Machine for renewal of sleepers and ballast under raised railway track
AssigneesMATIS Material Industrial SA, Joerg Ganz
InventorJoerg Ganz
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Abstract
A machine for the renewal of sleepers of a track having rails and for the cleaning of exposed ballast after removal of old sleepers, includes a machine frame which is movable on a rail bogie on the track, a screening plant and a clearing device having a collection device for collecting ballast. A sleeper transport device includes a sleeper gripper, rotatable about a vertical axis, between two end-positioned rail bogies, connected to the machine frame, and being displaceable in a longitudinal direction of the machine. The sleeper transport device is displaceable from a front end position (with respect to a working direction) provided for picking up new sleepers by the collection device for collecting ballast, to a rear end position configured to deposit the new sleepers.
Claims4
A machine for the renewal of sleepers of a track having rails and for the cleaning of exposed ballast after removal of old sleepers, the machine comprising:
- a machine frame being movable on a rail bogie on the track defining a working direction;
- a screening plant for screening ballast;
- a clearing device having a collection device for collecting ballast;
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- a sleeper transport device being provided between two end-positioned rail bogies, being connected to said machine frame, being displaceable in a longitudinal direction of the machine and having a sleeper gripper for removing old sleepers as well as for positioning new sleepers and being rotatable about a vertical axis;
- said sleeper transport device being displaceable from a front end position, relative to said working direction, for picking up new sleepers, over said collection device for collecting ballast, to a rear end position for depositing the new sleepers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.