Coil railcar with floating floor sheet
AssigneeJac Operations, Inc.
InventorsWilliam Thompson, Glenn J. Fowler, Michael H. Kress
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Abstract
A transverse trough coil car includes a plurality of transverse troughs, a pair of trucks, a center sill supported on the trucks, a pair of side walls extending the length of the car coupled to the center sill, and a plurality of trough forming assemblies with each trough forming assembly including at least one floating floor sheet. Each one floating floor sheet is structured to allow for thermal expansion in a first direction along a longitudinal axis of the car body and in a second direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the car body.
Claims20
A transverse trough coil car body including a plurality of transverse troughs along the car body, comprising:
- a center sill extending substantially the longitudinal length of the car body;
- a pair of side walls extending the longitudinal length of the car body on opposed sides of the car, each side wall including a side sill, top chord and side plate extending between the top chord and the side sill;
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- a plurality of trough forming assemblies, with each trough forming assembly including at least one floating floor sheet configured to allow for thermal expansion of the floor sheet in at least one of a longitudinal direction and a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction.
A transverse trough coil car body including a plurality of transverse troughs along the car body, comprising:
- a pair of side walls extending the longitudinal length of the car body on opposed sides of the car, each side wall including a side sill, top chord and side plate extending between the top chord and the side sill;
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- a plurality of trough forming assemblies, with each trough forming assembly including at least one floating floor sheet which is coupled to the trough forming assembly configured to allow thermal expansion of the floor sheet in a first direction along a longitudinal axis of the car body and in a second direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the car body.
A transverse trough coil car comprising:
- At least two spaced trucks;
- A car body supported on the trucks and including a plurality of transverse troughs along the car body, the car body including:
- i) a center sill extending substantially the longitudinal length of the car body,
- ii) a pair of side walls extending the longitudinal length of the car body on opposed sides of the car, each side wall including a side sill, top chord and side plate extending between the top chord and the side sill;
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- iii) a plurality of trough forming assemblies, with each trough forming assembly including at least one floating floor sheet which is coupled to trough forming assembly and structured to allow for thermal expansion in a first direction along a longitudinal axis of the car body and in a second direction transverse to the longitudinal axis of the car body.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.