System for thermal treatment of rails
AssigneePrimetals Technologies Italy S.R.L.
InventorsSimone Andreotti, Davide Crespi, Alberto Gioachino Lainati, Stefano Roselli
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Abstract
A system thermally treats rails. The system has a cooling device for spraying a cooling medium onto a rail to be treated. The cooling device defines a cooling path for receiving the rail to be treated. A conveyor moves the rail to be thermally treated through the cooling path. A vertically displacing device for displacing at least one of the cooling devices for adjusting a position of the one cooling device relative to the rail to be treated.
Claims14
A system for thermally treating rails, the system comprising:
- cooling devices for spraying a cooling medium onto a rail to be treated, said cooling devices defining a cooling path for receiving the rail to be treated;
- a conveyor for moving the rail to be thermally treated through said cooling path;
- a vertically displacing device for displacing at least one of said cooling devices to adjust a position of said one cooling device relative to the rail to be treated;
- a plurality of cooling supports overlooking, in operation, said conveyor, each of said cooling supports carrying at least one of said cooling devices;
- a first cooling block having a first set of said cooling supports linked together, said first cooling block being connectable to said vertically displacing device to form said cooling path;
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- at least one second cooling block having second pipes and a second set of said cooling supports linked together by said second pipes to supply a second type of said cooling device, said first cooling block being interchangeable with said at least one second cooling block, said second cooling block being also connectable to said vertically displacing device to form said cooling path.
A system for thermally treating rails, the system comprising:
- cooling devices for spraying a cooling medium onto a rail to be treated, said cooling devices defining a cooling path for receiving the rail to be treated;
- a conveyor for moving the rail to be thermally treated through said cooling path;
- a vertically displacing device for displacing at least one of said cooling devices to adjust a position of said one cooling device relative to the rail to be treated;
- a plurality of cooling supports overlooking, in operation, said conveyor, each of said cooling supports carrying at least one of said cooling devices;
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- retracting means for moving at least one of said cooling supports between a working position wherein said one cooling support is disposed above said conveyor and a non-working position wherein said one cooling support is disposed beside said conveyor.
A system for thermally treating rails, the system comprising:
- cooling devices for spraying a cooling medium onto a rail to be treated, said cooling devices defining a cooling path for receiving the rail to be treated;
- a conveyor for moving the rail to be thermally treated through said cooling path;
- and
- a vertically displacing device for displacing at least one of said cooling devices to adjust a position of said one cooling device relative to the rail to be treated;
- said vertically displacing device for vertically displacing said cooling devices, including:
- at least one deformable parallelogram having a plurality of sides and with one of said sides fixed;
- a plurality of supporting arms, each of said supporting arms being linked to said at least one deformable parallelogram;
- and a drive secured to said at least one deformable parallelogram, actuation of said drive provoking deformation of said at least one deformable parallelogram and vertical translation of at least one of said supporting arms.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.