RAIL PADS

摘要

The invention provides an elastomeric rail pad (1) of generally rectangular plan configuration, the pad having an upper face (2) adapted to underlie the lower face of a rail, and a lower face (5) adapted to overlie a concrete rail foundation member characterised in that the pad includes a reinforcement means (13) which is generally parallel to its mean plane and extends at least between dispositions associated with generally opposing corners of the generally rectangular pad (1), said reinforcing means (13) having a tensile strength such as to resist, in use of the pad (1), forces from traffic passing across the rail disposed therabove otherwise tending to stretch the pad (1) in the mean plane thereof.