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Apparatus for tamping or packing the bed of railway tracks

CA 1090657 A · Owner: Matisa Materiel Industriel S.A. · Inventors: Pasquinni, Sandro

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Apparatus for tamping the bed of a railway track comprises a wheel mounted tamping machine frame on which is mounted a vertically displaceable support for tamping tools. The tools are mounted on the tool support in opposed pairs and each tool comprises an arm having at least one pick extending therefrom and provided at its lower end with a blade. A motor driven crank-shaft is journalled in a bearing rigidly connected to the tool support and includes eccentric bearings on each of which the arm of a tamping tool is pivoted by its end remote from the blade so as to impart vibratory oscillations to the tool. So that substantially only generally horizontal vibratory oscillations are transmitted …

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  • Granted December 2, 1980. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended December 2, 1997.
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FiledFebruary 10, 1978
GrantedDecember 2, 1980
Term endedDecember 2, 1997
Patent numberCA 1090657 A
Classification (IPC)E01B27/16

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1979198119831985198719891991199319951997Application filedFeb 10, 1978Patent grantedDec 2, 1980Term endedDec 2, 1997

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