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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5168717 | CO2 cooled railcar A refrigerated railcar having a bunker for holding CO2 snow generated by a spray manifold temporarily hooked up to a supply of liquid CO2, the bunker allowing the gaseous CO2 sublimated from the formed snow to pass down th... | 12/08/1992 |
| 4711274 | External purge system for a tank train A novel purge system for a string of tank cars wherein purge gas is directly introduced into the vapor space of each tank above the cargo in the tank and wherein the purge gas is not bubbled through the cargo but is supplied directly to the vapor space ab... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4664038 | Door latch control apparatus for hopper vehicle A hopper vehicle has a hopper door movable between open and closed positions and carrying a door latch movable between latching and unlatching configurations with respect to a keeper on the hopper vehicle. A secondary latch on the door is pivotally movabl... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4664307 | Spirally welded tank cars Railroad tank cars are provided with spirally wound cylindrical tanks spanning and supported on wheeled trucks with a continuous weld extending the full length of the tank. A steel plate ribbon or strip is spirally wound in the form of a right circular cy... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4586547 | Ball valve purge device for tank cars A novel ball valve type purging device for a tank train ball valve purging device wherein a one-way valve is connected in an upper portion of a long vertical interconnecting pipe between adjacent cars of a string of tank cars so as to let gas pass from th... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4557199 | Lifting structure for railway tank car The tank of a railway tank car is supported adjacent to its opposite ends on two truck-mounted underframes, each underframe including a pair of body bolster plates disposed in a plane substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tank and ha... | 12/10/1985 |
| 4515189 | Molten sulfur tank car assembly One or a series of wheeled tank cars for carrying a commodity which must be heated for effective handling and which produces noxious gases when heated is provided with a closed vapor recovery system, including valved lines respectively associated with eac... | 05/07/1985 |
| 4513795 | Tank with selectively variable automatic outage The tank of a railway tank car has two top-mounted lading conduits coupled thereto in fluid communication therewith. One of the lading conduits has the inner end thereof disposed at the minimum fill level of the tank. A vapor vent fitting is also formed i... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4493266 | Railway hopper car and center sill construction therefor A railway hopper car has a through center sill including an elongated central section substantially A-shaped in transverse cross section, two end sections substantially hat-shaped in transverse cross section and two transition sections respectively connec... | 01/15/1985 |
| 4440528 | Container for pulverulent material A railway car for transporting pulverulent lading includes a fluid-tight container, slope sheets mounted within the container defining two troughs leading to a sump in the lower portion of the container, two aligned permeable conveyors in the bottom of ea... | 04/03/1984 |
| 4414462 | Tank car heating system A heated railway tank car includes heating conduits arranged on the tank and filled with a heating fluid and coupled to an electrically driven pump and heat exchanger in a closed-loop system for heating and continuously recirculating the heating fluid thr... | 11/08/1983 |
| 4304271 | Tank car and train thereof and loading and unloading systems A railway train including a plurality of interconnected tank cars, each car comprising a tank with a lading conduit extending the length thereof and having first and second pipes communicating with the interior of the tank with one of the pipes extending ... | 12/08/1981 |
| 4245749 | Safety device A safety device for a pressure vessel having an opening therein in which is positioned an upstanding base secured around the vessel opening with a frangible diaphragm covering the opening. A protective cap covers the base with the frangible diaphragm and ... | 01/20/1981 |
| 4079760 | Baffle for automatic outage A railway train comprised of interconnected tank cars, each provided with two lading conduits coupled to and in fluid communication with the tank car. A baffle is positioned in the tank car intermediate the lading conduits to provide an automatic outage f... | 03/21/1978 |
| 4012322 | Macerator-sterilizer sewage treatment system The macerator-sterilizer sewage treatment system, that is useful in an overall toilet system to collect, treat and discharge toilet wastes, comprises: macerator/transfer pump means to receive flushed human waste from toilets and urinals; a collection tank... | 03/15/1977 |
| 4008739 | Drop center tank A railway train includes a plurality of interconnected tank cars, each car comprising a tank provided with two lading conduits in the top thereof extending thereinto for communication with the interior thereof and each having an outer end extending above ... | 02/22/1977 |
| 4007766 | Vapor vent collection line for tank cars A railway tank car is provided for interconnection in fluid communication with associated tank cars. Each of the tank cars includes a tank mounted on a chassis structure with two lading conduits respectively coupled to the tank, each having an outer end e... | 02/15/1977 |
| 4002192 | Railway tank car train having a two-way loading and unloading system A railway train made up of individual tank cars for interconnection and fluid communication with associated-like tank cars by flexible connecting conduits, wherein each tank car includes a wheeled chassis structure provided with coupling means for couplin... | 01/11/1977 |
| 3989059 | Support for interconnection hose A railway train includes a plurality of interconnected tank cars, each car comprising a tank provided with two lading conduits in the top thereof extending thereinto for communication with the interior thereof and each having an outer end extending above ... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3989310 | Proportioning device A proportioning device is provided for use with a sealable chamber for unloading pulverulent material from a bulk transport system which includes a fluid inlet conduit having one terminal end in communication with the chamber for transmitting fluid into t... | 11/02/1976 |
| 3980212 | Hopper unloading system An unloading system for granular lading comprising a hopper having four cells each with a discharge opening in the lower portion thereof, a discharge tube below the hopper and communicating with each of the openings, two part-tubular sliders within the di... | 09/14/1976 |
| 3974075 | Toilet system The toilet system includes an evaporator tank having an inlet and an outlet that is at the top portion of the tank, a first electrical heater mounted on the tank, macerator/transfer pump means connected to the inlet of the tank to transfer flushed waste f... | 08/10/1976 |
| 3971491 | Intermodal tank container An intermodal tank container for use interchangeably in railroad, highway, marine and terminal modes, including a tank for containing lading and having means for loading lading thereinto and means for unloading lading therefrom, two spaced-apart end frame... | 07/27/1976 |
| 3944113 | Floating roof A floating roof for floating upon and covering liquids stored in storage tanks, the roof including a deck generally conforming to the shape of the associated storage tank and having transverse dimensions and a thickness such that the deck is flexible, a p... | 03/16/1976 |
