Box car for transporting bulk material
AssigneeFranz Plasser Bahnbaumaschinen-Industriegesellschaft m.b.H.
InventorsJosef Theurer, Manfred Brunninger
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Abstract
A box car for transporting bulk material comprises a frame supported on undercarriages running on a track, a box supported on the frame for storing the bulk material, a bottom conveyor band arranged in the box, the bottom conveyor band being reversibly drivable in opposite conveying directions, and an inclined transfer conveyor band projecting beyond one end of the box car. A chute is arranged at an end of the box car opposite the one end and spaced from the transfer conveyor, an end of the bottom conveyor band being associated with the chute, a hopper is associated with the chute for discharging bulk material into the hopper, and a charging conveyor band has a discharge end above the hopper, the charging conveyor band being displaceable in the longitudinal direction.
Claims7
A box car for transporting bulk material, the box car extending in a longitudinal direction and comprising
- (a) a frame supported on undercarriages running on a track,
- (b) a box supported on the frame for storing the bulk material,
- (c) a bottom conveyor band arranged in the box and extending in the longitudinal direction, the bottom conveyor band being reversibly drivable in opposite conveying directions,
- (d) an inclined transfer conveyor band projecting beyond one end of the box car,
- (e) a chute arranged at an end of the box car opposite the one end and spaced from the transfer conveyor,
- (1) an end of the bottom conveyor band being associated with the chute,
- (f) a hopper arranged above with the chute for discharging bulk material into the chute, and
- (g) a charging conveyor band extending in the longitudinal direction and having a discharge end above the hopper, the charging conveyor band being displaceable in the longitudinal direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.