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US 5,727,474 AGranted
Freight car for storage of bulk material
AssigneeFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
InventorsJosef Theurer, Manfred Brunninger
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Abstract
A freight car includes a carrier frame supportable on track-bound undercarriages for mobility on a track, a box formed by side walls and a bottom for storing bulk material, and a conveyor belt constituting the bottom of the box and extending in longitudinal direction for conveying bulk material in a conveying direction. Further mounted to the freight car are two off-track undercarriages which are spaced from each other in longitudinal direction and vertically adjustable independently from each other by own drives.
Claims10
A freight car;
- comprising:
- a carrier frame extending in a longitudinal direction;
- a first undercarriage assembly enabling a support of the carrier frame on a track;
- a box formed by side walls and a bottom for storing bulk material;
- a first conveyor belt forming the bottom of the box and extending in the longitudinal direction for conveying bulk material in a conveying direction;
- first drive means for operating the conveyor belt,
- a second undercarriage assembly including two, off-track undercarriages spaced from each other in the longitudinal direction;
- and
- second drive means for vertically adjusting the two undercarriages independently from each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.