By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Journal of Engineering — According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by VerticalNews journalists, a patent by the inventor Buda, Roland (Radolfzell am Bodensee, DE), filed on July 12, 2011, was published online on March 10, 2015.
The assignee for this patent, patent number 8973846, is Schwihag AG (Taegerwilen, CH).
Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “A rail-fastening system of analogous type is revealed DE 34 00 110 [U.S. Pat. No. 4,770,343] in which the railroad rail is secured by the screw, anchor, angle guide plate, and clip. A clip is used here that is provided between an angle guide plate (retention plate) and a screw (fastening anchor) when in the installed state. The clip here has two arms that are configured as torsion elements. The torsion arms have two parallel adjacent flexible rod sections that are connected together as a single piece by a loop that forms a clamping section and is essentially bent outward perpendicular to them.(…)
