Railway rolling stock – Special car bodies – Freight
Patent
1993-05-24
1994-12-27
Huppert, Michael S.
Railway rolling stock
Special car bodies
Freight
105375, 410 89, 211 13, B60P 706, B62D 3304
Patent
active
053755340
ABSTRACT:
A deck structure for use in supporting cargo at an intermediate level above the floor or bed of a trailer van, or the like. A first embodiment includes a first deck section pivotally mounted on a side wall of a trailer van and movable to a horizontal load position, and back up to a vertical stored position against the side wall where it is releasably held by a spring slam bolt engaged with a height saving angle locking rail. In the first embodiment a second section of the deck is pivotally connected to the first section and it is also movable between a horizontal load position and a vertical stored position against the side wall, and when it is in the vertical stored position it is hanging from the first section and is configured such that it nests closely in the first deck section to provide a slender storing intermediate deck structure. When the first and second deck sections are in a horizontal load position, the second section has an outer end which is selectively provided with either a spring biased, telescopically mounted load bracket, or a cap style load bracket, that is operatively seated on a load track rail on the trailer van wall opposite to the wall on which the first deck section is hinged. Two intermediate decks may be mounted in vertically spaced apart positions, at two different levels, above the floor of a trailer van.
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Deck II, Captive Double Decking System Literature (2 pages), date unknown.
Gordon Stephen
Huppert Michael S.
Mentag Robert G.
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