Handling machine for rails and handling process associated thereto
AssigneeDanieli & C. Officine Meccaniche SpA
InventorsAlfredo Poloni, Marco Schreiber
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Abstract
A handling machine for rails, arranged in line and immediately downstream of a rolling plant, which allows both to easily handle the rail for transferring it from the roller table to the thermal treatment zone, and to ensure an optimal gripping of the rail along its longitudinal extension, thus effectively contrasting its bending and variations while allowing a longitudinal movement of the rail caused by thermal shrinkage, thus avoiding damages both to the external surface of the rail and to the handlers. A rail handling process is also described, which optimizes moving, positioning along a roller table and maintaining the rail substantially rectilinear during the thermal treatment to which it is subjected.
Claims8
Handling machine for a rail provided with a head and a flange, the machine comprising:
- a plurality of moving means for taking and turning over the rail from a position inclined on a side thereof to a position wherein the head of the rail is turned upwards;
- a plurality of handlers provided with clamping means adapted to clamp the rail at the flange, and able to move the rail from said position wherein the head of the rail is turned upwards to a position wherein the head is turned downwards, wherein said moving means are configured to transfer the rail to the plurality of handlers, and comprise
- first levers adapted to be actuated by first actuating means and configured so that they move the rail from the position inclined on a side thereof, provided on a first resting plane, to the position with the head of the rail turned upwards and with a base of the flange resting on a second resting plane higher than said first resting plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.