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US 2026/0200506 A1Published application
Covered hopper railcar
OwnerGregory P. Josephson, Joseph Johns +1inventors
InventorsGregory P. Josephson, Joseph Johns, Daniel Militaru
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Abstract
A covered hopper railcar includes a pair of spaced trucks; a three-bay covered hopper railcar body on the pair of trucks; and a partition structure separating each bay from an adjacent bay, wherein each partition structure is extending vertically from sloped floor sheets to a roof structure and extending horizontally between side walls of the railcar body, wherein each partition includes a pair of horizontal ribs.
Claims20
A railcar comprising:
- a pair of spaced trucks;
- a covered hopper railcar body on the pair of trucks, wherein the covered hopper railcar body defines at least three bays, and including sloped floor sheets;
- a roof structure;
- a pair of sidewalls extending to the roof structure;
- a pair of top chords with each top chord formed wherein one of the sidewalls extends up to the roof structure and is coupled thereto whereby the top chord is formed as a closed section tubular member by an upper portion of the side sheet and outer portion of the roof cover,
- a partition structure separating each bay from an adjacent bay, wherein each partition structure is extending vertically from the sloped floor sheets to the roof structure and extending horizontally between the side walls of the railcar body.
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A railcar comprising:
- a pair of spaced trucks;
- a covered hopper railcar body on the pair of trucks, wherein the covered hopper railcar body defines at least three bays, and including sloped floor sheets;
- a roof structure;
- a pair of sidewalls extending to the roof structure;
- a pair of top chords with each top chord formed wherein one of the sidewalls extends up to the roof structure and is coupled thereto whereby the top chord is formed as a closed section tubular member by an upper portion of the side sheet and outer portion of the roof cover,
- a partition structure separating each bay from an adjacent bay, wherein each partition structure is extending vertically from the sloped floor sheets to the roof structure and extending horizontally between the side walls of the railcar body, and
- a car-jacking structure having a plate, a jacking structure bottom chord, and a plurality of internal vertical longitudinally spaced web supports.
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A railcar comprising:
- a pair of spaced trucks;
- a three-bay covered hopper railcar body on the pair of trucks;
- a partition structure separating each bay from an adjacent bay, wherein each partition structure is extending vertically from sloped floor sheets to a roof structure and extending horizontally between side walls of the railcar body, wherein each partition is coupled to the sloped floor sheets of adjacent bays through a reinforcing triangular member extending between the side walls.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.