Dual bottom trough gondola railway car
AssigneeThrall Car Manufacturing Company
InventorJames C. Heap
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Abstract
A gondola railway car having a car truck attached to each end of a continuous center sill, a pair of generally vertical end panels, a pair of generally vertical side panels joined to the end panels, a plurality of cross bearers extending from the center sill to a longitudinal chord at the bottom of each side panel, a car bottom between the end and side panels having substantially flat portions over the trucks and a pair of longitudinal trough portions between the trucks and the flat bottom portions, each trough portion having a side edge joined to a side panel bottom edge and a side edge joined to the center sill, and an end wall at each end of each trough extending to the adjacent flat bottom portion.
Claims9
A gondola railway car comprising:
- a car truck attached to each end of a continuous center sill,
- a pair of generally vertical end panels,
- a pair of generally vertical side panels joined to the end panels,
- a plurality of cross bearers extending from the center sill to a longitudinal chord at the bottom of each side panel,
- a car bottom between the end and side panels having substantially flat portions over the trucks and a pair of longitudinal trough portions between the trucks and extending below the flat bottom portions,
- a vertical plate joined to a cross bearer on each side of the center sill and extending downwardly terminating in a peripheral edge corresponding to the shape of the trough therebeneath,
- a strip joined to each vertical plate peripheral edge and extending laterally therefrom between the longitudinal chord at the bottom of the side panel and the center sill,
- the trough being in sections supported at the ends by such strips,
- each trough having a side edge joined to a side panel bottom edge and a side edge joined to the center sill, and
- an end wall at each end of each trough extending to the adjacent flat bottom portion.
A gondola railway car comprising:
- a car truck attached to each end of a continuous center sill,
- a pair of generally vertical end panels,
- a pair of generally vertical side panels joined to the end panels,
- a plurality of cross bearers extending from the center sill to a longitudinal chord at the bottom of each side panel,
- the cross bearers being essentially triangular in lateral section and with the top surface thereof horizontal,
- a car bottom between the end and side panels having substantially flat portions over the trucks and a pair of longitudinal trough portions between the trucks and extending below the flat bottom portions,
- each trough portion having a side edge joined to a side panel bottom edge and a side edge joined to the center sill, and
- an end wall at each end of each trough extending to the adjacent flat bottom portion.
A gondola railway car comprising:
- a car truck attached to each end of a continuous center sill,
- a pair of generally vertical end panels,
- a pair of generally vertical side panels joined to the end panels,
- a plurality of cross bearers extending from the center sill to a longitudinal chord at the bottom of each side panel,
- a car bottom between the end and side panels having substantially flat portions over the trucks and a pair of longitudinal trough portions between the trucks and extending below the flat bottom portions,
- each trough portion having a side edge joined to a side panel bottom edge and a side edge joined to the center sill,
- an end wall at each end of each trough extending to the adjacent flat bottom portion, and
- the longitudinal chord at the bottom of each side panel being a Zee-member with the Zee-member web horizontal and the inner flange extending upwardly from the web to which the side panels are joined, and the trough side edges are joined to the inner flange adjacent the web.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.