US Patent Issued to SPERLING RAILWAY SERVICES on Oct. 27 for "Rail grinding machine and method thereof" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,569, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SPERLING RAILWAY SERVICES INC. (Canton, Ohio).

"Rail grinding machine and method thereof" was invented by Fred S. Sperling (Canton, Ohio) and Chad H. Sperling (North Canton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rail grinding machine is composed of a rail cart that moves along a rail of a railway via self-propelled locomotion or by being towed. A grinding assembly may simultaneously grind both sides of a vertical web of the rail via respective grinding surfaces that create a ground surface on each side of the vertical web prior to welding one end of one rail to another end of an adjacent rail. ...