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US 4,506,424 AGranted
Automated railroad bearing handling machine
AssigneeUSM Corporation
InventorOtmar Ulbing
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Abstract
A machine for removing and installing bearings on the ends of wheel sets including a gage for measuring wheel size and for aligning the wheel sets with bearing removing or installing devices according to wheel size and for transporting the bearings automatically to and from a conveyor.
Claims2
In a machine for operating on bearings at opposite ends of wheel sets comprising an axle having a pair of railroad wheels press fitted thereon, the improvement comprising means for locating the axis of each wheel set in a particular plane;
- a gage having a probe movable along said plane into engagement with the periphery of at least one of the wheels for locating the axis of the wheel set, the gage including a gage plate having a secondary probe swingable about the point of engagement of the first named probe into engagement with the wheel periphery at a spaced location, a gaging surface assuming an angular disposition depending on the extent of swinging movement of the gage plate indicative of the location of the wheel set axis;
- a unit having a centerline for operating on the bearings of the wheel set;
- and an assembly for moving the wheel set along said plane a predetermined distance depending on the gaged location of said axis for aligning the wheel set axis with the centerline of operation of said unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.