DEVICE FOR ITEM-BY-ITEM DELIVERY OF SPIKES FROM PILE Russian patent published in 2000 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; mechanization of track skeleton assembling at track machine stations. SUBSTANCE: proposed device has housing, endless chain, sprockets and working members secured on chain at preset pitch. Working members are made in form of magnetic shoes. All sprockets are coaxially and rigidly secured on common drive shaft installed in upper part of housing and provided additionally with several inclined troughs. Each trough is secured on housing by its intake part, is orientated by axis in plane of rotation of corresponding sprocket, and is furnished with flexible scraper- tripper installed in place of trough-to- housing connection so that its working edge is in contact with magnetic shoe in place where endless chain passes over drive sprocket. EFFECT: dispensing with manual labour in delivering of spikes from pile to track skeleton assembling line. 2 dwg