Door locking mechanism for side dump railway hopper cars

Details Door locking mechanism for side dump railway hopper cars Door locking mechanism for side dump railway hopper cars

1978-07-10

1980-11-25

Bertsch, Richard A.

Railway rolling stock

Special car bodies

Dumping

105240, 105290, 105286, 105308R, B61F 900

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042351693

ABSTRACT:
An open top hopper car particularly adapted to transport logs and pulpwood products includes a car body having a central partition separating the car into a pair of hoppers which are open at their lower ends for discharging materials sideways and downwardly through the supporting track into a pit area. The car is provided with a door locking mechanism including a longitudinally extending actuating member which by means of flexible linkages rotates bellcranks supported on a hopper out of locking engagement with keeper members provided at the lower ends of a pair of swinging doors.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1160828 (1915-11-01), Blest
patent: 3675590 (1972-07-01), Schuller

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