Patent · US Expired

Apparatus for consolidating ballast

US3942448A · kind A · utility

5Cited by

2References

3Claims

0Family size

Assignee

BASF SE

Inventors

Olaf Unbehaun
Uwe Hampel · Dresden, DE
Norbert Scholz · Recklinghausen, DE
Horst Gassmann
Walter Schneider · Thalwil, CH
Heinz Hesser
Walter Herrmann · Sellersville, US
Bertold Bechert

Key dates

Filing date	May 24, 1974
Grant date	Mar 9, 1976
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 24, 1994

Classification

Technology area (CPC E)Fixed Constructions
CPC primaryE01B27/16
WIPO fieldCivil engineering
WIPO sectorOther fields

Abstract

A track or switch tamping machine wherein the machine includes tamping and ramming units having longitudinal ducts for injecting liquid binder into the ballast. The longitudinal ducts terminate in a plate or cavity within the lower portion of the tamping and ramming units. A nozzle is also included in the unit as is means for conveying liquid binder from a storage tank carried on the machine.

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