Machine for treating a track

• US 6,647,892 B2
• Filed: 08/08/2002
• Issued: 11/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 08/24/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft MbH
• Original Assignee: Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-IndustrieGmbH
• Inventors: Theurer, Josef, Brunninger, Manfred
• Primary Examiner(s): Morano, S. Joseph
• Assistant Examiner(s): McCarry, Jr., Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US10/214,662
• Publication Number:
  US 20030037694A1
• Time in Patent Office: 467 Days
• Field of Search: 104/2, 104/7.1, 104/7.2, 104/10, 104/12
• US Class Current: 104/7.1
• CPC Class Codes: E01B 27/10 without taking-up track E01B27/11 takes precedence

Abstract

A track working machine includes a track-bound machine frame and a working unit mounted on the machine frame. A track lifting unit is vertically adjustably mounted on the machine frame and includes a tool frame, lifting drives connecting the tool frame for vertical adjustment to the machine frame, and flanged rollers for supporting the tool frame on each rail of the track. Two pairs of lifting rollers are mounted on the tool frame in the region of each rail, and spaced apart in longitudinal direction. Each pair has a transverse adjustment drive for squeezing the lifting rollers together transversely to the longitudinal direction, and a vertical adjustment drive for independent vertical adjustment of the lifting rollers relative to the tool frame. Distancing of the lifting rollers of each pair is coupled to automatic actuation of the associated adjustment drive for lowering the lifting rollers relative to the tool frame.

Claims

1. A machine for treating a track extending in a longitudinal direction and comprised of two rails fastened to ties supported on ballast, comprising

a) a machine frame supported for mobility on the track by undercarriages;

b) a working unit mounted on the machine frame; and

c) a track lifting unit vertically adjustably mounted on the machine frame and comprising

1) a tool frame;

2) lifting drives connecting the tool frame for vertical adjustment to the machine frame;

3) flanged rollers for supporting the tool frame on each rail of the track, respectively;

4) two pairs of lifting rollers, mounted on the tool frame in the region of each rail, respectively, and spaced from one another in the longitudinal direction, each pair having a transverse adjustment drive for squeezing the two lifting rollers together transversely to the longitudinal direction, and

5) a respective vertical adjustment drive for independent vertical adjustment of each pair of lifting rollers with respect to the tool frame, wherein a spacing-apart motion of the two lifting rollers of each pair by the transverse adjustment drive is coupled to an automatic actuation of the associated vertical adjustment drive for lowering the pair of lifting rollers with respect to the tool frame.

2. The machine of claim 1, wherein an actuation of the transverse adjustment drive for squeezing together both lifting rollers of a pair is coupled to an automatic actuation of the associated vertical adjustment drive for lifting the pair of lifting rollers with respect to the tool frame.

3. The machine of claim 1, and further comprising roller carriers vertically adjustably connected to the tool frame, wherein the two lifting rollers of each pair are jointly mounted on a respective one of the roller carriers.

4. The machine of claim 3, wherein each roller carrier has the shape of a hydraulic cylinder forming the vertical adjustment drive, and further comprising a respective vertical guide column connected to the tool frame for vertically adjustably supporting each roller carrier.

5. The machine of claim 1, and further comprising a sliding beam for common support of all pairs of lifting rollers, the sliding beam being mounted on the tool frame for displacement transversely to the longitudinal direction.

6. The machine of claim 5, and further comprising a displacement drive connected to the tool frame and the sliding beam.

7. The machine of claim 1, and further comprising a linkage connecting the tool frame to the machine frame for pivoting about horizontal pivot axes extending transversely to the longitudinal direction, the linkage being shaped approximately like a parallelogram.

8. The machine of claim 7, wherein the linkage is composed of two tie rods, arranged in a common plane and spaced from one another transversely to the longitudinal direction, and a towing rod arranged underneath said plane and extending parallel thereto.

9. The machine of claim 8, wherein the towing rod is designed to be telescopically extensible, and further comprising a length adjustment drive connected to the towing rod.

10. The machine of claim 8, wherein the tie rods are articulatedly fastened to the tool frame at a hinging point formed by a horizontal shaft extending transversely to the longitudinal direction.

11. The machine of claim 10, wherein the lifting drives of the track lifting unit are articulatedly fastened at their one end to the machine frame and at their other end to the horizontal shaft in each case immediately next to one of the tie rods.

12. The machine of claim 8, wherein the two tie rods are arranged in mirror symmetry with respect to a vertical plane of symmetry extending in the longitudinal direction and are positioned to extend at an acute angle to one another.

13. The machine of claim 1, wherein a lowering of the pair of lifting rollers with respect to the tool frame is accompanied by a vertical adjustment of the transverse drive in relation to the tool frame, as lifting rollers move apart.