Laying, rebuilding, or taking-up tracks; Tools or machines therefor (E 01 B 27/00, E 01 B 31/00 take precedence)
29
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02
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Transporting, laying, removing, or renewing lengths of assembled track, assembled switches, or assembled crossings (E 01 B 29/04 takes precedence)
29
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04
•
Lifting or levelling of tracks (lifting devices in general
B 66 F)
29
/
05
•
Transporting, laying, removing, or renewing both rails and sleepers (as assembled units E 01 B 29/02)
29
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06
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Transporting, laying, removing, or renewing sleepers (E 01 B 29/05 takes precedence; carrying devices B 65 G 7/12)
29
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09
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under, or from under, installed rails
29
/
10
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for inserting or removing sleepers
29
/
11
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Removal involving destruction of the sleeper, e.g. the sectioning thereof
29
/
13
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for moving sleepers in a direction parallel to the rails, e.g. for spacing or aligning them (E 01 B 29/10 takes precedence)
29
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14
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for lifting sleepers up to the rails (lifting devices in general B 66 F)
29
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16
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Transporting, laying, removing, or replacing rails; Moving rails placed on sleepers in the track (E 01 B 29/05 takes precedence; moving or tilting heavy loads in general B 65 G 7/00)
29
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17
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Lengths of rails assembled into strings, e.g. welded together
29
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20
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Moving rails placed on installed sleepers in the plane of the track
29
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22
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•
Raising rails from sleepers, e.g. for inserting sole-plates (lifting devices in general B 66 F)
29
/
24
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Fixing or removing detachable fastening means or accessories thereof; Pre-assembling track components by detachable fastening means (E 01 B 29/02, E 01 B 31/26 take precedence)
29
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26
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•
the fastening means being spikes (E 01 B 29/16 takes precedence; hand-held tools for nail or staple driving or extracting B 25 C)
29
/
28
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•
the fastening means being of screw-and-nut type (portable apparatus for fixing or removing screws or the like B 25 B); Apparatus therefor, adapted to additionally drilling holes
29
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29
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•
for horizontally-arranged fastening elements, e.g. fish-bolts
29
/
32
•
Installing or removing track components, not covered by the preceding groups, e.g. sole-plates, rail anchors (E 01 B 31/26 takes precedence)
29
/
40
•
Means or arrangements for temporarily supporting laid tracks, or rails or sleepers in the track (temporary fishplates E 01 B 11/18)
29
/
42
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Undetachably joining or fastening track components in or on the track, e.g. by welding, by gluing; Pre-assembling track components by gluing; Sealing joints with filling components (E 01 B 31/26 takes precedence; independent heating means E 01 B 31/18; welding in general B 23 K; gluing metal parts in general F 16 B 11/00)
29
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44
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•
Methods for effecting joining of rails in the track, e.g. taking account of ambient temperature
29
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46
•
•
Devices for holding, positioning, or urging together the rail ends (adjusting the joint by moving rails E 01 B 29/20)
31
/
00
Working rails, sleepers, baseplates, or the like, in or on the line; Machines, tools, or auxiliary devices specially designed therefor (characterised by features independent of use on assembled track B 21, B 23 to B 25, B 27)
31
/
02
•
Working rail or other metal track components on the spot
31
/
04
•
•
Sectioning or slitting, e.g. by sawing, shearing, flame-cutting
31
/
06
•
•
Making holes, e.g. by drilling, punching, flame-cutting
31
/
08
•
•
Bending, e.g. for straightening rails or rail joints (for aligning rail ends to be welded E 01 B 29/46
)
31
/
12
•
•
Removing metal from rails, rail joints, or baseplates, e.g. for deburring welds, reconditioning worn rails
31
/
13
•
•
•
by milling
31
/
15
•
•
•
by planing or filing
31
/
17
•
•
•
by grinding
31
/
18
•
•
Reconditioning or repairing worn or damaged parts on the spot, e.g. applying inlays, building-up rails by welding (E 01 B 31/04 to E 01 B 31/12 take precedence); Heating or cooling of parts on the spot, e.g. for reducing joint gaps, for hardening rails
31
/
20
•
Working or treating non-metal sleepers in or on the line, e.g. marking, creosoting (working metal sleepers E 01 B 31/02)
31
/
22
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•
Cutting or grinding wooden sleepers, e.g. for forming rail seats (E 01 B 31/24 takes precedence)
31
/
23
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•
•
Sectioning (combined with removal of segments from track E 01 B 29/11)
31
/
24
•
•
Forming, treating, reconditioning, or cleaning holes in sleepers; Drilling-templates (E 01 B 29/28, E 01 B 31/26 take precedence)
31
/
26
•
•
Inserting or removing inserts or fillings for holes in sleepers, e.g. plugs, sleeves
31
/
28
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•
Applying or removing anti-splitting or like reinforcing means (E 01 B 31/26 takes precedence; straps or bands therefor E 01 B 3/08)
33
/
00
Machines or devices for shifting tracks, with or without lifting, e.g. for aligning track, for shifting excavator track (combined with sleeper packing machines E 01 B 27/17)
33
/
02
•
for slewing, i.e. transversely shifting, in steps
33
/
04
•
•
Manual tools; Devices not mounted on vehicles
33
/
06
•
for slewing in a continuous operation, e.g. for tracks which carry excavators
33
/
08
•
•
Boom track-slewing machines
33
/
10
•
•
Bridge track-slewing machines
33
/
12
•
•
Combined boom and bridge track-slewing machines
33
/
18
•
•
Details not peculiar to a particular type of machine
33
/
21
•
•
•
Arrangement or construction of rollers moving the rails
35
/
00
Applications of measuring apparatus or devices for track-building purposes (apparatus on locomotives or cars to indicate or record bad track sections
B 61 K 9/00; measuring angles, linear dimensions, or irregularities in general G 01 B, G 01 C)
35
/
02
•
for spacing; for cross levelling; for laying-out curves
35
/
04
•
•
Wheeled apparatus
35
/
06
•
for measuring irregularities in longitudinal direction
35
/
08
•
•
for levelling
35
/
10
•
•
for aligning
35
/
12
•
for measuring movement of the track or of components thereof under rolling loads, e.g. depression of sleepers, increase of gauge
37
/
00
Making, maintaining, renewing, or taking-up the ballastway or the track, not provided for in a single one of groups E 01 B 27/00
to E 01 B 35/00
