Gondola car underframe
AssigneeSwiss Aluminium Ltd.
InventorsJurg Zehnder, Erich Neumeier
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Abstract
Very high demands are made on gondola cars which are emptied on rotating/tilting unloading devices. Such cars must provide long service lives even under these very rough conditions, and they should allow simple loading and unloading via a rotating/tilting device. In accordance with the instant disclosure, the high strength of the gondola car body is maintained in a simple manner in that the flooring sheets of the body are set into grooves in the longitudinal center sill, and into a groove in each inside of the lower side sills, and then welded to the said sills. Also the walls of the car may be set in different ways, as by setting them into a groove in the upper side of the lower side sills and into a groove in the lower side of the upper side sill, and then welded to the said side sills.
Claims14
A high strength gondola car comprising a car body, a grooved longitudinal center sill reinforcing said car body, two trucks pivotally mounted on said longitudinal center sill, a buffer coupling at each end of said car, grooved lower side sills spaced from the center sill, car body flooring sheets set into said grooves in the longitudinal center sill and into said grooves in an inner side of the lower side sills and welded to the said center sill and the side sills, and said car including car body walls and upper side sills having grooves in the lower side thereof, wherein the car body walls are set into the grooves in the lower side sills and into the grooves in the lower side of the upper side sill, and welded to said upper and lower side sills.
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