US Patent Issued to Herzog Railroad Services on Jan. 28 for "Rail tie plate flipping assembly" (Missouri, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,366, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Herzog Railroad Services Inc. (St. Joseph, Mo.).

"Rail tie plate flipping assembly" was invented by Matthew L. Combs (Agency, Mo.), Jacob P. DiVilbiss (Kansas City, Mo.), Daniel L. Wilcoxson (Savannah, Mo.) and Alex Jensen (Fort Worth, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for orienting and distributing tie plates along a section of railroad track includes a tie plate flipping assembly. The tie plate flipping assembly flips shoulder-side down tie plates into a shoulder-side up orientation while maintaining shoulder-side up tie plates in the shoulder-side up orientation. One embodiment o...