Did You Know...
...that in the early 1940s GE engineer James Wright was charged with a task of utmost importance to the war effort: develop a cheap substitute for rubber that could be used to produce tires, gas masks and a whole host of military gear. Wright tackled the task diligently -- and wound up inventing Silly Putty.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8171829 | Device for lifting at least one wheel of a railbound vehicle The invention relates to a device for lifting at least one wheel (3, 57) of a rail-bound vehicle, which wheel bears on a rail (5, 71) in a contact point (7, 73). The device comprises a first (9, 59, 63) and a second lifting member (11,... | 05/08/2012 |
| 7261620 | Method and device for reprofiling railway wheels The present invention relates to a method for reprofiling wheel disks (7) or brake disks of a railway wheel or wheelset (6), rotatably mounted in bearing housings (9), by machining using a machine tool (12), which is designed to be portab... | 08/28/2007 |
| 6264407 | Portable electric railroad rail drill apparatus A portable electric railroad rail drill apparatus includes an elongated main shaft, a support frame, an electric drill, a clamp, a handle and a support leg. The support frame is reciprocally mounted to the main shaft for movement therealong between first ... | 07/24/2001 |
| 5890854 | Shaping tool for stock removal machining of wheelsets A shaping tool for the stock-removal machining of wheelsets. The tool contains a shell-end milling cutter comprised of a disc-shaped body with a multiplicity of cutting edges which overlap each other and are disposed spirally staggered on pitch circles on... | 04/06/1999 |
| 5678963 | Method for truing sets of rail vehicle wheels by chip removal and under-floor machine for performing the method Wheels of rail vehicles are trued while the wheels are kept rotating about a wheel center of rotation that is continuously corrected to keep the center of rotation in a fixed position in response to eccentricities a wheel may have, especially in its outer... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5678966 | Milling cutter for a wheel set milling machine A milling cutter for truing railroad wheels has a milling drive shaft (10) with at least two, preferably three, cutter sections (3, 4, 5). One fixed cutter section (4) is rigidly connected to the shaft (10). At least one, preferably two, cutter sections (... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5511913 | Wheelset processing method and apparatus In a wheelset processing operation, in which non-positive driving of the wheelset (1,1') is effected, the processing tools (2,2') act on the wheelset (1,1') at the same time in different directions such that the tangential components (3,3') of the tool fo... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5105691 | Under-the-floor lathe An under-the-floor lathe for re-machining the wheels in railroad-vehicle wheel sets. It has two assemblies for each wheel in the set. Each assembly comprises an upright, a swiveling head, an axle-bearing support, a hold-down, two friction rollers that can... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5019115 | Method and apparatus for producing fractured chips when performing a turning operation The feed advance speed, or rather its scalar value, of a turning cutting tool edge is varied for a time duration which is short relative to the time duration required for one full revolution of a work piece. The varying of the scalar value of the feed adv... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4951534 | Below-floor lathe for regrinding the tires of railroad-vehicle wheel sets A below-floor lathe for reprofiling the rims of railroad-vehicle wheel sets, with four driven friction rollers, two rotating supports, and controls. The friction rollers can be forced in pairs against the outer surface of each rim in a wheel set. A detect... | 08/28/1990 |
| 4939962 | Method and apparatus for influencing the motion of a movable member In connection with machine tools it is frequently necessary to directly couple the motion sequence of a tool carrier and thus of the tool carried by the tool carrier, to the r.p.m. of a work piece, in order to perform certain motion sequences for each rev... | 07/10/1990 |
| 4825737 | Lifting mechanism especially for a wheel set in a truing machine A mechanism for lifting a wheel set, such as a railroad wheel set, is constructed for cooperation especially with wheel truing machines for lifting a wheel set into a machining position or out of the machining position. In order to facilitate the chip rem... | 05/02/1989 |
| 4399724 | Lathe machine for turning wheel sets, especially sets of railroad wheels A milling machine for turning sets of wheels, especially railroad wheels, comprises at least one roller contacting the wheel circumference and at least one roller contacting the axially inwardly facing wheel surface for driving and/or supporting the wheel... | 08/23/1983 |
| 4347769 | Underfloor lathe for profiling wheel sets This invention relates to an underfloor wheel set lathe for the profiling of wheel sets of trackbound vehicles of the type in which the wheels are at least in part supposed by rolls carried by a roll carrier, at least one of the rolls being driven. Moveme... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4134314 | Method for truing railroad car wheels Track wheels such as railroad wheels are trued or reprofiled by first turning or cutting over only a portion of the tread surface width of each wheel of a set, whereby the cutting depth for this initial turning is smaller than the cutting depth required f... | 01/16/1979 |
| 3993115 | Tire truing machine A tire truing machine having a carrier for supporting and moving a motor-driven cutter to and from a mounted and driven wheel having a tire with means to vary the travel of the cutter according to the desired contour of the tire, including a new and impro... | 11/23/1976 |
| 3980120 | Method and apparatus for removing tread material from radial belted tires A method and apparatus for removing tread material from a pneumatic tire preparatory to recapping comprising a machine with a reversibly rotatable cutting disc with hardened cutting inserts located on the disc to take discrete elongate rubber chips from t... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3972362 | Tire trimming device A vehicle tire with protruding nibs rolls down a ramp and into the device and begins to be rotated thereby. Knife means facing into the direction of rotation of the tire are skimmed over the left sidewall, the tread, and the right sidewall of the rotating... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3945277 | Tire conditioning and truing apparatus Method and apparatus for conditioning a tire for truing by removing flat spots, and for subsequently truing the tire. Tire conditioning is accomplished by applying heat directly to the tire sidewalls and by concurrently rotating the tire while laterally m... | 03/23/1976 |
