Material or article handling – Wheeled – load-transporting type vehicles forming a train,...
Patent
1997-10-21
1999-08-31
Bucci, David A.
Material or article handling
Wheeled, load-transporting type vehicles forming a train,...
414505, 414523, 414528, 213 62R, B65G 6702
Patent
active
059444690
ABSTRACT:
A box car for carrying bulk material and capable of being incorporated into a freight train of a plurality of successively arranged like box cars, the box car comprising a box having an open top and an endless horizontal conveyor at the bottom, one of the endless conveyor ends being a rear end in the conveying direction and another endless conveyor end being a front end in the conveying direction, and a bulk material transfer device for transferring the bulk material from a preceding to a succeeding box car, the preceding and succeeding box cars being coupled to each other, the bulk material transfer device comprising an inclined endless conveyor having a lower end and an upper end, a drive for moving the inclined endless conveyor, and an adjusting drive for adjusting the distance of the transfer device from the ends of the horizontal endless conveyor, and the inclined endless conveyor being so arranged that the lower end subtends the front end of the horizontal endless conveyor of the preceding box car, and the higher end overlaps the rear end of the horizontal endless conveyor of the succeeding box car.
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Ollerer Friedrich
Theurer Josef
Bucci David A.
Franz Plasser Bahn-baumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
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