Roadbed Patents (Class 238/2)
  • Patent number: 11047093
    Abstract: This sealing device for a railway, the railway including a housing extending between a side face of a rail and a side wall of a slot reserved in the ground for housing said rail, is characterized in that it is a sealing device inserted in the housing and fixed in the housing by a suitable putty, and in that it is a resiliently deformable profile, to be able to be inserted under stress in the housing and to be pressed against the side face of the rail and the side wall of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: ALSTOM TRANSPORT TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Frederic Pauchet, David Medina-Pineda, Jean-Yves Dubouchet, Samir Osmani
  • Patent number: 11021841
    Abstract: A railway or tramway track includes track rails arranged on a foundation surface. Noise and vibration reduction elements are arranged between the track rails and outward of the track rails. The noise and vibration reduction elements include at least one non-humic layer that absorbs water, reduces rate of flow and outflow of the water, and allows evaporation of the water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventor: Jan Eisenreich
  • Patent number: 10132049
    Abstract: A protective coating system for a railway structure having a waterproof membrane and a ballast mat. The waterproof membrane is disposed on the railway structure. The ballast mat further has a ballast protection coating and a sealing layer. The ballast protection coating is a rubber compound and is disposed on the waterproof membrane. The sealing layer is disposed on the ballast protection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Versaflex, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Haydu
  • Patent number: 9869065
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coating transportation components such as a bridge deck with a coating. The coating includes a sealant and rubber mixed with a resin and a foaming agent. The apparatus includes a hopper for the rubber, a impingement gun for the resin and a gun assembly that combined the rubber and resin together at a combined nozzle for spraying.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: VERSAFLEX, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph Haydu
  • Patent number: 9822491
    Abstract: A method is provided for foaming a ballast bed of a railway track wherein the railway track comprises sleepers positioned on the ballast bed and rails positioned on the sleepers, wherein the rails are covered at least in a partial area along a region of the ballast bed to be foamed, and a foaming agent is introduced into the ballast bed while the rails are covered, wherein the ballast bed has in a sleeper bay defined by two successive sleepers an upper side facing against the gravitational direction, and the ballast bed is heaped up so that the upper side of the ballast bed reaches at least up to an underneath side of the sleeper facing in the gravitational direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AG
    Inventors: Torsten Erwe, Thomas Gross, Thomas Kleiner
  • Patent number: 9441335
    Abstract: A protective coating system for a railway structure having a waterproof membrane and a ballast mat. The waterproof membrane is disposed on the railway structure. The ballast mat further has a ballast protection coating and a sealing layer. The ballast protection coating is a rubber compound and is disposed on the waterproof membrane. The sealing layer is disposed on the ballast protection layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: VERSAFLEX, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph Haydu
  • Patent number: 9297121
    Abstract: A process for the production of ballast for railway track laying, road construction, dam construction and bank protection, wherein ballast stones are spread out to form ballast and a reaction mixture for the preparation of a polyurethane foam, produced from components by a low-pressure process, is applied between the spread ballast stones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AG
    Inventors: Andreas Hoffmann, Torsten Erwe, Udo Maier, Hans-Guido Wirtz, Thomas Kleiner, Ralf Busch
  • Patent number: 9200412
    Abstract: Railway stone ballast and related systems and methods are provided. A representative railway stone ballast includes a crushed stone matrix; rubber aggregate; and an adhesive binder adhering the rubber aggregate to the stone matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Inventors: Glenn Robinson, William H. Moorhead
  • Publication number: 20150115049
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for introducing a flowable and foamable reaction mixture from the top into a ballast body having sleepers embedded therein, in which method said mixture is introduced into the ballast body laterally of the sleepers, notably preferably depending on the height of the ballast body at the point of application, and in a quantity that is all the larger the more upwards in the ballast body the application point is situated, wherein the mixture is adjusted in such a way that the foam formation process will begin only when the front of the mixture flowing downwards inside the ballast body has reached the bottom side or the region in the vicinity thereof of the ballast body so that the foam formation is carried out within the ballast body from the bottom towards the top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventor: Tim Frenzel
  • Patent number: 9004371
    Abstract: Systems and related methods involving isolation tubs are provided. In this regard, a representative system includes: an isolation tub formed of fiberglass reinforced plastic resin, the tub defining a reservoir; concrete positioned within the reservoir; and rails extending across the tub and being supported by the concrete, the rails being spaced from each other to form a special trackwork (STW) assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: PCI-Trammco, LLC.
    Inventors: Glenn Robinson, William H. Moorhead
  • Patent number: 8978995
    Abstract: A trackbed liner which has a particular utility in a railway trackbed, as well as in other trackbeds such as tram trackbeds. The trackbed liner may include an upper support layer; a lower support layer; and at least one middle filtration layer of a material having a plurality of pores and which is normally impermeable to liquid water. In use and under the load of a vehicle acting on the trackbed, the filtration layer permits passage of liquid water upwardly therethrough but restricts the passage of solids materials, so as to restrict pumping erosion of material located beneath the liner. The trackbed liner may be used to renovate a trackbed comprising ballast contaminated with clay particles. The method includes removing contaminated ballast; laying the trackbed liner; and locating fresh ballast on an upper surface of the liner to provide a renovated trackbed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Geofabrics Limited
    Inventors: Robert Graham Warwick, Andrew David Leech
  • Patent number: 8876014
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyurethane ballast layer, the method for preparing the same and a railway comprising the polyurethane ballast layer. The polyurethane ballast layer provided in this invention comprises a polyurethane-filled ballast layer and a polyurethane external protective layer, wherein the polyurethane-filled ballast layer comprises ballasts and polyurethane foam filled in the space among the ballasts. The polyurethane ballast layer provided in this invention can reduce the probability of ballast crashing, shifting and cracking under heavy load, and separate the ballast track from the outside environment to prevent rain, snow and wastes from entering into the internal space of the ballast track bed. Furthermore, the polyurethane ballast layer can keep the polyurethane foam filled in the ballasts layer away from water in the outside environment to avoid hydrolysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Bayer MaterialScience AG
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhang, Gang Sun, Yi Shen, Hui Zhao
  • Patent number: 8864084
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a track switch cover system and method. The system and method allows for easy installation and removal of track switch covers as well as quick and easy access to the switch mechanism shrouded by the covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Railway Equipment Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Randall G. Honeck, Michael Payne
  • Publication number: 20140203094
    Abstract: A ballastless track system comprises a base; a track slab arranged above the base; a poured-field layer arranged between the base and the track slab, the poured-field layer being formed by filling self-compacting concrete, emulsified asphalt cement mortar or resin mortar, and the inside of the poured-field layer being of a steel bar structure; a connecting piece, the first end of the connecting piece extending into the track slab, and the second end of the connecting piece extending into the poured-field layer; and two rows of rail-seat arranged on the track slab in parallel; and rails arranged on the rail-seat. The ballastless track system is high in reliability, good in durability, and easy in construction and maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: RAILWAY ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF CHINA ACADEMY OF RAILWAY SCIENCES
    Inventors: Chunfang Lu, Youming Zhao, Cheng Jiang, Jijun Wang, Meng Wang, Yong Zhao, Weibin Liu, Ziqing Jiang, Ruilin You, Xianggang Du, Jia Fan
  • Publication number: 20140183271
    Abstract: A support (32) adapted to be used in place of ballast in supporting a rail support member (31) of a rail track comprises a body (50). The body (50) includes a lower face (70) for resting on a support surface, and an upper surface (71) for supporting the rail support member (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: NEWSTYLE NOMINEES PTY. LTD.
    Inventor: Jim Lawson Hughes
  • Patent number: 8720792
    Abstract: A ballast retaining structure according to the present invention is a ballast retaining structure in which ballast laid on the roadbed is tamped to thereby retain a track bed extended in an extending direction of the roadbed from a transverse direction thereof, and includes a layered body formed by a plurality of bag-like objects, each being formed in a bag shape and containing the ballast, which are stacked from a toe of slope to a top of slope of the track bed such that each of the bag-like objects is tilted to decline from an outer end portion to an inner end portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: Central Japan Railway Company
    Inventors: Mikihito Kobayashi, Masaki Seki, Yasuhito Watanabe, Hironari Muramatsu, Junichi Koseki
  • Patent number: 8511579
    Abstract: The invention is an elevated rail system and reaction assembly. Features of the elevated rail system include pivot points between the track and vertical supports elevating the rail system, eccentric bolt and washer assemblies that allow precise vertical and horizontal adjustment of the vertical supports and threaded bolts that allow precise micro-adjustment of height of the track above the concrete foundations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Inventors: Alan Hepner, David Metivier
  • Publication number: 20130206853
    Abstract: Railway stone ballast and related systems and methods are provided. A representative railway stone ballast includes a crushed stone matrix; rubber aggregate; and an adhesive binder adhering the rubber aggregate to the stone matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Applicant: PCI-TRAMMCO, LLC
    Inventor: PCI-TRAMMCO, LLC
  • Publication number: 20130140373
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a polyurethane ballast layer, the method for preparing the same and a railway comprising the polyurethane ballast layer. The polyurethane ballast layer provided in this invention comprises a polyurethane-filled ballast layer and a polyurethane external protective layer, wherein the polyurethane-filled ballast layer comprises ballasts and polyurethane foam filled in the space among the ballasts. The polyurethane ballast layer provided in this invention can reduce the probability of ballast crashing, shifting and cracking under heavy load, and separate the ballast track from the outside environment to prevent rain, snow and wastes from entering into the internal space of the ballast track bed. Furthermore, the polyurethane ballast layer can keep the polyurethane foam filled in the ballasts layer away from water in the outside environment to avoid hydrolysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhang, Gang Sun, Yi Shen, Hui Zhao
  • Publication number: 20130062423
    Abstract: The present invention provides a polyurethane elastomer ballast mat and the preparation thereof, and a railway track bed and railway facilities using the same. The polyurethane elastomer ballast mat according to this invention comprises a reaction product prepared by spraying a reaction system comprising a polyisocyanate, a polyol, a chain extender, a blowing agent and a catalyst, on the surface of a railway roadbed or on one surface of a ballast mat shielding to conduct a reaction. The technical solution of the present invention makes it possible to provide ballast mats with different mechanical properties, shapes, thicknesses and sizes, depending on particular installation conditions, in order to adapt to various requirements for installation and use in railway construction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Chenxi Zhang, Yongdong Pang, Jen Chieh Roy Lin, Xiang Tan
  • Patent number: 8336831
    Abstract: A switch or rail box for railway rails that include a system for sealing a portion of a location where the rail enters or exits the box. The sealing system includes a pair of seal plates that can be connected to an inner surface and an outer surface of the switch box, wherein the sealing plates each include a groove that conforms to and accepts a portion of a rail and in some embodiments, a rail jacket. The channel formed between the adjacent seal plates is filled with an insulating material that extends around a lower portion of the rail, thereby aiding in stray current control. Methods for sealing the switch box utilizing the sealing system are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: R&R Solutions, LP
    Inventor: Rene′ Naquin
  • Publication number: 20120305663
    Abstract: Non-wood-timber (NWT) railroad ties such as concrete remove cushion and pressure wave attenuation provided by wood timber railroad ties. I provide methods to reintroduce cushion and wave attenuation by means of adding an elastomeric sole. To further increase wave attenuation a layer of ground automobile tire is placed between the hardpan and ballast. Also, reclaimed asphalt is an inexpensive means to create hardpan that reduces railroad tie pumping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventor: Kyle David Axton
  • Publication number: 20120286055
    Abstract: Systems and related methods involving isolation tubs are provided. In this regard, a representative system includes: an isolation tub formed of fiberglass reinforced plastic resin, the tub defining a reservoir; concrete positioned within the reservoir; and rails extending across the tub and being supported by the concrete, the rails being spaced from each other to form a special trackwork (STW) assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2011
    Publication date: November 15, 2012
    Applicant: PCI-TRAMMCO, LLC.
    Inventors: Glenn Robinson, William H. Moorhead
  • Publication number: 20120248214
    Abstract: The invention relates to a trackbed liner which has a particular utility in a railway trackbed, as well as in other trackbeds such as tram trackbeds. The trackbed liner may include an upper support layer; a lower support layer; and at least one middle filtration layer of a material having a plurality of pores and which is normally impermeable to liquid water. In use and under the load of a vehicle acting on the trackbed, the filtration layer permits passage of liquid water upwardly therethrough but restricts the passage of solids materials, so as to restrict pumping erosion of material located beneath the liner. The trackbed liner may be used to renovate a trackbed comprising ballast contaminated with clay particles. The method includes removing contaminated ballast; laying the trackbed liner; and locating fresh ballast on an upper surface of the liner to provide a renovated trackbed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: GEOFABRICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Graham Warwick, Andrew David Leech
  • Patent number: 8240430
    Abstract: A noise and vibration mitigating mat having top and bottom surfaces comprises a first layer formed of recycled bound rubber product, the first layer having a contoured bottom surface and a generally flat top surface, a second layer on the top surface of the first layer, the second layer being formed of a fabric and a third layer on the second layer and being formed of recycled rubber product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Inventor: Paul C. Downey
  • Patent number: 8240580
    Abstract: A ballast retaining structure includes a first layered body constituted by a plurality of bag-like objects, each being formed in a bag shape and containing the ballast, stacked from a toe of slope to a top of slope of the track bed and disposed in the extending direction of the roadbed. The bag-like object has communication holes for communicating an inside and an outside of the bag-like object formed in at least upper and lower surfaces of the bag-like object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Central Japan Railroad Company
    Inventors: Masaki Seki, Takashi Kachi, Mikihito Kobayashi, Junichi Koseki
  • Patent number: 8172158
    Abstract: A flangeway former and rail boot system where the flangeway former has an anchor for anchoring the former in surrounding material, and a groove for receiving a protrusion on the rail boot for positioning the former on the boot. The system can also include a spacer and retaining clips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Polycorp, Ltd.
    Inventors: Bruce Burkhardt, Bradley W Bedford, Rick Ellis
  • Patent number: 8167218
    Abstract: A support including a rail (10) that preferably has an I-shaped section and is provided in a slot (2) filled with concrete (4). During the manufacture of the rail, the rail is partially coated, substantially along its entire length, with a filler material (8) which defines at least one side extension (16) and bears on the concrete. A side groove (9) is formed in the coating of filler material (8) for the passage of a guiding or rolling wheel. The rail is directly maintained by the concrete such that an intermediate device, for additional maintenance of the rail, is not required. The rail can be bent and curved at the time of installation to conform to the curves of the track without any independent or additional bending step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Lohr Industrie
    Inventor: Jean-Luc Andre
  • Patent number: 8146834
    Abstract: Concrete carriageway for rail vehicles, having single- or multiple-block sleepers embedded in a carriageway panel, whereby the carriageway panel has areas of thinned cross-section disposed transverse to the direction of travel for generating cracks and in each has at least one body for transmitting transverse forces which overlaps the region of thinned cross-section on both sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Rail.One GmbH
    Inventor: Stephan Freudenstein
  • Patent number: 8066200
    Abstract: The invention is hollow structural members, a rail system based thereon and method of manufacturing such hollow structural members. Embodiments of the structural members may be hollow triangular prism-shaped with a cross-section that is triangular, isosceles, hexagonal or otherwise. Embodiments of rail systems based on hollow structural members are also disclosed. Embodiments of the rail systems disclosed herein may also include reaction assemblies for local dissipation of stresses due to thermal expansion of track materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: HillTrac, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Hepner, David Metivier
  • Patent number: 7988066
    Abstract: A rail track crossing comprising a support element (29) associated with each rail (11) of a rail track and configured to be supported from a sleeper (13) whereby the support element extends to each side of each rail, the support element having an engagement portion (31) which is to be at each side of the respective rail, a set of panels comprising a pair of lateral panels (37) and a central panel (39) wherein the central panel is to be received between the rails and supported upon the support elements and to be engaged by the engagement portions, the lateral panels being intended to be located to the sides of the rail track to be engaged with the engagement portion located at the respective side, wherein when the lateral panels and the central panel are in position their upper surfaces jointly provide a substantially continuous surface across the rail track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Newstyle Nominees Pty Ltd
    Inventors: James Lawson Hughes, Ridolfo Carace Bumett, Henry Dixie Stephen
  • Publication number: 20110155818
    Abstract: A ballast retaining structure according to the present invention is a ballast retaining structure in which ballast laid on the roadbed is tamped to thereby retain a track bed extended in an extending direction of the roadbed from a transverse direction thereof, and includes a layered body formed by a plurality of bag-like objects, each being formed in a bag shape and containing the ballast, which are stacked from a toe of slope to a top of slope of the track bed such that each of the bag-like objects is tilted to decline from an outer end portion to an inner end portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Mikihito Kobayashi, Masaki Seki, Yasuhito Watanabe, Hironari Muramatsu, Junichi Koseki
  • Patent number: 7896255
    Abstract: A track superstructure for a railway on a subgrade inclined transversely to the length thereof, comprises a ballast structure of individual ballast stones, and sleepers embedded in the ballast structure, on which rails may be mounted, the ballast structure comprising load dissipation regions beneath the sleepers, the regions receiving loads acting vertically on the ballast structure via the sleepers when a train rides on the rails and transferring these loads to the subgrade below the ballast structure. This transfer is characterized in that substantially only the voids between the ballast stones within the load dissipation regions of the ballast structure are filled with a foam material, especially a PU polyurethane foam material, for fixing the ballast stones in a stable position, and an elastic drain layer is arranged between the ballast structure and the subgrade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: MSB-Management GmbH
    Inventor: Tim Frenzel
  • Patent number: 7891576
    Abstract: The invention relates to track system having two substantially parallel tracks (6) which are disposed on respective concrete slabs (1) of a fixed track. The slabs (1) comprises a plurality of track supports (2, 2?) for receiving and fastening thereon two parallel rails (5). The top surfaces (3) of the slabs (1) of the two tracks (6) are inclined independent of the a guiding system of the tracks (6) and of the corresponding position of the rail supports (2, 2?) relative to the two outer sides (8) of the track system and form a slope. The invention also relates to a concrete slab of a fixed track, which comprises supports (2, 2?) for the first rail (5) which are higher in relation to the top surface (3) of the slab (1) than the supports (2, 2?) for the second rail (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Max Bogl Bauunternehmung GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Bögl
  • Publication number: 20100320279
    Abstract: A method is described for the installation of slab tracks in tunnels, in particular tracks on a slab of concrete, with the optimised design and execution characteristics, and substantially increased performance compared to the normal known methods. The method includes a succession of phases executed in order, with the help of an auxiliary track, Consisting of the design of the construction section, the construction of the railway yards, assembly of the auxiliary track from the evacuation platform, execution of the foundation base, assembly of the track in slabs, transitions from slab track—ballast track, and placement of long bars and welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventor: Francisco Javier MIGUELEZ TAPIA
  • Publication number: 20100320280
    Abstract: A method is being described for the installation of railway tracks onto ballast beds, which avoids the need for the installation of any type of auxiliary track. The method simplifies the method of operation of the current state of the technique in an appreciable manner, and contains the successive stages carried out after having located the sleepers onto the ballast bed, consisting in a summarised form of the fixing and laying of a pair of rails from a mini train, for the transport of the rails with the fastening and traction of same up to their complete unloading, the operation being guided by means of a discharge wagon; the support of the rails on longitudinal movement rollers; the cutting, squaring and fixing of the adjacent ends to the consecutive rails; the raising of the rail with the help of a crane, and the removal of the rollers; partial screwing of the track and placement of the rollers for the next cycle, and the removal of the tractor device from the mini train, and the final screwing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2010
    Publication date: December 23, 2010
    Inventor: Francisco Javier MIGUELEZ TAPIA
  • Patent number: 7850089
    Abstract: Fixed carriageway for rail vehicles having sleepers embedded in a carriageway panel and a reinforcement includes plural longitudinal and transverse rods disposed parallel and transverse to the sleepers, wherein the longitudinal rods and transverse rods are electrically isolated from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Rail.One GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Freudenstein, Franz Geissler, Christof Nottbeck, Sascha Lay
  • Publication number: 20100294847
    Abstract: Prefabricated module for manufacturing a railway which comprises (i) a railway bed element (1) with two standing lateral faces (4,5) situated opposite one another, a base (6) and a rail side (7) situated opposite the latter, whereby two parallel rails (8) are to be mounted or have been mounted on this rail side (7), (ii) a supporting element (2) with a bottom (14) and two opposite standing walls (15,16) defining a shaft in which the railway bed element (1) is situated, whereby said base (6) of the railway bed element (1) is provided opposite said bottom (14), and (iii) a vibration-insulating jacket (3) made of an elastic material, whereby this jacket (3) is provided between the railway bed element (1) and the supporting element (2), such that the railway bed element (1) does not make any direct contact with the supporting element (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2008
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Inventor: Patrick CARELS
  • Patent number: 7810741
    Abstract: Method of adjusting the height of a fixed rail carriageway, in which the sleepers supporting the rails are embedded in a carriageway panel resting on a substrate includes the steps of separating the carriageway panel from the substrate at the common contact face, forming filling apertures extending from the upper face to the lower face of the carriageway panel, lifting the carriageway panel to a fixed target height, incorporating a flowable casting material through the filling apertures in order to fill the space between the carriageway panel and the substrate, wherein separation is effected by pressure impacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Rail.One GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Kowalski, Stephan Freudenstein
  • Publication number: 20100193596
    Abstract: A ballast retaining structure includes a first layered body constituted by a plurality of bag-like objects, each being formed in a bag shape and containing the ballast, stacked from a toe of slope to a top of slope of the track bed and disposed in the extending direction of the roadbed. The bag-like object has communication holes for communicating an inside and an outside of the bag-like object formed in at least upper and lower surfaces of the bag-like object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Publication date: August 5, 2010
    Applicant: CENTRAL JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY
    Inventors: Masaki Seki, Takashi Kachi, Mikihito Kobayashi, Junichi Koseki
  • Publication number: 20100140367
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for partially or completely foaming the hollow spaces in the ballast structure of a ballast bed, below which a subgrade (7) is located, having a reactive plastic, wherein the reactive components are mixed in a high-pressure mixer (1,26) and wherein the start time for the reactive mixture (4) is adjusted such that the foaming process substantially only begins when the reactive mixture has reached the subgrade (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Applicant: HENNECKE GMBH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Pawlik, Juergen Wirth, Andreas Petersohn
  • Patent number: 7641127
    Abstract: A track system is made by setting a longitudinally extending row of concrete high-pressure injection piles in grown soil and then positioning atop the piles a succession of sleeper frames each including a pair of longitudinally extending rigid concrete beams held together transversely by a rigid steel structure. A longitudinally extending body of concrete is then cast between the beams around the steel frame. Finally longitudinally extending rails are fastened atop the beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignees: Hain, Uwe & Hain, Silke, LS Beratungsburo Lublow GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Markus
  • Patent number: 7605690
    Abstract: A rail vehicle includes an underbody which is subjected to thrown up ballast when the rail vehicle is operating on a ballasted section of track. In at least one embodiment, the underbody is equipped with at least one acoustic signal pickup which acoustically senses ballast stones striking the underbody; a signal processing device is provided to which a signal is fed from the at least one acoustic signal pickup and which processes the signal in such a way that a thrown up ballast signal is generated which represents the impacting of ballast stones on the underbody; and the thrown up ballast signal from the signal processing device is included in a mode of operation of the rail vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Kaspar Schroeder-Bodenstein
  • Publication number: 20090242654
    Abstract: A track bed composite structural element issued in railway track engineering, and has an upper water permeable layer, a lower water permeable layer and a filter material layer provided between the upper and lower water permeable layers. The upper and lower layers may comprise geotextile layers and the filter material may be sand or glass, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Inventor: Anthony Jay
  • Publication number: 20090230205
    Abstract: The invention is hollow structural members, a rail system based thereon and method of manufacturing such hollow structural members. Embodiments of the structural members may be hollow triangular prism-shaped with a cross-section that is triangular, isosceles, hexagonal or otherwise. Embodiments of rail systems based on hollow structural members are also disclosed. Embodiments of the rail systems disclosed herein may also include reaction assemblies for local dissipation of stresses due to thermal expansion of track materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Alan Hepner, David Metivier
  • Publication number: 20090152368
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for introducing a flowable and foamable reaction mixture from the top into a ballast body having sleepers embedded therein, in which method said mixture is introduced into the ballast body laterally of the sleepers, notably preferably depending on the height of the ballast body at the point of application, and in a quantity that is all the larger the more upwards in the ballast body the application point is situated, wherein the mixture is adjusted in such a way that the foam formation process will begin only when the front of the mixture flowing downwards inside the ballast body has reached the bottom side or the region in the vicinity thereof of the ballast body so that the foam formation is carried out within the ballast body from the bottom towards the top.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: MSB-MANAGEMENT GMBH
    Inventor: Tim Frenzel
  • Publication number: 20090121035
    Abstract: Fixed carriageway for rail vehicles, which is mounted on resilient elements, the concrete support panel including prefabricated panels and a layer of in-situ concrete applied thereon, wherein the prefabricated panels rest on the resilient elements and form a monolithic bond with the in-situ concrete.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2006
    Publication date: May 14, 2009
    Inventor: Martin Kowalski
  • Publication number: 20090095820
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for consolidating roadways, wherein at least one plastic is applied to the surface and/or in the interior of the roadway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2007
    Publication date: April 16, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Joachim Roser, Helmut Tesch, Hans Ulrich Schmidt, Andrea Eisenhardt, Johann Leitner, Hans-Jurgen Reese
  • Patent number: 7500617
    Abstract: Spindle device for the height adjustment and alignment of tracks on a substructure, having a transverse cantilever which is fixed to an elongate nut adjustable in height on a height adjustment spindle and which engages under the rail and which is formed as a horizontal spindle plate which is mounted on the elongate nut pivotably about a horizontal axis and on which a slide provided with a clamping mount device for the rail foot is displaceable by means of a second spindle device transverse to the height adjustment spindle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2009
    Assignee: RAIL.ONE GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Peter Wirtz, Arnold Pieringer
  • Patent number: 7484669
    Abstract: A rail cover and support for mounting and insulating the rails of an electric transit system in which the rail cover is vulcanized both to the rail and outer skid support at the manufacturing site prior to delivery to the field and a rail cover completely surrounds both the base flange and web portion of each rail and terminates along the undersides of the top flange. In one form, the upper free ends of the rail cover are increased in thickness to form bumpers along opposite sides of the rail to cushion it against undue shifting or vibration. In fabricating the rail, a sheet dielectric material is vulcanized to the rail with or without a skid plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: MetroShield LLC
    Inventor: Harold W. Gray, Jr.