Freight accommodation on freight carrier – Including turntable for load – e.g. – for semitrailer
Patent
1989-01-13
1990-08-07
Reger, Duane A.
Freight accommodation on freight carrier
Including turntable for load, e.g., for semitrailer
414333, B61D 4700
Patent
active
049463241
ABSTRACT:
A railroad car adapted to receive at least one container from a truck positioned along the railroad car includes a deck mounted on wheels and at least one turntable rotatably mounted on the deck. The turntable includes a pair of spaced, parallel guide tracks which can slidably receive and support a container. A shuttle bar extends transversely across and is slidably mounted on the deck. The shuttle bar is connected to the turntable so that sliding movement of the shuttle bar rotates the turntable between a position in which the guide tracks extend longitudinally along the deck and a position in which the guide tracks extend across the width of the deck. The shuttle bar has hooks on its ends which can be engaged by a bail on the truck to allow the truck to move the shuttle bar and thus rotate the turntable. When the turntable is in its position extending across the width of the deck, the truck can slide a container either onto or off of the guide tracks so as to load or unload a container from the railroad car.
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Beecher Dennis L.
Tse Yan H.
Consolidated Rail Corporation
Reger Duane A.
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