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US 2015/0344042 A1Published application
Rail tank car
AssigneeRail 152 IP Ltd
InventorsRoman Aleksandrovich Savushkin, Valterovich Kirill Kyakk, Sergey Aleksandrovich Fedorov, Ivan Andreevich Khilov, Sergeevich Aleksandr Kononenko, Yuriy Valdimirovich Pochitalov, Vladimir Ivanovich Guskov
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Abstract
A tank car comprises at least two sequentially arranged tanks, connected by a joint assembly and supported at the joint assembly by a common carnage. The distance between the closest points of the two sequentially arranged tanks of the tank car on a straight rail track section is less than 1000 mm. The invention provides increased effective volume of a tank car achieved by decreasing the distance between neighboring tanks.
Claims7
A tank car comprising:
- at least two sequentially arranged tanks, wherein each tank is mounted on a frame, and
- wherein adjacent frames of the at least two sequentially arranged tanks are connected by a joint assembly and supported at the joint assembly by a common carriage, and
- wherein the distance between the closest points of the two sequentially arranged tanks of the tank car on a straight rail track section is less than 1000 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.