Method and device for protecting wheelsets and a railroad bed from wear

The method for protecting wheelsets and a railroad bed from wear that consists in applying, for the purpose of protecting coupling components under mutual friction from wear, an anti-wear coating that consists of ductile metals in the form of films on the frictional surface of said coupling components by the selective transfer of ductile metal ions on the contacting surfaces of the components from the volume of the metal-plating ionisation solution located in the friction zone, wherein the solution, depending on the pressure arising in the friction zone of the coupling components, is supplied according to the intermittent or continuous injection scheme, characterised in that a device for controlling the supply of a metal-plating ionisation solution emits a signal for activating or deactivating an electromagnetic valve mounted on a heated air duct connected to a reservoir that contains the metal-plating ionisation solution;

• when the electromagnetic valve is activated, the heated air enters through the branched duct into the reservoir that contains the metal-plating ionisation solution and into the nozzles;
• the metal-plating ionisation solution, under air pressure, is supplied from the reservoir that contains the metal-plating ionisation solution into a tube passing through the heated air duct with a branch to each nozzle;
• in the nozzle bodies, the heated air is mixed with the metal-plating ionisation solution, and an air-liquid medium is supplied to the side inner edge of the head of the outer rail in the corresponding track curve by spraying it in the area where the wheel tyre cone diameter is equal to D2 and to the head of the inner rail in the corresponding track curve by spraying it in the area where the wheel tyre cone diameter is equal to D1, while D2>D1.