Railway rolling stock – Special car bodies – Dumping
Patent
1994-02-28
1995-05-30
Oberleitner, Robert J.
Railway rolling stock
Special car bodies
Dumping
105286, 105289, B61D 730
Patent
active
054192625
ABSTRACT:
A closer for hopper car doors including a supporting frame structure associated with the rails on which a series of hopper cars are rollingly supported together with power actuated devices that will pivot the hopper car doors from a generally vertical, downwardly extending open position which exists after the hopper car has been unloaded for engaging the hopper car doors and pivoting them about their transversely extending supporting axis to a closed, latched position. The power devices include transversely extending support shafts with a pair of laterally extending arms rigid therewith with each arm including a wheel at the outer end thereof for engaging the hopper car doors when the transverse shafts are pivoted. The transverse shafts are pivoted by hydraulically operated piston and cylinder assemblies connected to a laterally extending arm on one end portion of each shaft with activation devices being positioned in the path of movement of the hopper cars to activate the closer when the hopper car doors are in appropriate position for engagement by the wheels for movement of the hopper car doors to a closed, latched position.
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Morano S. Joseph
Oberleitner Robert J.
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