Method for random car train positioning

Details Method for random car train positioning Method for random car train positioning

1982-06-17

1984-12-11

Reese, Randolph

Material or article handling

Apparatus for moving intersupporting articles into, within,...

Stack forming apparatus

104162, 104176, 414359, B65G 6750

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044875479

ABSTRACT:
A car positioning device for dumping of random cars in a rotary car dumper, and a method for directly positioning cars within a rotary dumper, where the car positioning device, movable on a trackway parallel to a track portion carrying railroad cars, has a carriage base and a pivoted car positioning arm thereon, the car positioning arm being L-shaped with a long section extending parallel to the trackway and a short section carrying a coupling apparatus, transverse the track portion, such that the long section extends beyond the carriage and beyond the guideway for the carriage, with the short section of the arm positionable within the car dumping apparatus to directly position a car within the confines of the dumper.

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"Train Positioner General Arrangement", McDowell-Wellman Engineering Co., Drawing No. 124186, 2-15-1968.

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