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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8166892 | Railroad gondola car structure and mechanism therefor A railroad gondola car has a hopper carried between two trucks. The hopper has convergent end and side slope sheets that feed a bottom discharge. The bottom discharge has a pair of longitudinal doors. The door closing mechanism is a mechanical transmission that incl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8141726 | Railroad gondola car structure and mechanism therefor A railroad gondola car has a hopper carried between two trucks. The hopper has convergent end and side slope sheets that feed a bottom discharge. The bottom discharge has a pair of longitudinal doors. The car has a very short draft installation that includes a remov... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8132515 | Railroad gondola car structure and mechanism therefor A railroad gondola car has a hopper carried between two trucks. The hopper has convergent end and side slope sheets that feed a bottom discharge. The bottom discharge has a pair of longitudinal doors. The door closing mechanism is a mechanical transmission that incl... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8113126 | Rail road car truck and bolster therefor A rail road freight car truck has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transversely relative to the side frames. The mounting interface between the ends of the axles and the sideframe pedestals allows lateral rocking motion of t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8065964 | Rail road hopper car ridge fittings A hopper car discharge section may be wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Outflow is controlled by movable closure members. The hopper car has a plurality of hoppers of which two hoppers share a common ridge assembly. The ridge assembly forms a common mating a... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8047140 | Rail road hopper car structure A hopper car discharge section may be wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Outflow is controlled by movable closure members. The hopper car has a plurality of hoppers of which two hoppers share a common ridge assembly. The ridge assembly forms a common mating a... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8025014 | Railroad freight car A railroad freight car may have a body for carrying lading. The body may be a gondola car body. The car body may include a decking or floor structure, and may include longitudinally extending side beams bordering the floor structure. The connection of the side beams... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8011306 | Rail road car and truck therefor A railroad car truck for a railroad freight car, such as an autorack car, has a bolster mounted cross-wise between two sideframes. The bolster ends are mounted on respective spring groups carried by the sideframes. The bolster can translate laterally relative to the... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8011305 | Symmetrical multi-unit railroad car The present invention relates to symmetrical arrangements in multi-unit articulated rail road cars. A multi-unit railroad car has an odd number of railcar units joined end to end by articulated connectors supported by railcar trucks. The railroad car has a transvers... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7921783 | Hopper car with lading dislodgement fittings and method of operation A hopper car discharge section may be wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Outflow is controlled by closure members, at least one of which is movable. The closure members come together to a closed condition or position for retaining lading. When apart, in an op... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7908975 | Hollow railroad car structure An hollow railroad car may be a have a lading containment structure that is a pressure vessel. The car may be a covered hopper car having one or more hopper discharge sections. Each hopper discharge section may include a transition from a substantially rectangular u... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7845288 | Rail road car truck and members thereof A rail road freight car truck has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transversely relative to the side frames. The mounting interface between the ends of the axles and the sideframe pedestals allows lateral rocking motion of t... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7878125 | Railroad freight car A railroad freight car may have a body for carrying lading. The body may be a gondola car body. The car body may include a decking or floor structure, and may include longitudinally extending side beams bordering the floor structure. The connection of the side beams... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7866267 | Well car with cross member A well car for carrying shipping containers has a pair of end structures supported by rail car trucks, a pair of first and second spaced apart side beams extending between the end structures and a well defined therebetween. A container support cross member is mounte... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7823514 | Hopper car side construction and method A hopper car has arcuate side sheets that are bent over the forming members of the structure to give a generally outwardly bulging shape. The upper margin of the side sheet is kinked inwardly of the radius of curvature of the larger portion of the side sheet more ge... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7823513 | Rail road car truck A rail road freight car truck has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transversely relative to the side frames. The mounting interface between the ends of the axles and the sideframe pedestals allows lateral rocking motion of t... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7789023 | Auto rack railcar with end closure An auto rack rail road car has a main deck and upper deck. It is provided with a door for controlling access thereto. The door is a radial arm door, and has a ladder mounted thereon by which personnel can ascend the second deck when the door is open. A second ladder... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7784411 | Rail road car body structure A rail road freight car, which may be a gondola car, may have a flat deck, and a peripheral wall structure. The peripheral wall structure may include arcuate sidewalls and arcuate endwalls. The car body may include internal stiffeners having an arcuate outside sidew... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780021 | Rail road car draft fittings A rail road car has draft sills, and draft gear mounted in the draft sills, by which loads are passed along the train line of cars. The draft gear is mounted to the drafts sill webs between front and rear draft stops. The front and rear draft stops have portions tha... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7775163 | Rail road car and bearing adapter fittings therefor A rail road freight car truck, which may be a Barber S2HD truck or other kind of truck, has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transversely relative to the side frames. The sideframes are mounted on a pair of wheelsets. The bo... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7757611 | Railroad freight car A railroad freight car may have a body for carrying lading. The body may be a gondola car body. The car body may include a decking or floor structure, and may include longitudinally extending side beams bordering the floor structure. The connection of the side beams... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7708624 | Clip machine comprising a closure lever and a process for the production of a closure lever The invention concerns a clip machine comprising at least one closure lever which has a bearing element defining a pivot axis, a receiving element for at least one first closure tool and a force application element for connection to a drive element, wherein the clos... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7704130 | Sausage casing brake with adjustable braking force A retention device for a tubular casing material for receiving a viscous or granular filling material in a packaging machine, in particular a clipping machine that has a filling tube for filling the tubular casing material with the filling material, where the retent... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7703397 | Rail road hopper car fittings and method of operation A hopper car discharge section may be wide at the top and narrow at the bottom. Outflow is controlled by closure members, at least one of which is movable. The closure members come together to a closed condition or position for retaining lading. When apart, in an op... | 04/27/2010 |
| RE41261 | Center beam car with deep upper beam structure A center beam car has a main deck structure extending laterally from a main center sill, a laterally extending top truss structure, and a central vertically oriented web work structure for carrying vertical shear loads. The center beam so formed defines bunks upon i... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7699008 | Rail road freight car with damped suspension An auto rack rail road freight car is provided for carrying low density, relatively high value, relatively fragile lading. The car has trucks that have multiple dampers in a four corner arrangement in the sideframes. The dampers may include damper wedges having prim... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7694490 | Closing tool assembly A closing tool assembly for a clip machine, in particular for a sausage clipping machine, containing: at least one first and at least one second tool holder, which can be moved to positions opposite each other and reversibly towards each other, and each of which sup... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7681506 | Truck bolster A railroad car truck bolster may be formed as a steel casting. That bolster may include side bearing fitting access sockets located abreast of the side bearing seats. It may also include substantially continuous internal cavities to either side of a cross-wise inter... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7666073 | Closure clip with round bottom A closure clip for products in bag or sausage form, the packaging cover material of which is formed from at least one packaging film, wherein the closure clip has a clip bottom and two straight clip legs which adjoin the clip bottom in the same direction and which d... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7665687 | Clip storage drum provided with a transponder A drum for storing and dispensing a coiled material wound on the drum, in particular a line of clips, the drum comprising a drum body which has a hub and side walls respectively disposed at the axial end faces of the hub, the side walls extending beyond the outer ci... | 02/23/2010 |
| 7654889 | Clip machine A clip machine for dividing and sealing tubular-shaped packaging filled with stuffing having at least two axially spaced pairs of radially opposed displacement elements, relating to the axis of the packaging tube, which are linked to and equipped with a linear guide... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7654204 | Rail road car truck with bearing adapter and method A swing motion rail road freight car truck is provided that has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transversely relative to the side frames. The side frames have spring seats for the groups of springs. The springs seats may be... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7648411 | Portion pack with a suspension loop and method and device for attaching it A suspension loop for a portion pack, consisting of a tubular sleeve, sealed on its ends by clips, in particular sausages, is attached to the end of a tubular sleeve drawn together to form a string of sausages by a twist knot formed from the suspension loop. The sus... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7631603 | Rail road car truck and bolster therefor A rail road freight car truck has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transversely relative to the side frames. The mounting interface between the ends of the axles and the sideframe pedestals allows lateral rocking motion of t... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7618307 | Direct linking of sausage filling and clipping machine and sausage conveyor apparatus A system having a sausage and filling clipping machine and a sausage conveyor apparatus as well as a method of controlling the system is described. In the system the sausage filling and clipping machine has a filling pipe. The motor-driven sausage conveyor apparatus... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7610862 | Rail road car truck with rocking sideframe A swing motion rail road freight car truck is provided that does not have lateral underslung cross bracing in the nature of a transom, a frame brace, or lateral rods. The truck has a truck bolster and a pair of sideframes, the truck bolster being mounted transversel... | 11/03/2009 |
| 7604531 | Method of and apparatus for controlled closure of at least one clip around a filling material-free plait portion of a tubular casing at a filling material portion enclosed by the casing A method of and an apparatus for controlled closure of at least one clip around a filling material-free plait portion of a tubular casing at a filling material portion enclosed by the casing, where the at least one clip is closed with at least one closure device and... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7603954 | Rail road car and truck therefor A rail road car truck has side frames mounted to rock on the wheelsets. A bolster is mounted cross-wise on the sideframes, each end of the bolster being seated on a spring group, each spring group being seated in one of the sideframe windows. The bolster has damper ... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7575506 | Automatic spreading adjustment An apparatus for producing a plaited portion on a packaging casing material which accommodates a filling material, in particular sausage meat, wherein the plaited portion is at least approximately filling material-free at least during the formation thereof, includin... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7560672 | Heated pump with boiling protection A heating system for heating fluid media including a carrier unit, a heating unit arranged on the carrier unit and a heat transfer element arranged on the carrier unit and includes a material which is a good conductor of heat, which heat transfer element has a first... | 07/14/2009 |
