History of Patents

The Racine "Plate-Boy" was a combination machine used by tie replacement gangs directly behind the inserter.

A clamping apparatus attachable to a rail for supporting a portable machine tool.

Designed to cut rails directly in place (in situ) along the track by. The apparatus clamps securely onto the rail before cutting begins.

Designed for cutting a section from a railroad tie adjacent a tie plate, with the tie plate still in association with the tie and preparatory to regauging the rails.

A clip setting machine capable of automatically separating individual spring-type rail clips from a stack of clips and of setting the individual clips in anchor sockets for subsequent application, e.g., by an automatic rail applicator.

Spreads rail anchors along a railroad track. It lowers a tool head onto the rail near a tie, positions spreading arms between the anchors, and then pushes the anchors away from the tie to set them in the correct position.

A railway grinding system is capable of grinding a frog, another switch, or another railway section of interest in situ over a precisely defined path that is unaffected by the geometry of the railway section to be ground.

Capable of inserting a previously positioned tie plate between a rail and underlying cross tie of a railway. The machine is also capable of lifting the rail from the tie prior to tie plate insertion and/or, is capable.

An anchor cribbing machine includes a pair of ballast cribbing assemblies and a pair of rail clamp assemblies. The ballast cribbing assemblies are hydraulically-driven to push ballast away from the opposing sides of a railroad tie.