Rail processing device and method
AssigneeS.P.D. S.P.A.
InventorsGiuseppe Filosa, Giovanni Cosmai, Matteo Cipolla
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Abstract
A rail processing device (1) comprising at least a first (3A) and a second work station (3B) provided on a common frame (30), and configured to alternately lock a rail (2) when the latter is being processed, each work station (3A, 3B) comprising at least a first magnetic anchorage plane (4) configured to cooperate with a web (2A) of the rail (2) when the latter is being processed in the respective station, and a transport system (50A, 50B) to move the rail (2) from the first work station (3A) to the second work station (3B) and vice versa.
Claims17
Rail processing device (1) comprising at least a first (3A) and a second work station (3B) provided on a common frame (30), the first and the second work station being configured to alternately hold a rail (2) when the rail is being processed, each work station (3A, 3B) comprising at least a respective first magnetic anchorage device, each first magnetic anchorage device comprising a respective planar anchorage surface (4) configured to cooperate with a web (2A) of a rail (2) when the rail is being processed in the respective one of the work stations, and the rail processing device further comprising a transport system (50A, 50B) for transporting the rail (2) from the first magnetic anchorage device of the first work station (3A) to the first magnetic anchorage device of the second work station (3B) and vice versa, the transport system (50A, 50B) comprising at least one shuttle translatable between the first (3A) and the second (3B) work station, the at least one shuttle having at least one locking apparatus for locking the rail (2) during transport of the rail from the first work station (3A) to the second work station (3B) and vice versa.
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