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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2024
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2020
Racine Railroad Products, Inc., Mount Pleasant, WI (US);
Christopher Brenny, Burlington, WI (US);
Mark Osmak, St. Francis, WI (US);
Racine Railroad Products, Inc., Mt. Pleasant, WI (US);
Abstract
A tie plate inserter assembly on a track mounted machine is provided that is configured to ensure appropriate location of a tie plate and a tie relative to a rail of a railway. The assembly includes a frame supported, at least indirectly, on a chassis of the machine and having a tie plate clamp assembly that includes a self-centering mechanism that centers the tie plate relative to a longitudinal centerline the tie. The tie plate clamp assembly has a first clamp plate and a second clamp plate configured to clamp together to hold the tie plate. The tie clamp assembly also has first and second clamp plates configured to clamp together to hold the tie in place. The assembly may additionally include a tie clamp assembly that can actuated to center the tie relative to a reference point on the frame.