121 |
RAILCAR TOWING SYSTEMS AND RAILCAR TOWING METHODS USING THE SAME |
US15692460 |
2017-08-31 |
US20180057024A1 |
2018-03-01 |
Sean Vosahlo |
A block, towing system, and a method for towing rail cars is provided. The block includes a first channel, a second channel, a third channel and a fourth channel. The first channel is located on a first side of the block. The second channel is located adjacent to the first channel on the first side of the block. The third channel is located on an opposite side of the block from the first channel. The fourth channel is located adjacent to the third channel on the opposite side of the block from the second channel. |
122 |
Autonomous Rail Coupling Shuttle System (A.R.C.S System) |
US15498494 |
2017-04-27 |
US20170349190A1 |
2017-12-07 |
Andrew Deutchman; Rosa Melillo; Vincent Anthony Cascella; Andy Chau; Timothy Choma |
This system utilizes autonomous rail cars that automatically couple and uncouple to and from a primary moving train. The primary train travels along a given route but never needs to stop at intermediate stations. Instead, autonomous rail cars gather passengers or goods at designated station locations and then automatically depart in order to meet up with the primary train. When the autonomous rail cars couple to the primary train, the contents of the autonomous rail car are transferred to the primary train. Likewise, contents that are already aboard the primary train which need to depart will be loaded onto this autonomous rail car. When the primary train approaches the next station, the autonomous rail car will detach and stop at the station while the primary train continues to travel on. This process repeats for each station on the route. |
123 |
Loading Train For Bulk Material |
US15301998 |
2015-03-13 |
US20170120936A1 |
2017-05-04 |
PATRICK HOETZENDORFER |
A loading train has at least two loading wagons for transporting and storing bulk material. The loading wagons each have a wagon frame supported on on-track undercarriages, a storage box with a bottom conveyor belt which is situated in the bottom region of the storage box and extends in the longitudinal direction of the wagon, and a pivotable transfer conveyor belt adjoining the bottom conveyor belt and projecting beyond the wagon frame. A tilt protection device is provided between the front-most, first loading wagon with regard to a transport direction of the bottom conveyor belt, and the following, second loading wagon. The tilt protection device is configured for contacting the rearward wagon frame end of the first loading wagon in order to block an upward movement of the wagon frame. |
124 |
Elastic coupling between rail vehicle wagons |
US14385221 |
2012-03-15 |
US09561807B2 |
2017-02-07 |
Maria Teresa Vicente Corral; Andres Lopez Bonaque; Miguel Angel Moñino |
The present invention relates to an elastic coupling (1) between rail vehicle wagons, comprising: an end support (2) or curved head (8) in turn comprising a screwed straight area (5), an intermediate deformation area (6) and an end coupling area (7), the end (8) of the coupling area (7) being curved, an end support (3) or straight head (8′) in turn comprising a screwed straight area (5′), an intermediate deformation area (6′) and an end coupling area (7′), the end (8′) of the coupling area (7′) being straight, and an enclosing case (4) covering the end coupling area (7) of the support (2) and the end coupling area (7′) of the support (3), such that the supports (2) and (3) are attached to one another by draw connection means and by elastic elements. The walls of the intermediate area 6 of the support 2 are curved inwards, and the walls of the intermediate area 6′ of the support 3 are curved outwards. |
125 |
Rotary lock for a split ramp railway car |
US436503 |
1995-05-08 |
US5727473A |
1998-03-17 |
Thomas H. Engle |
A rotary locking mechanism connects an upper ramp and a lower ramp of a split ramp railway car. A pin carrier supports a coupling pin and is mounted to the lower ramp by a swivel pin. The pin carrier can pivot horizontally relative to the lower ramp. A dual vertical rotor lock is mounted to the upper ramp. The rotor lock includes first and second coupling disks which have rotor slots or grooves for receiving the coupling pin. The coupling disks have a horizontal axis of rotation so that the disks are vertically mounted. The action of the coupling pin entering the grooves in the first and second coupling disks will automatically rotate the coupling disks into a locked position. Locking pins then engage slots in the peripheries of the coupling disks to secure the coupling disk in the locked position. |
126 |
Rotary drawbar assembly for a railway freight car |
US653465 |
1996-05-24 |
US5702012A |
1997-12-30 |
Wajih Kanjo |
A rotary type slackless drawbar assembly for connecting one end of a first railway freight car to an adjacently disposed end of a second railway freight car in a substantially semi-permanent fashion. Such drawbar assembly includes a rear block member having a substantially flat front face portion which is disposed in a generally vertical direction. A first spherically shaped cavity is formed in a center of the front face portion of such rear block member. A ball-like member has a first portion of an outer surface thereof disposed in such first cavity. An elongated drawbar member is connected at a first end thereof to a radially opposed second portion of such ball-like member. There is a generally U-shaped front block member which includes a substantially flat inner face portion disposed in a generally vertical direction and a second spherically shaped cavity is formed in such flat inner face portion of such front block member. A second portion of an outer surface of the ball-like member located closely adjacent said drawbar member is disposed in such second cavity formed in this inner face portion of such front block member. |
127 |
Crossbelt sortation system |
US606547 |
1996-02-26 |
US5588520A |
1996-12-31 |
Artemio Affaticati; Claudio Cerutti; Teodoro Ceglia |
The present application discloses a method and apparatus for conveying parcels on a plurality of transport units (32) moving in a conveying path (30) between an induction station (26) and a discharge station (28). The invention provides the ability to handle parcels having a length greater than the length of a single transport unit by providing the ability to induct such parcel onto two contiguous transport units (32) and to discharge the parcel from the two contiguous transport units to a selected receiving port (46). For longer parcels, having a length greater than a given length, the parcel is inducted to two contiguous transport units by operating the induction belts and the carrier belts of the two contiguous transport units in a manner which positions the parcel on the two transport units. The carrier belts of the two transport units are operated in a manner that rotates longer parcels, having a length greater than the given length, in order to position the parcel on the two transport units. Crossbelt sortation system (25) is provided with a transport unit test station (96) that is positioned adjacent to the conveying path. The purpose of the test station is to test movement of the carrier belt associated with individual ones of the transport units passing the test station. Each of the transport units (32) includes a magnet (204a, 204b) that moves in proportion to the linear speed of the carrier belt (36) associated with that transport unit. The test station includes a sensor (200) that senses the magnet of a transport unit passing the test station. The sensor includes at least one Hall-effect cell (208a, 208b) and a magnetic antenna (210) coupled with the Hall-effect cell. |
128 |
Hermaphrodite connector for land and seas and air and space applications |
US214666 |
1988-07-01 |
US4902161A |
1990-02-20 |
Boris Novoselsky |
A connector in the form of a support which can be mounted on or build onto one article which is to be connected to another article which can have an entirely identical connector adapted to be joined to the first, a connecting member on the support being swingable, and which has a tongue forming one end of the member and means defining a cavity at an opposite end, dimensioned to accommodate the tongue. An actuating mechanism is provided to pivot the connecting member between a first position in which the tongue is retracted into the support and a second position in which the tongue projects from the support generally perpendicular or transverse to the retracted position and can engage in the cavity of the connecting member of the other article when the latter is in its retracted position. The forces acting on the articles is taken up between the members by at least one locking member or guillotine inserted into engagement with a formation of the connecting member generally transverse to the latter and braced against two parts of the other article on opposite ends of the connecting member. |
129 |
Railway freight car |
US139221 |
1987-12-29 |
US4864938A |
1989-09-12 |
Harold E. Hesch; Phillip G. Przybylinski; Robert P. Sellberg |
A railway car comprises a center sill with a crossbearer, webs and end bolsters extending across thereof. A light side stiffener interconnects the projecting ends of said webs and spans between the bolster and the crossbearer. A shear plate covers a trapezoidal end frame extending from the bolster. The frame includes inclined braces buttressing a pair of cantilevered brackets projecting toward and horizontally overlapping similar brackets of the adjacent car. |
130 |
Linear coupling |
US810325 |
1985-11-27 |
US4710052A |
1987-12-01 |
Gerd Elger |
A linear coupling device is disclosed for a play-free, safe and dust-protected transmission of large tractive, alternating or radial forces by means of coupling members comprising of fir tree-shaped cones. The coupling members are secured together in combination with corresponding connection members comprising of a plurality of segments and a locking member comprising of a sliding coupling sleeve. |
131 |
Coupler for a railway car coupler assembly |
US720798 |
1985-04-08 |
US4637518A |
1987-01-20 |
Richard M. Hanula |
A coupler for a railway car coupling system includes an elongated shank terminating in a generally rectangular butt portion. The shank is generally octagonal in cross-section for strength, and the coupler butt portion has an end face provided with a convex spherically radiused contact area. The contact area is adapted to cooperate with a follower having a correspondingly concave spherically apertured recess. The butt portion end face is also provided with relieved corners to reduce wear and scoring thereon as it contacts and rotates against the follower. Relieved portions are provided in the coupler butt portion adjacent a transverse pin receiving aperture for accommodating limited angling of the coupler within the coupling system. |
132 |
Automatic coupler to connect convertible rail-highway vehicles end to end |
US125506 |
1980-02-28 |
US4311244A |
1982-01-19 |
Eugene Hindin; Alan R. Cripe; Christopher A. Cripe |
A coupler to connect rail-highway vehicles end to end including a female member at the end of one vehicle into which extends a sensing member, a male member at the end of an adjacent vehicle adapted to enter the female member, the male member including a vertical hole therethrough, and linkage connecting the sensing member with a vertical locking pin so that as the male member approaches its fully inserted position in the female member it contacts the sensing member and actuates the linkage to automatically urge the vertical locking pin through the vertical hole, the assembly being such that the weight of the vertical locking pin cannot retract from the vertical hole and cause an unlocking action to occur. In the uncoupling action, the vertical locking pin is first retracted and upon full withdrawal of the male member, the sensing member re-enters the female member, the entire assembly then being reset for automatic coupling when necessary. |
133 |
Automatic car coupler |
US948374 |
1978-10-04 |
US4232794A |
1980-11-11 |
Ronnie C. Plaster |
A car coupler includes first and second complementary coupling members which are respectively attached to cars by means of drop pins about which the coupling members can rotate horizontally. The first coupling member (female) includes an elongated coupling bar which is supported by a frame allowing 360.degree. of access thereabout. The second coupling member (male) comprises a frame having a latching lever and a locking lever with axes approximately parallel to the coupling bar. The latching lever forms a latching hook having a nose portion which pivots behind the coupling bar when the latching lever is pivoted to a coupling position. The nose portion defines a notch which is engaged by a locking hook of the locking lever on the other side of the bar for locking the latching lever behind the bar. |
134 |
Continuous transport systems |
US732513 |
1976-10-14 |
US4083309A |
1978-04-11 |
Bardet Gerard |
A continuous transport system characterized in that the vehicles providing passenger or goods transportation are passive vehicles without self-contained motors or braking devices, the drive for these vehicles when formed into trains being provided between stations by a head locomotive and a tail locomotive. |
135 |
Universal automatic coupler |
US3774776D |
1971-08-19 |
US3774776A |
1973-11-27 |
TANDON T; LAL S; BHAN S |
An automatic coupler comprising a shank and coupler head, said coupler capable of being coupled to a co-operative coupler of an identical construction, said coupler head having a buffer face provided with first and second projecting members, said first projecting member being a guide member, said second projecting member being a locking and guiding member, a locking means provided with said coupler and disposed within said first projecting member, a first opening provided above said second projecting member and adapted to receive the first projecting member of a co-operative coupler for guiding said two couplers, a second opening provided below said first projecting member and adapted to receive and lock, in conjunction with said locking means, the second projecting member of a co-operating coupler thereby resulting in two independent locking actions between two co-operating couplers, and an unlocking means for disengaging the locking means with the second projecting member and such that a single actuation of the unlocking means results in two independent unlocking actions between two co-operating couplers, said unlocking means being also a lock set means.
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136 |
Articulating gable-bottom cars |
US77845358 |
1958-12-05 |
US2989929A |
1961-06-27 |
FORT FLOWERS HENRY |
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137 |
Combined coupler head and buffer |
US30749128 |
1928-09-21 |
US1752764A |
1930-04-01 |
DORN HERBERT E VAN |
|
138 |
Mine-car coupling |
US39683320 |
1920-07-16 |
US1496553A |
1924-06-03 |
MIKE MEERDO |
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139 |
Car-coupling. |
US2831415 |
1915-05-15 |
US1175161A |
1916-03-14 |
MCGUIGAN JOSEPH S |
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140 |
Automatic coupling for railway-cars. |
US1913740436 |
1913-01-06 |
US1104713A |
1914-07-21 |
SOKOLOWSKI WITOLD V |
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