Method for covering a ballast bed with foam in a railway track system

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PATENT NO 9822491
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14441015

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A method is provided for foaming a ballast bed of a railway track wherein the railway track comprises sleepers positioned on the ballast bed and rails positioned on the sleepers, wherein the rails are covered at least in a partial area along a region of the ballast bed to be foamed, and a foaming agent is introduced into the ballast bed while the rails are covered, wherein the ballast bed has in a sleeper bay defined by two successive sleepers an upper side facing against the gravitational direction, and the ballast bed is heaped up so that the upper side of the ballast bed reaches at least up to an underneath side of the sleeper facing in the gravitational direction.

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COVESTRO DEUTSCHLAND AGKAISER-WILHELM-ALLEE 60 LEVERKUSEN 51373

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Erwe, Torsten Odenthal, DE 6 10
Gross, Thomas Wermelskirchen, DE 65 456
Kleiner, Thomas Odenthal, DE 26 235

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