Japanese National Railways

Hakusan Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

Railway Technical Research Institute

Sumitomo Metal Technology Inc.

Sumikin Osaka Plant Engineering Co., Ltd.

Hakusan Seissaku-sho Co., Ltd.

Kyushu Tetsudo Kiki Seizo Co., Ltd.

Muneyuki Ohara

Hirotsugu Oishibashi

Katsuyoshi Ueyama

Mitsuo Nakamura

Kenzo Hagiwara

Takayoshi Amano

Tadashi Takimoto

Keiichi Aoki

Takeo Aichi

Shigeru Sasaki

Kosuke Nagai

Kimio Shimizu

Kunio Kitagawa

Hisashi Yoshida

Akio Kobayashi

Soji Fujimori

Haruo Yokoyama

Akihiro Hosokawa

Hideshi Miyazaki

A rail grinding apparatus for railroad rails has a grinding belt wrapped around motor-driven pulleys which are rotatably mounted on a frame. The frame is supported on the surface of a rail by rollers which bear the weight of the grinding apparatus. A noise guard surrounds the grinding belt to reduce noise.

Rail grinding apparatus

A small-sized gas pressure welding machine for rails comprises a pressure application unit and an excess metal punching unit. The pressure application unit includes a positioning bed disposed along the rail feet of rails to be welded together, a movable pressure application clamp mechanism provided at one end of the positioning bed and a stationary pressure application clamp mechanism provided at the other end of the positioning bed. The movable clamp mechanism clamps the rail foot of one of the rails and provides an abutting pressure. The stationary clamp mechanism clamps the rail foot of the other rail and receives the abutting pressure. The excess metal punching unit is mounted on the other end of the positioning bed to be fitted on the other rail from the railhead thereof and is capable of being mechanically and detachably coupled to the pressure application unit and is provided with an upper excess metal punching mechanism for punching excess metal off the railheads, rail webs and rail foot upper surfaces of abutted end portions of the rails in one direction. On the other hand, the movable pressure application clamp mechanism is provided with a lower excess metal punching mechanism for punching excess metal off the rail foot lower surfaces of the rails in the other direction opposite to the aforementioned one direction.

Small-sized gas pressure welding machine for rails with two separate

A gas pressure welding machine comprises a movable clamp means for clamping one of reinforcing rods to be joined together, a stationary clamp means for clamping the other reinforcing rod, a punching die for punching-shearing a bulge being formed around a joint portion of the reinforcing rods, and a key connection mechanism for detachably connecting the movable clamp means and the punching die, whereby the reinforcing rods are subjected to pressure butt welding to form a bulge around a joint portion thereof and the bulge is immediately punching-sheared under red heat by the punching die.

Gas pressure welding machine

A method of field welding head-hardened rails which includes the steps of gas pressure welding the rails, shearing off excess metal therefrom at the welded portion with a portable welder device, subjecting the railhead of the pressure welded portion of the rails to a subsequent heat treatment with a gas heater device, setting a width of the pressure welded portion to be heated at the time of the subsequent heat treatment with a pair of jigs, and cooling the portion which has undergone the subsequent heat treatment with an air blowing type cooler.

Method of field welding head-hardened rails

A punching-shearing method for inspecting the quality of a butt welded joint comprises pressure butt welding steel members under heat to form an annular bulge around the joint portion of the steel members, punching-shearing the bulge under red heat immediately after the pressure butt welding process from one side of the bulge in parallel with the axes of the steel members by use of a shearing die having higher and lower shearing edge portions so that the higher shearing edge portions penetrate the bulge prior to the lower shearing edge portions, so as to cause the base of the bulge to remain around the joint portion in a slightly higher position than the peripheral surfaces of the steel members, and determining the quality of the joint portion from the peripheral surface of the base of the bulge remaining on the joint portion.

Punching-shearing method for inspecting quality of butt welded joint

A butt welding and burr shearing machine for metal rod, e.g., reinforce steel has opposed relatively slidable clamping devices (8, 9), which has positioning clamp (10) and pivotable clamp lever to clamp the rod by lever action. One of the clamping devices mounts split type shear dies by the positioning clamp and the clamp lever respectively. In the cutting position of the shear dies 21, 22 the rod F2 is not clamped by the clamping device 10 on which the shear dies are mounted. By a series of simple operations the rods to be jointed are loaded sideways, clamped by rotating clamp lever, and pressure butt welded, and bulge formed by welding process is sheared off. The completed rod is removed sideways.

Butt welding and burr shearing machine for reinforce steel

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Musashino, Japan

Muneyuki Ohara