METHOD FOR SPREADING AND PLANING THE RUBBLE BALLAST OF RAILWAY TRACK Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: repairs of railway tracks. SUBSTANCE: machine comprises a frame consisting of two articulated parts which rest on travelling bogies. The front end of the frame carries a ballast section planer, a rubble hopper and an inclined belt conveyor. The other part of the frame carries a device for picking up the surplus rubble, consisting of a sweeping brush and a conveyor whose discharge end is positioned above the hopper. Installed above the receiving end of the conveyor is a rubble-loading funnel located in the zone where rubble is received from the sweeping brush. The second part of the frame carries an inclined rubble-conveying chute whose discharge end is positioned above the rubble funnel. EFFECT: improved design. 5 cl, 2 dwg