Railway sleepers and methods thereof
AssigneeBraskem S.A.
InventorsAldo Marconi Wessen Machado, Jesus Waldemar Golçalves da Silva, Renato Teixeira Vargas, Walter Vidon Junior
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Abstract
A railroad sleeper for fixation of at least one pair of rails of a railroad network, the railroad sleeper may include a contact surface, wherein each rail of the pair of rails is fixed thereto spaced apart from each other; anchorage walls extending downward from the contact surface, and having a support point at a bottom surface thereof, the anchorage walls having at least one aperture formed therein; and a void delimited by the contact surface and anchorage walls.
Claims17
A railroad sleeper for fixation of at least one pair of rails of a railroad network, the railroad sleeper comprising:
- a contact surface, wherein each rail of the pair of rails is fixed thereto and spaced apart from each other;
- anchorage walls extending downward from the contact surface, and having a support point at a bottom surface thereof, the anchorage walls having at least one aperture formed therein;
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- a void delimited by the contact surface and anchorage walls.
A fastening block for use with a railroad sleeper to fix at least one pair of rails of a railroad network, the fastening block comprising at least one aperture or void space formed therein.
A railroad structure assembly, comprising:
- a railroad sleeper for fixation of at least one pair of rails of a railroad network, the railroad sleeper comprising:
- a contact surface, wherein each rail of a pair of rails is fixed to the contact surface and spaced apart from each other;
- anchorage walls extending downward from the contact surface;
- and
- a void space delimited by the contact surface and anchorage walls;
- and
- at least one fastening block present within the void space at a portion of the railroad sleeper corresponding to a location of a rail,
- wherein at least one of the anchorage walls or the at least one fastening block has apertures formed therein or the at least one fastening block has a void space formed therein.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.