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US 2026/0062037 A1Published application
Hopper railroad car having partition and/or frame assemblies flexibly connected to the side walls and/or roof
AssigneeGunderson LLC
InventorsCaglar Ozerdim, Xiaoyan Lu, James T. Chambers
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Abstract
A hopper railroad car with partition and/or frame assemblies that reduce the likelihood of damage to the liners on such partition and/or frame assemblies, and specifically wherein the hopper railroad cars partition and/or frames assemblies are flexibly connected to the side walls and/or roof of the hopper railroad car to reduce the likelihood of damage to the liners on such partition and/or frame assemblies.
Claims18
A hopper railroad car comprising:
- a frame;
- a first side wall supported by the frame;
- a first side wall supported by the frame;
- a roof supported by the first side wall, the second side wall, and the frame;
- and
- a partition assembly positioned between the first side wall and the second side wall and partially forming multiple compartments of the hopper railroad car, the partition assembly including:
- an upright panel having an upper section and a lower section, the upright panel flexibly connected to the first side wall by a first channel and flexibly connected to the second wall by a second channel,
- a first lower angled panel having an upper section and a lower section, the upper section of the first lower angled panel connected to the lower section of the upright panel, and
- a second lower angled panel having an upper section and a lower section, the upper section of the second lower angled panel connected to the connected to the lower section of the upright panel.
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A hopper railroad car comprising:
- a frame;
- a first side wall supported by the frame;
- a first side wall supported by the frame;
- a roof supported by the first side wall, the second side wall, and the frame;
- and
- a frame assembly positioned between the first side wall and the second side and positioned in one compartment of the hopper railroad car, the frame assembly including:
- an upright panel having an upper section, wherein the upright panel is:
- flexibly connected to the first side wall by a first channel,
- flexibly connected to the second side wall by a second channel,
- flexibly connected to the roof by a third channel, and
- flexibly connected by the roof by fourth channel, wherein the third channel is spaced apart from the fourth channel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.