US Patent Issued to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen on Nov. 11 for "Track maintenance machine with a conveyor or excavating chain arrangement" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,208, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Plasser & Theurer Export von Bahnbaumaschinen Gesellschaft m.b.H. (Vienna).

"Track maintenance machine with a conveyor or excavating chain arrangement" was invented by Manfred Brunninger (Altenberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A track maintenance machine with a conveyor or excavating chain arrangement for removing and collecting railway ballast and/or other formation or substructure layers of a track structure is shown, comprising a cutter bar which can be positioned below a track and which has at least two bar elements, each adjustable in position and alignment, and which is attache...