Rail car end door positioning keeper assembly

Details Rail car end door positioning keeper assembly Rail car end door positioning keeper assembly

1979-01-15

1981-04-28

Beltran, Howard

Railway rolling stock

Special car bodies

Freight

49384, 49394, 105410, 292262, B60J 506, B61D 1706, B61D 1900, E05B 6516

Patent

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042638534

ABSTRACT:
A railway car having an end opening includes a swingable folding door assembly provided with a keeper mechanism carried by the door assembly and the adjacent side wall of the railway car. As the panels of the door assembly are folded from a flat, closed position overlying the car end opening to a collapsed, open position disposed substantially longitudinally extended away from the end of the car side wall, a guide rod carried by the door assembly is arcuately displaced to simultaneously horizontally shift a vertical locking pin to a position overlying an aperture in a lock plate whereupon gravity concurrently drops the connected rod and pin to secure the open door assembly in a fixed position.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3854425 (1974-12-01), Allen
patent: 3933383 (1976-01-01), Walker
patent: 3967850 (1976-07-01), Whisler
patent: 3996860 (1976-12-01), Ravani et al.
patent: 4084516 (1978-04-01), Ravani et al.
patent: 4164189 (1979-08-01), Fritz et al.

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