Mobile Waterjet Rail Repair System
AssigneeHypertherm, Inc.
InventorJoep Jacobs
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Abstract
A translatable, ultra-high pressure liquid jet system includes a translatable frame configured to maintain mechanical contact with a rail. The liquid jet system includes a liquid jet processing head affixed to the frame and configured to maintain a distance from the rail and provide a liquid jet that contacts the rail. The liquid jet system also includes an ultra-high pressure liquid pump in fluid communication with the liquid jet processing head. The ultra-high pressure liquid pump is configured to supply pressurized liquid to the liquid jet processing head.
Claims14
A method of operating an ultra-high pressure liquid jet system, the method comprising:
- positioning, relative to a rail, a translatable frame having a liquid jet processing head fluidly connected to an ultra-high pressure liquid pump;
- providing, to the liquid jet processing head, via the ultra-high pressure liquid pump, a pressurized fluid forming a liquid jet that contacts the rail;
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- translating the liquid jet processing head relative to the rail, thereby performing a processing operation on a linear length of the rail along a direction of translation of the rail.
A method of operating an ultra-high pressure liquid jet system, the method comprising:
- positioning, on two rails spaced at a distance from each other, a translatable frame having (i) a set of wheels for contacting the two rails, and (ii) two sets of three liquid jet processing heads fluidly connected to an ultra-high pressure liquid pump, each set of three liquid jet processing heads aimed at one of the two rails;
- providing, to the two sets of three liquid jet processing heads, from the ultra-high pressure liquid pump, pressurized fluid forming two sets of three liquid jets that contact the two rails;
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- translating the frame relative to the rails, thereby performing a processing operation on a linear length of the rails along a direction of translation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.