Patents by Inventor PHILIPPE CROVISIER

PHILIPPE CROVISIER has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Track maintenance machine and method for consolidation of a ballast bed
    Patent number: 10900178
    Abstract: A track maintenance machine, constructed to be mobile on a track, for consolidation of a ballast bed underneath a track, includes a machine frame supported on an undercarriage and a consolidating device, connected to the machine frame, which includes at least one consolidating element constructed to be lowered. The consolidating element is constructed as a consolidating plate which, in a working position, is larger in a longitudinal direction of the track than a distance between two sleepers of the track, and the consolidating plate is disposed to be rotatable in order to turn the consolidating plate into a passing position for lowering or raising between two sleepers. A method for consolidation of the ballast bed underneath a track by using a track maintenance machine is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H.
    Inventors: Lothar Stadler, Gerard Lintz, Philippe Crovisier
  • Track Maintenance Machine And Method For Consolidation Of A Ballast Bed
    Publication number: 20190040588
    Abstract: A track maintenance machine, constructed to be mobile on a track, for consolidation of a ballast bed underneath a track, includes a machine frame supported on an undercarriage and a consolidating device, connected to the machine frame, which includes at least one consolidating element constructed to be lowered. The consolidating element is constructed as a consolidating plate which, in a working position, is larger in a longitudinal direction of the track than a distance between two sleepers of the track, and the consolidating plate is disposed to be rotatable in order to turn the consolidating plate into a passing position for lowering or raising between two sleepers. A method for consolidation of the ballast bed underneath a track by using a track maintenance machine is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: LOTHAR STADLER, GERARD LINTZ, PHILIPPE CROVISIER