Method for manufacturing a railway track support, associated railway track support and railway installation
AssigneeAlstom Transport Technologies
InventorAndrea Ninni
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Abstract
This method for manufacturing a railway track support comprising a plurality of prefabricated elements (28) comprises the following successive steps: providing, in a production zone (16) for prefabricated elements (28) located near an installation zone (14), a movable insertion machine (52) configured to arrange at least one insert (34) in a fresh concrete block, the production zone being separate from the installation zone; pouring and shaping fresh concrete in order to form individual fresh concrete blocks having predetermined dimensions; arranging at least one insert in each fresh concrete block using the movable insertion machine (52); drying the fresh concrete blocks to obtain the prefabricated elements (28).
Claims10
A method for manufacturing a railway track support, the railway track support comprising a plurality of prefabricated elements with predetermined dimensions assembled to one another, wherein said method comprises:
- providing a movable insertion machine configured to arrange at least one insert in a fresh concrete block, the movable insertion machine being provided in a production zone for producing the plurality of prefabricated elements at a location near an installation zone that receives railway track, the production zone being separate from the installation zone;
- forming said fresh concrete block by pouring and shaping fresh concrete so that said fresh concrete block will be formed having the predetermined dimensions, and repeating said forming as needed in order to obtain a plurality of said fresh concrete blocks
- arranging at least one insert in each said fresh concrete block in the plurality of said fresh concrete blocks using the movable insertion machine;
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- drying the plurality of said fresh concrete blocks to obtain the plurality of prefabricated elements.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.