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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 28, 1981
Filed:
Oct. 12, 1979
John K Stewart, Lexington, SC (US);
Canron Corp., West Columbia, SC (US);
Abstract
A system including method and apparatus for conveying and orientating tie plates for use with a railway track renewal or construction machine designed to run along a railway track. The system provides a delivery of tie plates to mechanisms for positioning and laying the plates on new or reconditioned ties adjacent both ends of each tie with the field side of the tie plate facing outwardly. A first longitudinally directed power driven conveyor is located centrally with its inlet end in a gondola car used to store the tie plates. This conveyor is divided along its longitudinal center by a wall to provide a means for conveying two adjacent lines of tie plates. The tie plates are introduced to this first conveyor on both sides of the dividing wall with the plates facing upward and the field end of the plates facing forward. A pair of second longitudinally directed power driven conveyors are located on the track working machine downstream of and outwardly from the first conveyor and at a lower level. Two undriven curved roller conveyors are arranged to receive one each of the lines of plates from the exit end of the first driven conveyor and to deliver the plates transversely outward and downward to separate ones of the two second power driven conveyors for delivery to the laying mechanisms.