Franz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-industrie-gesellschaft Mbh

Karl Folser

Josef Theurer

Franz Plasser

A mobile ballast cleaning machine useful for work in track switches and crossings comprises an endless ballast excavation chain including a chain stringer mounted in a transversely extending guide for excavating ballast underneath the track. The guide is adjustable to selected lengths for a corresponding change in the width of the ballast excavation. The excavated ballast is received on a ballast cleaning screen separating the ballast from fines to produce clean ballast, and cleaned ballast distributing conveyors and/or chutes are adjustably mounted for enabling the cleaned ballast to be distributed over the entire width of ballast excavation for selectively distributing the ballast within this width. The excavation chain and/or the distributing conveyors are mounted on mobile supports.

Mobile ballast cleaning machine

The chain tensioning device for an endless ballast conveyor chain comprises a first, transverse chain guide for a stringer arranged to extend transversely of the track and therebelow and two longitudinally extending, pivotal chain guides rising from the transverse chain guide for two stringers arranged laterally of the machine frame and extending from respective ends of the first stringer, guide rollers being mounted at the ends for guiding the stringers in a polygonal path. One of the chain guides comprises an upper and a lower part movable in relation to each other in the direction of chain elongation. A power drive moves the two chain guide parts to adjust the effective length of the chain guide and thus selectively shortens or lengthens the effective circumference of the endless chain.

Endless ballast conveyor chain

A mobile ballast cleaning machine which comprises a ballast excavating bucket chain and a ballast cleaning screen has a ballast leveling apparatus mounted behind the bucket chain to level cleaned ballast returned to the track bed from the screen. This ballast leveling apparatus consists of an arrangement of bars extending transversely of the track over the entire length of the track ties. The arrangement includes a plurality of transversely arranged rods having adjacent, pivotally joined ends attached to the bucket chain by guide rods or ropes which permit free movement of the leveling rods.

Ballast leveling apparatus

In a ballast cleaning apparatus, wherein ballast is removed from underneath a track section, cleaned and returned, clean ballast is stored so that additional amounts of clean ballast may be selectively delivered under the track/or to the cribs.

Ballast treating apparatus

In a ballast cleaning method and apparatus, wherein ballast is removed from underneath a track section, cleaned and returned, clean ballast is stored so that additional amounts of clean ballast may be selectively delivered under the track and/or to the cribs.

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