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