Railway rolling stock – Special car bodies – Dumping
Patent
1984-12-14
1987-06-02
Reese, Randolph A.
Railway rolling stock
Special car bodies
Dumping
105254, 105250, B61P 700
Patent
active
046693920
ABSTRACT:
Bottom discharge hopper rail cars generally have a chassis on flanged wheels, and a hopper body mounted on the chassis and including transversely and longitudinally extending edges which border a discharge opening from the body. In the present invention, the opening is wholly or substantially wholly at a level below the tops of the wheels but above the bottoms of the wheels and extends at least partly between pairs of said flanged wheels.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1011219 (1911-12-01), McKee
patent: 4353312 (1982-10-01), Brower
patent: 4480954 (1984-11-01), Manstrom
Foster Glenn S.
Reese Randolph A.
Rotaque (Proprietary) Limited
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