METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF UNDERCARRIAGE AND UNDER-CAR EQUIPMENT OF RAILWAY CARS BY DIPPING FROM SNOW AND ICE Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC B61K13/00 B60S3/00 B60S3/04 

FIELD: transportation.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the railway transport. According to method for cleaning snow, ice, oil and mud deposits of undercarriage and under-rail car equipment by dipping, bath is made, which is a trench buried at height from its bottom to car bottom of wagons, along the bottom of which compressed air pipelines with nozzles are laid. At bottom of bath there mounted are accelerators of air-drop mixture, which are cylindrical drums with blades. Water is collected in bath and heated, running gear and wagons under-car equipment are dipped into bath. Injected air is forced in said pipelines, which comes out of nozzles, forming air-droplet medium with droplets, having additional energy from rotating drums with blades, and cleaning running gear and undercarriage of cars from snow, ice, oil and mud deposits.

EFFECT: simplified installation and maintenance of cleaning equipment, reduced power consumption of the method.

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