Traveling railway track machinery to clean ballast has cleaning devices with suction units above ballast conveyors to remove dirt and deposit it on a removal conveyor

摘要

The machine has a sweeper unit (6) to lift the ballast, and cleaning devices with at least one suction unit (200). These are positioned at a small distance above a first or second conveyor (50,60) between sleeper unit and cleaning devices, to remove dirt by suction from the ballast and deposit it via a conveyor channel on a third, dirt removal conveyor (70). The cleaning devices have separator units (10) with parallel driven shafts carrying projecting formed plates.