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Decorative Jeweled Wheel Cover
An improved wheel is provided wherein decorative items such as gem stones are embedded in either the wheel surface, a special mounting section attached to the wheel surface, or to a spoke strap that wraps around each spoke and positions embedded gem stones on the outside surface of the spoke.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5584939 | Method for cleaning rail cars Cleaning methods for rail cars that haul freight, such as covered hoppers, open hoppers, box cars, tank cars, autoracks, locomotives, flat cars, remove the residue from materials transported by the rail car itself. The rail cars have at least one surface.... | 12/17/1996 |
| 5574469 | Locomotive collision avoidance method and system A method and system are disclosed for improved collision avoidance of two locomotives by periodically receiving on each locomotive digitally encoded data to determine its geographical location, speed and direction of travel by means of an onboard global p... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5481983 | Magnetic sweeper apparatus and method A magnetic sweeper 20 is disclosed for capturing airborne particles which exhibit ferromagnetic behavior. The magnetic sweeper 20 uses a magnet(s) 43 having a magnetic field strength which captures particles coming within a predetermined distance of the m... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5405081 | Anti-abrasion rail seat system A fluid impervious polymeric membrane separating a resilient pad from a railroad crosstie and having a width substantially greater than the resilient pad to resist moisture and mechanical forces in penetration between the concrete tie and the pad. The wid... | 04/11/1995 |
| 5307744 | Magnetic skirt product protection assembly for transporting on railroad cars A magnetic skirt assembly is provided which is used as a metallic particle and grit collector on a railroad car to protect transported products. The magnetic skirt (20) includes a supporting frame structure (21) and a magnetic material (36) operatively at... | 05/03/1994 |
| 5302072 | Trackside door closing device for railway hopper cars A trackside device for closing hopper doors (14) has an eccentrically rotatable wheel (18). The wheel (18) rotates upon contacting a hopper door (14) to move it inward to a closed position. In a preferred embodiment, two devices are positioned on opposite... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5269225 | Apparatus and method for distributing and applying rail clips and insulators An automatic rail securing device (10) mounted on a railroad car (12) upon which a device (20) for manipulating the track is mounted, as well as work positions to permit the placement of insulators (40) on the railroad ties (34) as well as clips (5). A cl... | 12/14/1993 |
| 5209792 | High-strength, damage-resistant rail A high-strength, damage-resistant rail characterized by essentially consists of 0.60 to 0.85 wt. % of C, 0.1 to 1.0 wt. % of Si, 0.5 to 1.5 wt. % of Mn, not more than 0.035 wt. % of P, not more than 0.040 wt. % of S, and not more than 0.05 wt. % of Al, a ... | 05/11/1993 |
| 4893717 | Trailer hitch for use with a railroad car A hitch (10) for releasably connecting a double stack trailer to a road railer car having a tongue (14) having an opening (15) includes a top wall (16), bottom wall (24) and first and second walls (28) and (30) cooperatively connected to form a housing (1... | 01/16/1990 |
