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US 5,581,951 AGranted
Rail car crown gasket
AssigneePennsylvania Rail Car Company
InventorsSamuel Ryan, Dean Kyriakou
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Abstract
A rail car crown gasket for rail cars to provide a continuous seal between railroad box car doors and the rail car. The rail car door gasket is of a continuous elongated construction that is secured into a gasket mounting channel in the rail car doors.
Claims5
A rail car door gasket for use on rail cars having a main door and an auxiliary door in an aligned overlapping relation said car door gasket comprises;
- a one-piece elongated tubular body member of resilient composition gasket material, said car door gasket defining an arcuate wall portion with opposing integral sidewalls extending therefrom, an elongated base portion having opposing integral flanges extending outwardly therefrom, multiple sealing ribs on said arcuate wall portion, oppositely disposed sealing flanges extending outwardly from said sidewalls, said sealing flanges having a first portion and a second portion, oppositely disposed vertically offset in-turned angular areas below said sealing flanges, and means for mounting said gasket in car door recess areas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.