TURNING RAILWAY WHEEL AND TIRE TREADS BY OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS

The restoration of the profile on wheel and tire treads must be accomplished economically and exactly, with the least loss of tread metal. The mechanical means of measuring wheel profiles and diameters setting the machine tools for the most economic turning down the treads of wheels and tires to the standard profiles assuring concentricity, equal diameters from wheel to wheel and central spacing of the wheel set, is an involved and lengthy process. This article describes the development of an optical scanning and measuring means of assuring all these essential relations of the turning of wheel and tire profiles, involving the projection on screens of the relative wheel profiles compared to the standard, and the positioning the axle journal shoulders to exact dimension lines. The turning of the treads and flanges is then accomplished through electronic controls.

• Corporate Authors:

  Hestra Verlag

  Holzhofallee 33, Postfach 4244
  6100 Darmstadt 1,   Germany 
• Authors:
  • Heckner, J
• Publication Date: 1970-10

Language

• German

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 417-425
• Serial:
  • Eisenbahntechnische Rundschau
  • Volume: 19
  • Issue Number: 10
  • Publisher: Hestra Verlag

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Costs; Equipment design; Maintenance management; Spacing; Technology; Tires; Vehicle design; Vehicle maintenance; Wheel rims; Wheels
• Uncontrolled Terms: Maintenance costs
• Geographic Terms: Germany
• Old TRIS Terms: Tire profile; Wheel design; Wheel spacing
• Subject Areas: Design; Finance; Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00040033
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 5 1973 12:00AM