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Machine for setting tie plates and the like

  • US 3,943,858 A
  • Filed: 02/12/1973
  • Issued: 03/16/1976
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/12/1973
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. In a machine for setting tie plates on top of the ties for a railroad track, a wheeled frame adapted to be moved along the track, a laterally disposed conveyor on the frame for bringing plates into the frame from the shoulder of the right-of-way, and a plate handler on the frame for lowering the plates, one at a time, for a conveyor to the ties constructed and arranged so that the plates will contact the top of the ties with their lower surfaces generally parallel to the upper surface of the ties and with a minimum of free fall thereafter so that the tie plates will be accurately positioned on the ties.

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