141 |
Beam isolator |
US10926761 |
2004-08-26 |
US06964233B2 |
2005-11-15 |
Walter J. Peach; John D. Anderson |
A beam isolator which is inserted into at least one end of a tubular beam in a railroad car to minimize the movement of the beam during movement of the railroad car. The beam isolator includes first and second isolating pads, each defining openings. A hinge connects the first and second isolating pads at a first end of said first and second isolating pads. A stopping member is attached to and transversely projects from a second end of the first and second isolating pads. The first and second isolating pads are closed or folded about the hinge until the first and second isolating pads are substantially adjacent to each other, which substantially aligns the openings defined by the first and second isolating pads. The beam isolator is then inserted into at least one end of the beam until the stopping members engage the edges of the end of the beam. |
142 |
Rail road car with lading securement storage apparatus |
US10953860 |
2004-09-28 |
US20050117990A1 |
2005-06-02 |
Illario Coslovi; Peter Jupp; David Keats |
A center beam car has a main deck structure extending laterally from a main center sill, and a central vertically oriented central beam structure. The center beam so formed defines bunks upon in which to carry cargo. The upper region of the web-work structure includes a top chord mounted to run between two end bulkheads. The cargo can be secured to the deck with straps or webs. When the car is empty the straps or webs can be stored within boxes that are accessible at deck level by a person of average height. The storage boxes can be along the center line of the car, between the posts of the center beam, or they can be located adjacent to the side sills. Further, the boxes can be movable to a raised position, or to a lowered, stored position. A reeling mechanism is provided to facilitate winding of the straps or webs for storage. |
143 |
Method for measuring large components, especially the body of rail cars |
US10490050 |
2002-09-20 |
US20050030552A1 |
2005-02-10 |
Willi-Fred Boheim; Udo Laschet; Horst Reller |
The invention relates to a method for measuring large components, especially the body of rail cars, which is characterized by the following features: a) producing a stressfree position of the large component in which it is not buckled, by means of a mechanical corner force measuring device, b) producing a reference position of the large component, likewise using a corner force measuring device, c) measuring the z dimensions of the large component using an electronic, self-leveling all-round laser and laser receivers, said laser describing a horizontal plane and the receivers which are disposed on the large component or on the measuring adapters automatically searching the laser plane, and d) measuring the x dimensions and the y dimensions of the large component using a tachymeter. |
144 |
Rail road car with lading securement storage apparatus |
US10437613 |
2003-05-14 |
US06796758B2 |
2004-09-28 |
Ilario A. Coslovi; Peter N. Jupp; David J. Keats |
A center beam car has a main deck structure extending laterally from a main center sill, and a central vertically oriented central beam structure. The center beam so formed defines bunks upon in which to carry cargo. The upper region of the web-work structure includes a top chord mounted to run between two end bulkheads. The cargo can be secured to the deck with straps or webs. When the car is empty the straps or webs can be stored within boxes that are accessible at deck level by a person of average height. The storage boxes can be along the center line of the car, between the posts of the center beam, or they can be located adjacent to the side sills. Further, the boxes can be movable to a raised position, or to a lowered, stored position. A reeling mechanism is provided to facilitate winding of the straps or webs for storage. |
145 |
Beam isolator |
US10428526 |
2003-05-02 |
US06786160B1 |
2004-09-07 |
Walter J. Peach; John D. Anderson |
A beam isolator which is inserted into at least one end of a tubular beam in a railroad car to minimize the movement of the beam during movement of the railroad car. The beam isolator includes first and second isolating pads, each defining openings. A hinge connects the first and second isolating pads at a first end of said first and second isolating pads. A stopping member is attached to and transversely projects from a second end of the first and second isolating pads. The first and second isolating pads are closed or folded about the hinge until the first and second isolating pads are substantially adjacent to each other, which substantially aligns the openings defined by the first and second isolating pads. The beam isolator is then inserted into at least one end of the beam until the stopping members engage the edges of the end of the beam. |
146 |
Rail road car with lading securement storage apparatus |
US09893368 |
2001-06-27 |
US06612793B2 |
2003-09-02 |
Ilario A. Coslovi; Peter N. Jupp; David J. Keats |
A center beam car has a main deck structure extending laterally from a main center sill, and a central vertically oriented central beam structure. The center beam so formed defines bunks upon in which to carry cargo. The upper region of the web-work structure includes a top chord mounted to run between two end bulkheads. The cargo can be secured to the deck with straps or webs. When the car is empty the straps or webs can be stored within boxes that are accessible at deck level by a person of average height. The storage boxes can be along the center line of the car, between the posts of the center beam, or they can be located adjacent to the side sills. Further, the boxes can be movable to a raised position, or to a lowered, stored position. A reeling mechanism is provided to facilitate winding of the straps or webs for storage. |
147 |
Composite vehicle body having sandwich panels integrally formed with
frame parts to form individual body modules which are connected to
other body modules to form the vehicle body |
US434272 |
1989-11-13 |
US5042395A |
1991-08-27 |
Peter M. Wackerle; Franz Sperber; Josef Grober |
A rail vehicle body consisting of a support frame and sandwich parts attached thereto having an outer and an inner cover layer and supporting layer glued in between them, comprises, with a view to cost-effective fabrication and above all reduction of assembly cost, individually made body modules which are designed in integral construction as a sandwich structure with support frame parts inserted in the region of the supporting layer and fastened to the cover layers and being provided at the edges of the support frame parts with fitting connections for assembly of the body modules. |
148 |
Method for replacing bolster rings |
US171121 |
1980-07-22 |
US4330076A |
1982-05-18 |
Glen R. Lollis; Marvin G. Marler; Joe P. Car; Sam J. John |
The disclosure concerns a procedure for replacing a worn bolster ring on a freight car truck bolster which utilizes a motorized circle cutting and welding machine which rests upon the bolster and is centered by supporting structure positioned by locating pins which engage two pairs of mounting holes for the side bearing cages. The worn ring is cut from the bolster by a cutting torch driven around the circumference of the ring by the motorized machine. Then, the replacement ring is placed on the cut bolster surface, centered with respect to the axis of the motorized machine and tack welded, and finally welded to the bolster by a welding head which traverses the inner and outer peripheral surfaces of the ring under the control of the motorized machine. |
149 |
Corrugated vehicle underframe |
US915435 |
1978-06-14 |
US4275663A |
1981-06-30 |
Eugene W. Sivachenko; Firoze H. Broacha |
A load carrying vehicle such as a truck trailer or a railroad car has a generally flat, horizontal loading surface which is supported by an underframe which in turn is mounted to and carried by wheel assemblies, kingpin-saddle plate arrangement and the like. The underframe extends over the full length and width of the load carrying vehicle and each of its transverse cross-sections is of a substantially constant height while in a longitudinal direction the center portion of the underframe is of a relatively greater height than portions of the underframe adjacent the wheel assemblies. The underframe is constructed of a first corrugated plate in which the corrugations run longitudinal of the vehicle. A second corrugated plate is secured to the underside of the first mentioned plate and the plates are arranged so that the corrugation troughs of the upper plate are in longitudinal alignment with corrugation peaks of the lower plate to define a hollow core honeycomb pattern between the plates. Mutual contact points between the plates, e.g. contacting corrugation troughs and peaks are rigidly secured, e.g. welded to each other. The load carrying surface may be defined by the upper corrugated plate or by planking or the like attached thereto. Side walls, end walls and a roof constructed of corrugated plate can be mounted to the underframe. |
150 |
Asymmetrical subway vehicle |
US951035 |
1978-10-13 |
US4233904A |
1980-11-18 |
Helmut Bugarcic |
A subway vehicle for service in a tunnel which has a circular cross-section, wherein, a car body having an asymmetrical cross-section with a first longitudinal side having a vertical side wall with the necessary windows and doors in this vertical side wall and having an opposite second longitudinal side which conforms to the configuration of the tunnel for travel therethrough. The car body has an inner wall spaced from the opposite second longitudinal side and the space between this inner wall and the opposite first longitudinal side defines the passenger space. The inner wall does not contain any windows. In addition, the space between the inner wall and the outer second longitudinal side defines a utility compartment space between the opposite second longitudinal side wall and the inner longitudinal wall for accommodating air, heating, and cable channels. |
151 |
Railway car for highway trailers |
US806791 |
1977-06-15 |
US4141300A |
1979-02-27 |
Walter J. Marulic; Ray L. Ferris |
A railway car for carrying highway trailers includes an intermediate frame section having a platform for supporting trailer hitches adapted for crane loading operations. The outer ends of the frame are connected to stub sills which include wheel supporting depressed treadways. The associated bolster and bearer structure with the intermediate frame section provides a lightweight trailer hauling car of high strength construction. |
152 |
Cushioning means for railroad car |
US49726865 |
1965-10-18 |
US3359924A |
1967-12-26 |
GUTRIDGE JACK E |
|
153 |
Locomotive on-board storage and delivery of gaseous fuel |
US15358983 |
2016-11-22 |
US10006409B2 |
2018-06-26 |
Scott Myers; David Wilkerson; Brian McDonald |
A fuel deck for on-board storage and delivery of gaseous fuel for a locomotive. The fuel deck is formed between the engine deck and the trucks of the locomotive. The fuel deck includes a base for riding on the trucks, a ceiling configured to separate the fuel deck from the engine deck, and one or more support structures extending between the base and the ceiling. The support structures are configured to support the load from the engine deck, and separate the base from the ceiling to form a fuel storage compartment that is adapted to store one or more fuel tanks that contain the gaseous fuel. A fuel system including one or more fuel tanks is also provided, where each fuel tank may have more than one inlet/outlet port for enabling faster refilling or distribution of the gaseous fuel, among other considerations. |
154 |
Dolly system |
US15288250 |
2016-10-07 |
US09868450B2 |
2018-01-16 |
Anders Tomren |
A dolly system is disclosed, which overcomes drawbacks related to unwanted noise and jerks of prior art dolly systems. The dolly system comprises wheel assemblies (130) that have independently rotating lateral support wheels (132, 133) in combination with a center wheel (131) that interact with a continuous resilient element (122) when rolling along a rail track, without encountering any gaps or bumps and without producing squeal noise due to so-called wheel-climbing that may occur in curves along the rail track. |
155 |
Vehicle body and manufacturing method |
US14373226 |
2012-01-19 |
US09809233B2 |
2017-11-07 |
Harold Kendall; Daniel Ganzer; Zuoguang Liu; Aiqin Jiang |
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a vehicle body. The method includes coupling a frame assembly to a platform, wherein the platform is in a cambered and unloaded condition, and wherein the frame assembly has a degree of play at coupling points with the platform and securing the coupling points to eliminate the degree of play and thereby to provide substantially zero residual stress in the vehicle body in the cambered condition. |
156 |
Device for controlling stiffness and damping of locomotive carbodies |
US14575268 |
2014-12-18 |
US09694829B2 |
2017-07-04 |
Butchi Babu Nalluri; Saket Ashokkumar Mishra; Xiaoying Ma |
A device for damping vibrations between a pair of sub-structural components of a carbody in a locomotive is provided. The sub-structural components are supported on a single undercarriage frame. The device includes a first support bracket affixed to a first sub-structural component, and a second support bracket that is interleaved with the first support bracket and affixed to a second sub-structural component. The device further includes a first stiffening element and a second stiffening element that are disposed on the first support bracket and in opposing relation to each other. The device further includes a reciprocating member that is rigidly connected to the second support bracket. The reciprocating member is movable between the first stiffening element and the second stiffening element to abut against one of the first stiffening element and the second stiffening element in response to a relative movement between the pair of sub-structural components of the carbody. |
157 |
LOCOMOTIVE ON-BOARD STORAGE AND DELIVERY OF GASEOUS FUEL |
US15358983 |
2016-11-22 |
US20170145961A1 |
2017-05-25 |
Scott Myers; David Wilkerson; Brian McDonald |
A fuel deck for on-board storage and delivery of gaseous fuel for a locomotive. The fuel deck is formed between the engine deck and the trucks of the locomotive. The fuel deck includes a base for riding on the trucks, a ceiling configured to separate the fuel deck from the engine deck, and one or more support structures extending between the base and the ceiling. The support structures are configured to support the load from the engine deck, and separate the base from the ceiling to form a fuel storage compartment that is adapted to store one or more fuel tanks that contain the gaseous fuel. A fuel system including one or more fuel tanks is also provided, where each fuel tank may have more than one inlet/outlet port for enabling faster refilling or distribution of the gaseous fuel, among other considerations. |
158 |
DOLLY SYSTEM |
US15288250 |
2016-10-07 |
US20170101112A1 |
2017-04-13 |
Anders TOMREN |
A dolly system is disclosed, which overcomes drawbacks related to unwanted noise and jerks of prior art dolly systems. The dolly system comprises wheel assemblies (130) that have independently rotating lateral support wheels (132, 133) in combination with a center wheel (131) that interact with a continuous resilient element (122) when rolling along a rail track, without encountering any gaps or bumps and without producing squeal noise due to so-called wheel-climbing that may occur in curves along the rail track. |
159 |
Inner ceiling assembly of a railway vehicle |
US14901244 |
2014-06-18 |
US09586601B2 |
2017-03-07 |
Ewald Meergans; Stefan Stephan |
A rail-borne vehicle includes an inner ceiling assembly having at least one air duct, a multiplicity of lighting devices and at least one ceiling cladding. The air duct is disposed between an inner surface or face of a roof of the rail-borne vehicle and the ceiling cladding and the air duct is provided with a multiplicity of air outlet openings. The ceiling cladding also has a multiplicity of openings. Both the lighting devices disposed between the inner surface of the roof of the rail-borne vehicle and the ceiling cladding as well as the air outlet openings of the air duct are disposed relative to the openings in the ceiling cladding in such a way that both the air of the air duct and the light of the lighting devices pass through the openings in the ceiling cladding. |
160 |
Curved plate for railcar bodyshell, front car bodyshell, and method of manufacturing curved plate for railcar bodyshell |
US14442826 |
2013-10-24 |
US09586600B2 |
2017-03-07 |
Kazumasa Inaba; Masaki Kayukawa; Kimihiro Koura; Kenji Waki |
A curved plate for a railcar bodyshell includes: a plate main body including an outer surface facing an outside of a railcar and an inner surface facing an inside of the railcar and the plate main body having a curved shape; and reinforcing ribs projecting from the inner surface of the plate main body toward the inside of the railcar. At least two of the plurality of the reinforcing ribs include machining reference surfaces formed on a same plane as reference surfaces used when machining an outer surface of the plate main body. At least one of the plurality of the reinforcing rib includes a mounting reference surface perpendicular to one of a rail direction, a sleeper direction, and a vertical direction as a reference surface used when mounting the curved plate to the railcar. |