Spring Patents (Class 238/302)
  • Patent number: 4728031
    Abstract: Apparatus for fastening rails on ties of a railroad comprising four rail screws for flushly mounting an abutment face of a bedplate against the upper surface of the tie and a pre-stressed, elastically deformable bedplate having a convex curved abutment face for frictionally engaging the upper surface of the tie and for applying a spring force against the rail screws when the rail screws are used to brace the curved abutment face flush against the tie.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1988
    Assignees: Schwihag, Gesellschaft fur Eisenbahnoberbau mbH, Firma Karl Richtberg KG
    Inventors: Armin Heim, Johannes Horn, Karl-H. Schwiede