block 14 which runs on transverse rails at the front end of the carriage frame 16 so as to enable the ballast-tamping units to be transversely moved in respect of the track.
  • This transverse movement may be effected by a hydraulic motor 15 connected to the sliding block.
  • Another hydraulic motor 13 is mounted on one of the brackets supporting the vertical guide post and has its piston rod connected to the support bracket 10 of the ballast-tamping units to provide a drive for vertically moving the units and for exerting downward pressure thereon to force the units and for exerting downward pressure thereon to force the vibrating surface tampers into engagement with the surface of the ballast during tamping.
  • ballast broom 18 is mounted at the rear end of the carriage frame on pivotal carrier arms 19 so as to be movable: into and out of engagement with the railroad bed.
  • Ballast brooms useful for this purpose usually comprise lengths of hose or like flexible elements extending radially from a rotatable shaft to clean the surfaces of the ties and evenly to distribute the ballast over the entire bed.
  • a machine of this type may include a carriage frame 20 having a front portion which vertically adjustably supports two tamper units 21 arranged for simultaneously tamping the ballast underneath two adjacent spaces between ties l. Tampers of this type have been disclosed and claimed, for instance in our U.S. Pats. Nos. 3,372,651 and 3,357,366. Combining the surface tampers of the present invention with this type of machine has the particular advantage that surface tamping will be simultaneously effected in the same number of spaces as tamping under the ties.
  • track-leveling and -grading machines include a track-raising apparatus 22 at the front end of the machine whose operation is controlled by a reference system including the stop 23 cooperating with a with reference line 24 extending to point 25 supported in fixed relationship to the previously graded track portion on which it rests.
  • the track-lining apparatus 26 is mounted intermediate the running gears of elongated carriage frame 20, all of this structure being conventional.
  • the surface tamping units of the present invention are mounted at the rear end of carriage frame 20 in a manner similar to the mounting shown at the front end of the carriage frame in FIG. 1.
  • the vertical guide post 12 is also movable on its support bracket in the direction of track elongation by adjustment means 27.
  • FIG. 4 shows the surface tamping units in operative position in relation to the track, a preceding position being indicated in broken lines.
  • the main carrier member may be joumaled on the vertical guide post for rotation about the axis thereof.
  • crankshaft of the surface-tamping unit has been shown to extend transversely of the track and the tamper carrier elements accordingly in the direction of track elongation, this relationship could be reversed so that the tampers are mounted for free movement on the crank shaft in a plane extending in the direction of the ties.
  • crank shaft and the vertically adjustable support means therefor are so arranged that the downward pressure on all the tampers freely suspended from a common crankshaft is always evenly distributed and that each tamper pair may be individually adjusted in relation to the ballast surface.
  • a mobile apparatus for simultaneously tamping the ballast along each side of a track rail and along each side of a tie between adjacent ties of a track comprising 1. a ballast-tamping unit associated with each of the rails,
  • each unit including a. two pairs of vibratory surface tampers, each tamper having a tamping element for surface contact engatement with the ballast,
  • two carrier elements each consisting of a crossmember and two legs extending from the cross member, a respective one of the pairs of surface tampers being fixedly mounted on a respective one of the two legs of a respective on of the carrier elements, said carrier elements extending in first parallel planes perpendicular to the track plane, and
  • a common support means extending in a second plane perpendicular to the first planes and to the track plane, one of said first and second planes extending in the direction of the track rails and the other one of said planes extending in the direction of the ties, the common support means pivotally supporting the two and in such alignment that each two of said surface tampers are positioned in planes parallel to the second p ane whereby the four surface tampers of each ballast-tamping unit are positionable along each side of a track rail and along each side of a tie at a point where the rail and the tie intersect carrier elements for free movement in the second plane; and
  • the common support means comprises a common crankshaft extending in said second plane through the two carrier elements for vibrating the two carrier elements and the surface tampers fixedly mounted thereon, the carrier elements being pivotally supported on the crankshaft.
  • crankshaft has two crank portions whereon the two carrier elements are journaled, the two crank portions being staggered in ralation to each other.
  • the support means comprises a main carrier member and an intermediate carrier member, a pivot interconnects the main and intermediate carrier members for pivotally supporting the intermediate carrier member in the second plane, the intermediate carrier member supports the crank shaft, and a drive means is mounted on the intermediate carrier for rotating the crankshaft.
  • the support means mounting means includes a vertical guide mounted on the apparatus intermediate the track rails, the main carrier member is a two-armed bracket, the arms of the bracket extending in opposite directions from the vertical guide towards the track rails, and a respective one of the intermediate carrier members is pivotally mounted on a respective on of the bracket arms.
  • the mobile apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a carriage frame mounted for mobility on the track, the support means mounting means being transversely movably mounted on the carriage frame.
  • the mobile apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a hydraulic motor drive for vertically adjusting the support means and for exerting a downward pressure upon the ballasttamping units upon downward movement thereof.
  • the mobile apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a carriage frame mounted for mobility on the track, the support means mounting means being arranged at one end of the carriage frame.
  • the carriage frame constitutes the frame of a track leveling and lining machine, said frame carries, forwardly in the working direction of the apparatus, two tamper units arranged for simultaneously tamping the ballast underneath two adjacent spaces between the ties, and said support means mounting means for the surface-tamping units are mounted rearwardly thereof.

Landscapes

  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Architecture (AREA)
  • Civil Engineering (AREA)
  • Structural Engineering (AREA)
  • Machines For Laying And Maintaining Railways (AREA)
US824122A 1968-05-14 1969-05-13 Surface ballast temper Expired - Lifetime US3589298A (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (1)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
AT465368A AT309505B (de) 1968-05-14 1968-05-14 Fahrbare Maschine zum Verdichten der Schotterbettung eines Gleises

Publications (1)

Publication Number Publication Date
US3589298A true US3589298A (en) 1971-06-29

Family

ID=3566679

Family Applications (1)

Application Number Title Priority Date Filing Date
US824122A Expired - Lifetime US3589298A (en) 1968-05-14 1969-05-13 Surface ballast temper

Country Status (6)

Country Link
US (1) US3589298A (xx)
JP (1) JPS4839401B1 (xx)
AT (1) AT309505B (xx)
CH (1) CH508098A (xx)
FR (1) FR2008487A1 (xx)
GB (1) GB1265575A (xx)

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3701320A (en) * 1971-02-12 1972-10-31 Morrison Knudsen Co Method and apparatus for laying railroad ties on a prepared road surface
US3796160A (en) * 1971-11-29 1974-03-12 British Railways Board Maintenance of railway track
US3828679A (en) * 1972-05-30 1974-08-13 H Helgemeir Tool for ballast compacting machine
US4257331A (en) * 1977-10-04 1981-03-24 Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft M.B.H. Track surfacing machine
US4939998A (en) * 1987-07-23 1990-07-10 Fran Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H. Ballast tamping machine
US5862759A (en) * 1996-01-25 1999-01-26 Mauli; Enzo Self-propelled machine for stabilizing, by hammering and compacting, tracks laid on ballast
US9441330B2 (en) 2013-02-25 2016-09-13 Harsco Corporation Device for generating vertical force with rotating mass

Families Citing this family (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
ITMI20080139A1 (it) * 2008-01-30 2009-07-31 So Re Ma Ferroviaria S P A Macchina operatrice per binari ferroviari

Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2107639A (en) * 1932-07-01 1938-02-08 Robert E Madison Railway ballasting machine
US2497682A (en) * 1950-02-14 Railroad ballast tamper and equalizer
US3111909A (en) * 1958-10-30 1963-11-26 Plasser Franz Mobile track tamper assembly
US3372651A (en) * 1965-03-19 1968-03-12 Plasser Franz Track tamping machine

Patent Citations (4)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2497682A (en) * 1950-02-14 Railroad ballast tamper and equalizer
US2107639A (en) * 1932-07-01 1938-02-08 Robert E Madison Railway ballasting machine
US3111909A (en) * 1958-10-30 1963-11-26 Plasser Franz Mobile track tamper assembly
US3372651A (en) * 1965-03-19 1968-03-12 Plasser Franz Track tamping machine

Cited By (7)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3701320A (en) * 1971-02-12 1972-10-31 Morrison Knudsen Co Method and apparatus for laying railroad ties on a prepared road surface
US3796160A (en) * 1971-11-29 1974-03-12 British Railways Board Maintenance of railway track
US3828679A (en) * 1972-05-30 1974-08-13 H Helgemeir Tool for ballast compacting machine
US4257331A (en) * 1977-10-04 1981-03-24 Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft M.B.H. Track surfacing machine
US4939998A (en) * 1987-07-23 1990-07-10 Fran Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H. Ballast tamping machine
US5862759A (en) * 1996-01-25 1999-01-26 Mauli; Enzo Self-propelled machine for stabilizing, by hammering and compacting, tracks laid on ballast
US9441330B2 (en) 2013-02-25 2016-09-13 Harsco Corporation Device for generating vertical force with rotating mass

Also Published As

Publication number Publication date
JPS4839401B1 (xx) 1973-11-24
DE1922604B2 (de) 1977-03-10
CH508098A (de) 1971-05-31
AT309505B (de) 1973-08-27
FR2008487A1 (xx) 1970-01-23
GB1265575A (xx) 1972-03-01
DE1922604A1 (de) 1969-11-20

Similar Documents

Publication Publication Date Title
US3795198A (en) Mobile track tamper for continuously correcting a track position
US3919943A (en) Track surfacing method
US5419259A (en) Machine for compacting track ballast with variable gauge track stabilizer
US3669025A (en) Tamper unit for mobile track tamping machine
US4094250A (en) Mobile track tamping machine
US3589298A (en) Surface ballast temper
MX9301921A (es) Maquina calzadora de vias con una unidad calzadora de dos durmientes .
JP2574415B2 (ja) 連続的に走行可能な軌道工事機
US4046078A (en) Track surfacing apparatus
DE59600339D1 (de) Maschine zum Stabilisieren eines Gleises
US3675581A (en) Mobile track tamping machine
CA2041302A1 (en) Ballast tamping machine
HUT56902A (en) Railway line-packing, levelling and controlling machine with swing line-packing aggregate
US4953467A (en) Track surfacing machine with track stabilization
US4090451A (en) Mobile track tamping machine that tamps three successive cribs
US4258627A (en) Ballast tamping
US3120194A (en) Ballast tamping machine
RU96118867A (ru) Машина для демонтажа старого и укладки нового рельсового пути
US3731409A (en) Ballast compacting and leveling apparatus
US2969749A (en) Mobile track tamping machine
US3682101A (en) Mobile track surfacing machine
ATE81370T1 (de) Kontinuierlich verfahrbare gleisstopfmaschine mit pfluganordnung.
US3719150A (en) Mobile track tamper
SU1547714A3 (ru) Шпалоподбивочна машина
US3690263A (en) Track lining apparatus