Railroad coil car structure
AssigneeNational Steel Car Limited
InventorOliver Veit
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Abstract
A transverse trough coil car has a straight-through center sill. It has a pair of truck centers. It has a set of trough slope sheet assemblies mounted to the center sill between a pair of side sills. The slope sheet assemblies include intermediate slope sheet assemblies that are pin jointed connected to the center sill. The pin joint connection has a tongue and clevis form that is aligned with the webs of the center sill. The car may have stub bolsters that are surmounted by pre-fabricated trough assemblies that mate with the stub bolsters and extend to the side sills.
Claims16
A railroad coil car, said railroad coil car being a transverse trough coil car, said railroad car comprising:
- a straight-through center sill;
- a set of transverse troughs that includes at least a first transverse trough and a second transverse trough;
- an intermediate slope sheet assembly defining a first slope sheet of said first trough and a first slope sheet of said second trough;
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- said intermediate slope sheet assembly being pin-joint connected to said straight-through center sill.
A railroad coil car, said railroad coil car being a transverse trough coil car, said railroad car comprising:
- a straight-through center sill;
- a set of transverse troughs that includes at least a first transverse trough and a second transverse trough;
- an intermediate slope sheet assembly defining a first slope sheet of said first trough and a first slope sheet of said second trough;
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- said intermediate slope sheet assembly being pin-joint connected to said straight-through center sill;
- said first slope sheet has at least a first lateral reinforcement and a second lateral reinforcement extending cross-wise behind said slope sheet;
- said first lateral reinforcement being a lower reinforcement and said second lateral reinforcement being an upper reinforcement;
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- said upper reinforcement has a different cross-section from said lower reinforcement.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.