Process for supporting a railway track installation
OwnerGunter Frohninventor
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Abstract
A process for supporting a railway track installation is proposed, in which vehicle tires, preferably used tires, completely filled with ballast, are embedded under each tire in a ballast layer, forming the lateral embankment with their outer sections. These embedded vehicle tires form a hold for the ballast layer in the embankment area, so that lateral yielding of the corresponding ballast is prevented in this area, to a great extent. In addition, such a process offers the possibility of using the extremely large number of used tires which come from road vehicles.
Claims2
A method of building a reinforced railway track installation, said railway track including at least one rail and a plurality of ties perpendicular to said rail which constitute a plurality of rail/tie intersections, said method comprising the steps of:
- filling a plurality of rubber vehicle tires with ballast material;
- placing said tires onto a supporting surface;
- locating said tires so that there is one tire located concentrically below each adjacent rail/tire intersection;
- applying a layer of ballast material to fill any interstices between said tires and to form a lateral embankment adjacent to said rail;
- whereby an outer section of said tires extends into the vicinity of the lateral embankment to prevent
- shifting of the ballast material and thereby provide reinforcement for the lateral embankment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.