Apparatus and method for the handling of railway sleepers

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E01B 29/10 (2006.01) E01B 29/13 (2006.01)

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CA 2751533

An apparatus (100, 700) is disclosed for handling railway sleepers and placing them with a desired spacing. A mobile chassis is supported at either end by a suitable tractor (102, 104). On the chassis (112) there is carried an elongate support (114) long enough to span several sleepers, with a number of flexible tethers (126) depending from respective points spaced along the support. The tethers are adapted to suspend a batch of sleepers simultaneously. An alignment template extends beneath the elongate support and is formed so as to engage the suspended batch of sleepers simultaneously and fix their positions. A mechanism is provided whereby the alignment template and suspended sleepers are made moveable so as to permit an efficient sequence of lifting, aligning and depositing batches of sleepers, without the need for fine manual adjustment. In one embodiment, the alignment template (122) is formed on the underside of the chassis structure (112), while the elongate support is a beam extending above the chassis. Various methods of deployment are described, and the apparatus may be adapted for laying fourteen or even twenty-eight sleepers in one batch.

L'invention concerne un appareil (100, 700) destiné à réaliser la manutention de traverses de chemin de fer et à les poser avec un espacement souhaité. Un châssis mobile est soutenu à chacune de ses extrémités par un tracteur (102, 104) approprié. Le châssis (112) porte un support allongé (114) suffisamment long pour enjamber plusieurs traverses, un certain nombre de liens souples (126) étant suspendus à des points correspondants espacés le long du support. Les liens sont prévus pour suspendre un lot de traverses simultanément. Un gabarit d'alignement s'étend sous le support allongé et est formé de façon à interagir avec le lot de traverses suspendues simultanément et fixer leurs positions. Un mécanisme sert à déplacer le gabarit d'alignement et les traverses suspendues de façon à permettre une séquence efficiente de levage, d'alignement et de pose de lots de traverses, sans nécessiter de réglage manuel fin. Dans un mode de réalisation, le gabarit (122) d'alignement est formé sur la face inférieure de la structure (112) du châssis, tandis que le support allongé est une poutre s'étendant au-dessus du châssis. Divers procédés de déploiement sont décrits, l'appareil pouvant être prévu pour poser quatorze ou même vingt-huit traverses en un seul lot.

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