Track-bound freight car for bulk material
AssigneeFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
InventorsJosef Theurer, Friedrich Oellerer, Manfred Brunninger
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Abstract
A track-bound freight car comprising a box for storing bulk material, the box having a bottom portion and comprising a longitudinally extending conveyor in the bottom portion of the box, a carrier frame bearing the conveyor, the conveyor and carrier frame having a width exceeding the width of the bottom portion of the box car, and two longitudinally extending side walls, at least a lower portion of the side walls adjacent the conveyor being pivotal about a longitudinally extending axis away from the conveyor, or a lower side wall portion being detachable.
Claims7
A track-bound flat-bed freight car comprising
- (a) a loading platform,
- (b) a box for storing bulk material, the box having a bottom portion and comprising
- (1) a longitudinally extending conveyor in the bottom portion of the box,
- (2) a carrier frame bearing the conveyor, and
- (3) the box carrier frame having a length not exceeding that of the loading platform,
- (c) supports of different lengths projecting downwardly from the carrier frame for supporting the carrier frame and conveyor on the loading platform in a longitudinally extending plane extending obliquely with respect to the loading platform from a higher discharge end to a lower end, both conveyor ends being in the bottom portion of the box and the higher discharge end being vertically spaced from the loading platform a distance not exceeding half the height of the box, and
- (d) a delivery conveyor band projecting beyond an end of the loading platform and ascending from a receiving end immediately above the loading platform end and immediately below the higher discharge end of the longitudinally extending conveyor to an upper end.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.