TRACK LINER Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; repair of permanent way. SUBSTANCE: machine has frame resting on running bogies. The following devices are installed on frame according to sequence of operation: ballast loosener, including vertical vibration generator, track lining device, plows for smoothing out and delivering of ballast to slots at sleeper end faces, rippers and compactors of ballast. As a result of ballast loosening at end faces of sleepers and under action of vibrations supplied by generator, ballast gets looser in zone of contact with rail skeleton which decreases skeleton shifting forces to be built by power cylinders when lining the track. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 5 cl, 3 dwg