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Alexandr I Kulesh

Sergei I Kuchuk-Yatsenko

Vasily A Sakharnov

Fedor K Porkhun

Ivan K Golomovzjuk

Valery G Krivenko

Mikhail V Bogorsky

Vitaly T Cherednichok

Sergei A Solodovnikov

Vladimir I Tishura

Ivan A Chernenko

Ivan L Lazebny

In accordance with the disclosure, the workpieces being welded are brought together by rectilinearly oscillating at least one of them along the line of bringing them together with the amplitude in the movement of the workpiece towards the other workpiece greater than that in the movement of the same workpiece in the direction opposite to the direction towards the other workpiece, voltage is applied to said workpieces for flashing and heating them in the course of bringing them together, and then an upset force is applied to the workpieces. The hydraulic drive adapted to generate the oscillatory rectilinear motion in a continuous flash butt-welding machine includes a hydraulic cylinder with two chambers which provides for moving one of the workpieces being welded with respect to the other and comprises apparatus for feeding hydraulic fluid alternately into either of the chambers of the hydraulic cylinder of the machine, the apparatus being connected with the cylinder through two hydraulic lines. The lines serve alternately one as the inlet line and another as the outlet line and are interconnected by two hydraulic conduits, either of which incorporates an adjustable throttle and a check valve. The check valves are arranged so that either of them by-passes hydraulic fluid from the inlet line into the outlet line. The adjustable throttles are adjusted so that the hydraulic fluid volume admitted into the hydraulic cylinder of the machine to move the workpiece towards the other workpiece is greater than the hydraulic fluid volume admitted thereinto to move the same workpiece in the opposite direction.

Method of continuous flash butt welding and hydraulic drive of

The base of the apparatus has the form of a claw clamp with two grips for gripping a rail that are kinematically linked with a clamping cylinder. The apparatus incorporates an upper cutter and side cutters, mounted so that, with the claw clamp closed, the cutting edges of the cutters form an outline embracing the cross-sectional perimeter of the rail. Each side cutter is hinged to the respective grip and mounted thereon for a displacement parallel to the axis of symmetry of the outline formed by the cutting edges of the cutters. The upper cutter is kinematically linked with the rod of the clamping cylinder via a clearance take-up mechanism which provides for lifting the upper cutter and the side cutters hinged thereto to engage the side cutters with the rail foot underside.

Apparatus for removing flash from resistance butt-weld joints in rails

A device for removing flash from rails after resistance butt welding, mounted on a welding machine case and split along the vertical axis of the rail, comprising three cutters embracing the rail along the entire cross-sectional perimeter thereof and coupled with a hydraulic cylinder drive, one of said cutters is pivotally mounted on said case, split along the vertical axis thereof and contacts the rail rolling surface, while the two side cutters which embrace the sides of the rail head, the web and the base flange of the rail are arranged symmetrically relative to the vertical axis of the case and hinged thereto, the top portions of said side cutters being linked by an articulated rod.

Device for removing flash after resistance butt welding of rails

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Kyiv, Ukraine

Alexandr I Kulesh