E01B 29/17
Lengths of rails assembled into strings
Official title: Lengths of rails assembled into strings, e.g. welded together
E01B29/17 (Lengths of rails assembled into strings) appears on 43 US grants and 39 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in E01B- Granted patents
- 43
- Published applications
- 39
- Assignees
- 26
- Inventors
- 58
- Latest grant
- 28 Jul 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Initial and final methods for laying long rails28 Jul 2026US 12,692,668 B2Matisa Materiel Industriel S.A.
- Mobile device for heating a rail of a permanent way using infrared-radiation electric lamps, and associated heating method24 Jun 2025US 12,338,583 B2Matisa Material Industriel S.A.
- Method for fixing a rail of a rail track with thermal conditioning of a rail portion, and associated rail machine22 Apr 2025US 12,281,370 B2Matisa Materiel Industriel S.A.
- Method and device for laying rail for rail transit22 Apr 2025US 12,281,447 B2
- Articulated rail-transport car2 Jan 2024US 11,858,541 B2Herzog Railroad Services, Inc.
- Low profile rail clamp assembly21 Aug 2025US 2025/0263892 A1Herzog Railroad Services, Inc.
- Method for renewing rails of a railway track with new long rails, and associated work train14 Sep 2023US 2023/0287632 A1Matisa Materiel Industriel S.A.
- Initial and final methods for laying long rails7 Sep 2023US 2023/0279616 A1Matisa Materiel Industriel S.A.
- Long Rail Transport Train2 Feb 2023US 2023/0033154 A1BNSF Logistics, LLC
- Method and device for laying rail for rail transit15 Sep 2022US 2022/0290379 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of welding continuous rails and apparatus therefor25US 4,414,454 AH. A. Schlatter AG · 1983
- Apparatus for replacing rail fastening elements and, optionally, rails19US 4,393,784 AFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m. b. H. · 1983
- Device for the substitution of the rails of railway tracks18US 5,181,472 ALes Fils d'Auguste Scheuchzer S. A. · 1993
- Rail loading train for transporting as well as loading and unloading long rails17US 5,630,365 AGeorg Robel GmbH & Co. · 1997
- Method and apparatus for unloading ribbon rails from rail cars17US 6,981,452 B2Herzog Contracting Corp. · 2006