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US 3,942,448 AGranted
Apparatus for consolidating ballast
AssigneeBASF SE
InventorsOlaf Unbehaun, Uwe Hampel, Norbert Scholz, Horst Gassmann, Walter Schneider, Heinz Hesser, Walter Herrmann, Bertold Bechert
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Abstract
A track or switch tamping machine wherein the machine includes tamping and ramming units having longitudinal ducts for injecting liquid binder into the ballast. The longitudinal ducts terminate in a plate or cavity within the lower portion of the tamping and ramming units. A nozzle is also included in the unit as is means for conveying liquid binder from a storage tank carried on the machine.
Claims3
Apparatus for tamping ballast and consolidating ballast with liquid binders which comprises:
- a. base means mounted on wheels for movement on rails of a train bed;
- b. storage means mounted on said base for holding said liquid binder;
- c. tamping and ramming units mounted on said base for contacting railroad ballast;
- d. a plurality of injection means within and combined with said tamping and ramming units for contacting said ballast with said binder, said injection means including an end piece capable of insertion into said ballast, a plurality of longitudinal ducts within said end piece and nozzle shaped bores in communication with said ducts;
- e. conveyor means for delivering said liquid binder from said storage means to said nozzle shaped bores under pressure;
- and,
- f. means for inserting said end piece into and removing said end piece from said ballast.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.