1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a bridge sleeper supporting pad to be interposed between a bridge beam and a bridge sleeper so as to receive the bridge sleeper laid on the bridge beam in a railway track.
2. Description of the Related Art
As disclosed in Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication JP-A 2005-113984, a bridge sleeper adapted for placement on a bridge beam having a rivet has been conventionally known.
As disclosed in JP-A 2005-113984, it is necessary to form a recess tailored to fit with a projection of the rivet on a top end of the bridge beam on a back face of the bridge sleeper, which requires a lot of labor in processing.
Also known is a bridge sleeper in which an enhancing plate made of wood is fitted into a back face of the bridge sleeper at a position where it is laid on a bridge beam, in such a manner that substantially a half of a thickness of the enhancing plate projects downward from the bridge sleeper, and this enhancing plate is laid in abutment with the bridge beam. However, also on the back face of the enhancing plate, it is necessary to form a recess tailored to fit with a projection of a rivet on a top end of the bridge beam, so that time and labor are required in processing. In replacing with a new enhancing plate when the enhancing plate decays from the back face, it is necessary to form a recess tailored to fit with the projection of the rivet of the bridge beam on the back face of the new enhancing plate, so that it also takes time and labor in processing.
The present invention resolves such a problem, and it is an object of the present invention to provide a bridge sleeper supporting pad for eliminating a necessity of forming a recess tailored to fit with a projection of a rivet of a bridge beam on a back face of a bridge sleeper or enhancing plate.
In order to achieve this object, subject matters of the present invention are as follows.
According to the bridge sleeper supporting pad of the above configuration, the external pressure applied from outside the main bag allows curing of the mixture solution of the first reaction solution and the second reaction solution in the main bag, and excess compounds of the first reaction solution and the second reaction solution can be introduced to the sub bag, so that the thickness of the bridge sleeper supporting pad can be adjusted to a desired thickness. Even when there is the projection of the rivet on the top face of the bridge beam, by interposing the bridge sleeper supporting pad between the bridge beam and the bridge sleeper, it is possible to make the bridge sleeper supporting pad adapt to the projection of the rivet, so that there is no need to form the recess suited for the projection of the rivet of the bridge beam on the back face of the bridge sleeper or enhancing plate. Further, by forming the plurality of compartments partitioned by the sealed portion with the inside thereof being easily peeled, when a load of the bridge sleeper or rail is applied on the bridge sleeper supporting pad, the bridge sleeper supporting pad is strongly pressed, and unnecessary compounds of the first reaction solution and the second reaction solution tend to flow into the sub bag as a surplus. At this time, a pressure of the unnecessary compounds of the first reaction solution and the second reaction solution exerted on the sealed portion causes the sealed portion to open and sequentially pushes open the compartments, whereby the unnecessary compounds of the first reaction solution and the second reaction solution can be removed from the main bag.
In
The main bag 1 accommodates a first inner bag 7 having almost the same dimension as the inside of the main bag 1 and a second inner bag 8 smaller than the first inner bag 7. The above main bag 1 integral with the sub bag 2, the first inner bag 7 and the second inner bag 8 are made from a synthetic resin sheet.
The first and the second inner bags 7 and 8 also have a rectangular planer shape as is the case with the main bag 1, and produced by sealing four sides. Among the main bag 1 (including the continuing sub bag 2), the first and the second inner bags 7 and 8, the main bag 1 is formed of commonly used sheet materials such that an inner layer is formed of a film material having low melting point, such as polyethylene and an outer layer is formed of a film material having higher melting point than the inner layer, such as nylon, and produced by heat sealing the inner layers of the two sheet materials at their four sides.
As is the case with the main bag 1, the first and the second inner bags 7 and 8 are basically made of an inner layer formed from a film material having low melting point, and an outer layer formed from a film material having higher melting point than the inner layer, however, the film material forming the inner layer 9 is made by blending straight-chain low-density polyethylene and polybutene-1, as the straight-chain low-density polyethylene, those having a density ranging from 0.915 to 0.950 are used, and a ratio of blending straight-chain low-density polyethylene and polybutene-1 is set within a range of 70:30 to 98:2. And it is found that, when the first and the second inner bag 7 and 8 are produced by heat sealing using the film material obtained by blending straight-chain low-density polyethylene and polybutene-1, a difference arises in sealing strength between a heat sealed portion in a direction (X) extending perpendicularly to a film flow direction (direction of an arrow A) and a heat sealed portion in a direction (Y) extending parallel with the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A). In other words, the strength in a width direction along the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the perpendicular direction (X) tends to be smaller than the strength in the width direction extending perpendicularly to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the parallel direction (Y). This is ascribable to the following facts. The resin to be a material for the inner layer 9 of the first and the second inner bags 7 and 8 is obtained by blending straight-chain low-density polyethylene and polybutene-1. In laminating the inner layer 9 of a film material obtained by blending and the outer layer 10 formed of nylon or polyethyleneterephthalate, uniaxial orientation appears between straight-chain low-density polyethylene and polybutene-1 under action of a processing speed. In other words, a film is formed while the resin of straight-chain low-density polyethylene and the resin of polybutene-1 are irregularly aligned. This state is shown in
In a sealing edge in the width direction along the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the direction (X) perpendicular to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A), the above three patterns of combinations appear irregularly (see
In measurement of the heat sealing strength, it is well known that a sealing width of an object is in direct proportion to strength, and the wider the sealing width, the larger strength the object has. In the sealing edge in the width direction along the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the direction (X) perpendicular to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A), since the three patterns of combinations appear irregularly, a percentage in the sealing width occupied by the combination of the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11 and the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11, and the combination of the polybutene-1 resin part 12 and the polybutene-1 resin part 12 increasing the strength is less than 100%, and presence of the combination of the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11 and the polybutene-1 resin part 12 in the sealing edge decreases the heat sealing strength. In the width direction extending perpendicularly to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the direction (Y) parallel to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A), since molecules are oriented uniaxially, there arise three cases of appearances: the combination of the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11 and the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin 11 appears on the heat sealing edge, the combination of the polybutene-1 resin part 12 and the polybutene-1 resin part 12 appears on the heat sealing edge, and the combination of the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11 and the polybutene-1 resin part 12 appears on the heat sealing edge. In comparison with the sealing strength in the width direction along the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the direction (X) perpendicular to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A), the strength is larger when the combination of the straight-chain low-density polyethylene part 11 and the straight-chain low-density polyethylene part 11 appears or when the combination of the polybutene-1 resin part 12 and the polybutene-1 resin part 12 appears, while the strength is smaller when the combination of the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11 and the polybutene-1 resin part 12 appears. However, since the sealing strength is determined from the strength of the sealing edge, when the combination of the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11 and the polybutene-1 resin part 12 appears, the strength is small and hence peeling occurs. However, when the combination of the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11 and the straight-chain low-density polyethylene resin part 11 or the combination of the polybutene-1 resin part 12 and the polybutene-1 resin part 12 appears in the next instant, the sealing strength increases. Totally, the sealing strength in the width direction extending perpendicularly to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the direction (Y) parallel to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) is stronger than that in the width direction along the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the direction (X) perpendicular to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A). For appearance of such characteristics, as the straight-chain low-density polyethylene as the material of the inner layer 9, those having a density ranging from 0.915 to 0.950 are preferred, and the ratio of blending straight-chain low-density polyethylene and polybutene-1 is preferably within the range of 70:30 to 98:2 as described above. Outside these ranges, it is difficult to achieve the object of the present invention by realizing clear difference between the sealing strength in the width direction along the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the direction (X) perpendicular to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) and the sealing strength in the width direction extending perpendicularly to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion in the direction (Y) parallel to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A).
Utilizing the aforementioned nature, in the present embodiment, two film materials each having the bilayer structure are overlaid and the peripheries are heat sealed to produce the four-side sealed first and the second inner bags 7 and 8 having a rectangular planar shape. In such a case, the sealing strength in the width direction along the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion 13 in the direction (X) perpendicular to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A), namely on the short side, is made smaller than the sealing strength in the width direction extending perpendicularly to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A) of the heat sealed portion 14 in the direction (Y) parallel to the film flow direction (direction of the arrow A), namely on the longitudinal side, so that the sealed portion peels in the width direction of the heat sealed portion 13 on the short side upon increase in an inner pressure of the first and the second inner bags 7 and 8. More specifically, of the heat sealed portions 13 opposing each other on the short side, the widthwise dimension of one of the heat sealed portions 13 on the short side is made smaller than that of the other of the heat sealed portions 13 so that the sealed portion quickly peels in the width direction of the one of the heat sealed portions 13.
In brief, by forming a part having a narrow heat sealing width at an appropriate position in one of the heat sealed portions 13 opposing each other on the short side, the part having the narrow heat sealing width will quickly peel and provide an opening when the inner pressure is increased by application of the external pressure (force of pushing and pressing) on the first and the second inner bags 7 and 8.
In the first inner bag 7 manufactured in the manner as described above, a first reaction solution as a base material is introduced via one opening side of the first inner bag 7, and the first inner bag 7 is hermetically sealed, while in the second inner bag 8, a second reaction solution as a curing agent is introduced via one opening side of the second inner bag 8 and the second inner bag 8 is hermetically sealed. The first inner bag 7 containing the first reaction solution as the base material and the second inner bag 8 containing the second reaction solution serving as the curing agent are introduced into the main bag 1 via one opening side of the main bag 1, while one glass fiber cloth 15 having roughly a size of the inside of the outer bag 1 is put inside the main bag 1 so as to be along one side of the inner bag 7, and then one opening side of the main bag 1 is hermetically sealed. The sub bag 2 formed in continuation with the main bag 1 is provided for removing excess compounds of the first reaction solution and the second reaction solution contained therein at a time of usage.
A bridge sleeper supporting pad 16 shown in
Concrete examples of the first reaction solution as the main material contained in the first inner bag 7 include compounds having epoxy group, compounds having isocyanate group, compounds of unsaturated diacid (glycol and maleic anhydride, fumaric acid), compounds such as acrylic acid or acrylate, compounds having silanol group, and compounds having amino group, and concrete examples of the second reaction solution as the curing agent contained in the second inner bag 8 include compounds such as polyamine, acid anhydride, polyphenol, or the like, compounds having hydroxyl group, compounds such as peroxide, compounds having isocyanate group, and compounds such as formaldehyde. And the second reaction solution suited for the first reaction solution contained in the first inner bag 7 is contained in the second inner bag 8, and for example, when a compound having epoxy group is used as the first reaction solution contained in the first inner bat 7, polyamine, acid anhydride, polyphenol or the like compound is used as the second reaction solution contained in the second inner bag 8; when a compound having isocyanate group is used as the first reaction solution, a compound having hydroxyl group is used as the second reaction solution; when a compound of unsaturated diacid (glycol and maleic anhydride, fumaric acid) or a compound such as acrylic acid or acrylate is used as the first reaction solution, peroxide or the like compound is used as the second reaction solution; when a compound having silanol group is used as the first reaction solution, a compound having isocyanate group is used as the second reaction solution; and when a compound having amino group is used as the first reaction solution, formaldehyde or the like compound is used as the second reaction solution. The combination of the first reaction solution as the base material to be contained in the first inner bag 7 and the second reaction solution as the curing agent to be contained in the second inner bag 8 is appropriately selected. In brief, the combination may be such that the first reaction solution as the base material and the second reaction solution as the curing agent mingle with each other and turn to resin and cure.
A quantity ratio between the first reaction solution as the base material and the second reaction solution as the curing agent differs depending on the kind of reaction solutions, and the sizes of the first inner bag 7 and the second inner bag 8 are determined in correspondence with the used quantity.
The sealed portion 4a is sealed using a sealing agent not spontaneously resolving by the contained compounds of the first reaction solution and the second reaction solution, and the sealing agent is appropriately selected from synthetic rubber adhesive, natural rubber adhesive, acrylic adhesive, percoat sealing agent, hot melt resin and the like. Instead of using such a sealing agent, an easy-to-peel tape maybe used to simplify the sealing. In the illustrated embodiment, the sealed portion 4a is formed to project toward the upstream compartment 5 in order to facilitate peeling by efficiently receiving the pressure by the unnecessary compounds of the first reaction solution and the second reaction solution flowing into the compartment 5.
Next, the second embodiment shown in
Two embodiments have been described in the above, and it is also possible to accommodate an inner bag containing a curing accelerator in the main bag 1 as necessary. Also this inner bag is designed to be openable by application of the external pressure as is the case with the first and the second inner bags 7 and 8 of the first embodiment. In the first embodiment, the curing accelerator may be directly accommodated in the main bag 1.
Further, as a measure of opening the inner bag by the external pressure, a method of making a part having smaller strength in the sealed portion enclosing the inner bag and opening the part by the external pressure can be exemplified, as well as the method of using straight-chain low-density polyethylene and polybutene-1 as described above, and thus the measure is not limited to the method of using straight-chain low-density polyethylene and polybutene-1.
Next, a third embodiment shown in
Next, a fourth embodiment shown in
Further, in the above third and fourth embodiments, like the second embodiment, the first reaction solution as the base material or the second reaction solution as the curing agent may be directly contained in the main bag 1, and only one inner bag containing the second reaction solution as the curing agent or the first reaction solution as the base material may be accommodated in the main bag 1.
The aforementioned bridge sleeper supporting pad 16 may be used in the states shown in
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