HOPPER-BATCHER Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; maintenance and repair of permanent way. SUBSTANCE: machine has frame resting on running bogies. Mounted on frame are the following devices: ballast cutout device, bed cutout device, broken stone hopper, screen for cleaning cut out ballast, conveyor for removing litter and contaminants, conveyor for cleaned ballast and device for distributing clean crushed stone and protection layer material. Device for cutting out bed material communicates with conveyor for litter and contaminants and is installed below ballast cutting out device. Two additional conveyors are installed on machine frame, one of which being installed for displacement, and the other, for turning. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 6 cl, 6 dwg