Box car
AssigneeFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
InventorsJosef Theurer, Johann Hansmann
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Abstract
A mobile apparatus arranged to store and transport bulk material comprises a box car having a frame and a box for storing and transporting the bulk material. A conveyor band arrangement for conveying the bulk material stored in the box in a conveying direction has a portion extending over the length of the box in the lower portion thereof and passes through a slot-shaped outlet opening in a front wall of the box in the conveying direction, and a device having adjustable chutes for selectively discharing the conveyed bulk material to the right and to the left of each rail is arranged outside the box and receives the conveyed bulk material therefrom.
Claims7
An apparatus arranged for mobility along a track consisting of rails fastened to ties to store and transport bulk material, which comprises
- (a) a box car comprising
- (1) a frame and
- (2) a box for storing and transporting the bulk material, the box having a lower portion adjacent the frame,
- (b) a conveyor band arrangement for conveying the bulk material stored in the box in a conveying direction, the conveyor band arrangement
- (1) having a portion extending substantially over the entire length of the box in the lower portion thereof and
- (2) passing through a slot-shaped outlet opening in a front wall of the box in the conveying direction for conveying the bulk material through the outlet opening, and
- (c) a device having adjustable chutes for selectively discharging the conveyed bulk material to the immediate right and to the left adjacent each rail, the bulk material discharging device being arranged in front of the outlet opening and outside the box and receiving the conveyed bulk material therefrom.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.