Patent ID: 9435082
Filing Date: 2016-09-06
CPC Classification: E01B

Claim Text:
1. A rail pad for providing continuous support of a rail, being elongate and at least in part made of a resilient material, and having a top face and a bottom face, wherein the top face is formed with a plurality of spaced apart longitudinal grooves and wherein a longitudinal seal against water and dirt is provided on the top face at each lateral end; and wherein the seal comprises, when considered from the lateral end, a successive arrangement of a first longitudinal lip, a first longitudinal channel, a second longitudinal lip, and a second longitudinal channel, in that order, wherein the first lip projects above the top face, and the first and second channels have a cross sectional size large enough to allow, in use, water that oozes in to flow throughout the channels and wherein the thickness of the second lip is smaller than the spacing between the second channel and an adjacent first groove in order to obtain a smaller flow resistance from the second channel towards the first channel than compared to towards the grooves.