Patent ID: 7073238

Claim:
A method for recycling a rail, comprising: providing a rail; heating the rail; slitting the rail to separate the rail into a first piece and a second piece wherein the first piece is a flange and the second piece is a head; and deforming the flange and the head; wherein slitting the rail and deforming the flange and the head, comprises: passing the rail through a first reduction pass; passing the rail from the first reduction pass to a first delivery guiding system; separating the rail into the flange and the head in the first delivery guiding system; passing the flange and the head from the first delivery guiding system to a first entry guiding system; passing the flange and the head from the first entry guiding system to a pair of pinch rolls; passing the flange and the head from the pinch rolls to a second delivery guiding system; passing the flange and the head from the second delivery guiding system to a conveyor line; passing the flange into a first flange entry guiding system and passing the head into a first head entry guiding system; passing the flange from the first flange entry guiding system into a second reduction pass; passing the flange from the second reduction pass to a first flange delivery guiding system; passing the head from the first head entry guiding system to the second reduction pass; passing the head from the second reduction pass to a first head delivery guiding system; passing the head from the first head delivery guiding system to a second head entry guiding system; passing the head from the second head entry guiding system to a third reduction pass; passing the flange from the first flange delivery guiding system to a second flange entry guiding system; passing the head from the third reduction pass to a second head delivery guiding system; passing the flange from the second flange entry guiding system to the third reduction pass; passing the flange from the third reduction pass to a second flange delivery guiding system; passing the head from the second head delivery guiding system to a third head entry guiding system; passing the head from the third head entry guiding system to a fourth reduction pass; passing the flange from the second flange delivery guiding system to a third flange entry guiding system; passing the head from the fourth reduction pass to a third head delivery guiding system; passing the flange from the third flange entry guiding system to the fourth reduction pass; and passing the flange from the fourth reduction pass to a third flange delivery guiding system.