Railcar gate adaptor and railcar modification using the same
AssigneeJac Operations, Inc.
InventorsMichael H. Kress, Gregory P. Josephson, Ethan Ryan Terrel
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Abstract
A railcar modification comprises a pair of spaced trucks; a multiple bay hopper railcar body on the pair of trucks; a hopper floor in the railcar body, wherein each bay of the hopper railcar body has hoppers formed of sloped floor sheets having a hopper floor slope; a plurality of gate adaptors, each gate adapter coupled to the floor sheets of a hopper, wherein the gate adapter includes a plurality of floor sheet panels, a plurality of transition panels and a plurality of gate panels, and wherein a difference in slope angles between the floor sheet panels, transition panels and gate panels combine to form a vertical offset; and a plurality of gates, each gate coupled to one gate adapter.
Claims15
A railcar comprising:
- A pair of spaced trucks;
- a multiple bay hopper railcar body on the pair of trucks;
- a hopper floor in the railcar body, wherein each bay of the hopper railcar body has hoppers formed of sloped floor sheets having a hopper floor slope;
- a plurality of gate adaptors, each gate adapter coupled to the floor sheets of a hopper, wherein the gate adapter includes four floor sheet panels extending around the top of the gate adaptor, four transition panels extending around the periphery of the gate adapter and adjacent to and coupled to the four floor sheet panels and four gate panels extending around the periphery of the gate adapter and adjacent to and coupled to the four transition panels, and wherein a difference in slope angles between the floor sheet panels, transition panels and gate panels combine to form a vertical offset,
- a plurality of gates, each gate coupled to one gate adapter.
A gate adaptor configured to couple a gate to floor sheets of a floor of a hopper railcar comprising four floor sheet panels extending around the top of the gate adaptor, four transition panels extending around the periphery of the gate adapter and adjacent to and coupled to the four floor sheet panels and four gate panels that extend around the bottom of the gate adaptor, and wherein a difference in slope angles between the floor sheet panels, transition panels and gate panels combine to form a vertical offset.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.