REINFORCED RAIL BRACE Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC E01B9/30 E01B9/48 E01B9/60 

FIELD: construction.

SUBSTANCE: reinforced rail brace comprises an anchor fixed on a sleeper, a rail pad, a spring terminal that elastically pressed a transition pad of L-shaped cross section. The reinforced rail joint is equipped with a wedge spacer installed between a transition pad and an anchor with the possibility to put rails in the horizontal plane and an adjustment spacer installed between the anchor and the spring terminal with the possibility to vary effort of rails pressing to the rail pad and the sleeper with the spring terminal. The transition pad is made of an electric insulation material as a single entity with the spring terminal and is installed on the anchor with an additional support at the rail journal at the distance of its upper surface from the lower surface of the rail head, providing for passage of devices for gripping the rail head during track repair. At the other side of the rail the transition pad is made as lowered without additional thrust at the rail journal.

EFFECT: lower labour intensiveness of rail joints servicing on track, higher reliability and efficiency of operation.

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