Track renewal machgine
AssigneeFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
InventorsJosef Theurer, Manfred Brunninger
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Abstract
A track renewal machine comprises an elongated machine frame supported on undercarriages for mobility in an operating direction, a device for receiving ties of an old track mounted on the machine frame, a device for planing the ballast bed mounted on the machine frame, the planing device comprising a planing shield extending transversely to the machine frame and two transversely spaced boundary shields extending in the longitudinal direction at respective sides of the planing shield, and a device for laying ties of a new track mounted on the machine frame and positioned between the boundary shields.
Claims9
A machine for removing an old track and laying a new track on a ballast bed having a shoulder, each track being comprised of rails fastened to ties, which comprises
- (a) an elongated machine frame extending in a longitudinal direction and supported on undercarriages for mobility in an operating direction,
- (b) a device for receiving ties of the old track mounted on the machine frame,
- (c) a device for planing the ballast bed mounted on the machine frame, the planing device comprising
- (1) a planing shield extending transversely to the machine frame and
- (2) two transversely spaced boundary shields extending in the longitudinal direction at respective sides of the planing shield, and
- (d) a device for laying ties of the new track mounted on the machine frame and positioned between the boundary shields.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.