Patent ID: 6807909
Filing Date: 2004-10-26
Classification: B60P,E01B

Abstract:
An apparatus for depositing tie plates from a mobile railroad track mounted tie plate carrier vehicle onto and along a railroad track, said apparatus comprising:a gravity feed roller conveyor having an upper input end mounted on the output end of the carrier vehicle for receiving a succession of tie plates thereon, said roller conveyor extending diagonally downwardly and away from the carrier vehicle such that the succession of tie plates received thereon will gravitate downwardly thereon, a lower end portion of said roller conveyor being disposed on support structure carried on railroad wheels which are adapted for movement along the track with movement of the carrier vehicle; and a device mounted over an output end portion of said roller conveyor for intercepting each of the tie plates in succession as it gravitates downwardly to a preselected position on said roller conveyor for successively discharging each of the tie plates from a lower output end of said roller conveyor onto the railroad track in a preselected spaced apart manner as a function of the movement of said railroad wheels along the railroad track.