US Patent Issued to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen on Feb. 18 for "Sweeping device for working on a track system" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,903, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna).

"Sweeping device for working on a track system" was invented by Guenther Buchberger (Bad Hall, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sweeping device works on a track formed of rails and sleepers. The sweeping device has a brush shaft formed from a plurality of shaft portions configured as hollow shafts, and resilient sweeping elements protruding radially from the brush shaft. The sweeping device can be attached via at least one adjustable vertical drive to a vehicle that can travel on rails. It is provided that at le...