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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322298 | Flexible floor and a corridor connection including the floor The invention relates to a flexible floor designed to be suspended from an undulating flexible bellows in order to form a corridor connection module, said floor presenting undulating raised edges at its transverse ends, and, on its bottom face, transverse ribs in wh... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7275488 | Auto rack railway car A railway car for transportation of motor vehicles. The railway car may be articulated, comprising two or more units. The railway car may have end doors which are pivotally attached to the roof of the railway car. Flexible seals may be provided along the inner and o... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7131383 | Inner wall lining of the bellows of a connection between two hinge-linked vehicles or vehicle parts An inner wall lining of the bellows of a connection between two hinge-linked vehicles or vehicle parts is provided, the inner wall lining including several wall elements that are disposed within the connection so as to be slidabic relative to each other via a guide ... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7073845 | Aerodynamic drag reduction apparatus for gap-divided bluff bodies such as tractor-trailers An apparatus for reducing the aerodynamic drag of a bluff-bodied vehicle such as a tractor-trailer in a flowstream, the bluff-bodied vehicle of a type having a leading portion, a trailing portion connected to the leading portion, and a gap between the leading and tr... | 07/11/2006 |
| 6945176 | Intercommunicating passageways in double-decker railway coaches An intercommunicating passageway (9) between double-decker articulated railway coaches (1) including a wheel frame (10) with a lowered center section (11) and a pair of wheels (12a, 12b) are at an area between ... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6926344 | Pleat or corrugation of a bellows of a connection between two hinge-linked vehicles or vehicle sections e.g., of an articulated bus The subject matter of the invention is a pleat or corrugation of a bellows of a connection between two hinge-linked vehicles or vehicle sections e.g., of an articulated bus, the corrugation or pleat in the corner zone of the bellows being comprised, for the purpose ... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6840529 | Articulated pickup truck camper/trailer A recreational vehicle is made up of a pickup truck, a camper which is releasably mounted on the pickup truck and includes an accessway between the cab of the pickup truck and the camper, and a trailer which communicates with the camper through an articulated passag... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6401626 | Connecting device between two vehicle parts hinged to one another of an articulated vehicle Connecting device (1) between two vehicle parts hinged to one another of an articulated vehicle, comprising a lower swivel joint (10) and a connection with a bellows (30) and an intercar gangway (20), whereas the swivel joint (10) is provided with two joi... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6196132 | Bellows of a connecting corridor between two hinge-linked vehicles or vehicle parts Bellows of a connecting corridor between two hinge-linked vehicles or vehicle parts, whereas the bellows is provided with several bellows elements connected together, whereas each bellows element is showing two opposite legs in the initial state of the be... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6085403 | Method of making a gangway bellows for rolling stock A gangway bellows for rolling stock, where the bellows has corrugated regions forming a deformable volume, and comprises a plurality of assembled-together modules, each module being made of a rubber-base material and including at least two corrugated regi... | 07/11/2000 |
| 6076470 | Central frame of a connecting corridor bellows subdivided in two halves The subdivided bellows of a connecting element is provided between two articulated vehicle components. The halves of the bellows are coupled at their ends to a vehicle component, and a middle frame (1) has a device for guiding supply lines (100), e.g. tub... | 06/20/2000 |
| 6054194 | Mathematically optimized family of ultra low distortion bellow fold patterns An improved mathematically modeled family of bellow fold patterns, useful for making bellows from stiff but foldable materials, which forms a corner of a bellow consisting of a series of several single inversion fold patterns, each having a characteristic... | 04/25/2000 |
| 6009813 | Connection between two vehicles hinged to one another, e.g. railway coaches or underground coaches The invention relates to a connection between two vehicles hinged to one another, e.g. railway coaches or underground coaches, whereas the connection comprises a bellows and an intercommunicating gangway, whereas the connection may be divided transversely... | 01/04/2000 |
| 5953998 | Gangway bellows for rolling stock A gangway bellows for rolling stock, where the bellows has corrugated regions forming a deformable volume, and comprises a plurality of assembled-together modules, each module being made of a rubber-base material and including at least two corrugated regi... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5855985 | Non-planar flexible articles having improved mechanical service, and methods of making Non-planar thermoplastic article having a flexible portion suitable for use in an aggressive chemical environment, with the flexible portion is an irradiated thermoplastic consisting of polyethylene, ethylene methyl acrylate, ethylene ethyl acrylate, or e... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5647282 | Flexible sheating for connecting corridors Flexible sheating for connecting corridors, and, more particularly a cover for the side wall of a connecting corridor between two connected vehicles, whereas the cover (1) is designed in one piece and has a varying flexibility over the expense of the cove... | 07/15/1997 |
| 5562042 | Elastic membrane The elastic membrane is designed as a flat, three-dimensional object. It has prominences and depressions. This makes possible a deformation which is substantially free of stress, in particular free of tensile stress, simultaneously in all three dimensions... | 10/08/1996 |
| 5546866 | Bellows A crossing apparatus for use with a tunnel-shaped bellows mounted between two vehicles connected to one another in an articulated manner in which an apron bridges a gap between the side wall of the bellows and a turning platform. The apron has folds corre... | 08/20/1996 |
| 5511491 | Railway car An improved automobile transport railway car that is constructed from noncorroding materials adjacent to load carrying areas and that is enclosed by doors on both ends of the car. In the case of the articulated cars, a bellows assembly encloses and spans ... | 04/30/1996 |
| 5487555 | Hinge connection between two vehicles connected to each other in an articulated manner Hinge connection between two vehicles, which are connected to each other in an articulated manner such that the two vehicles can be adjusted in relation to one another around a vertical axis, a transverse axis, and a longitudinal axis. Movements around th... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5471934 | Bellows as a passage protection device for articulated vehicles A bellows has integral connecting members joining the side wall and floor or roof fabricated from a sheet of flexible material with displaced longitudinal folds having adjacent seams to form a tongue and a pocket for receiving the tongue when the sections... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5456186 | Bellows for articulated vehicles A bellows for articulated vehicles has side walls reinforced to have greater rigidity that the top and bottom of the bellows in order to enable relative horizontal motion while preventing bulging or collapsing of the side walls. The side walls may have on... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5392717 | Railway car An improved automobile transport railway car that is constructed from noncorroding materials adjacent to load carrying areas and that is enclosed by doors on both ends of the car. In the case of the articulated cars, a bellows assembly encloses and spans ... | 02/28/1995 |
| 5111752 | Membrane system for connecting successive railway or roadway vehicles Elastically deformable self-supporting membrane making possible intercommunication between consecutive railway vehicles formed by corrugations of increasing depths and essentially constant thickness. The thickness of each end corrugation is increased and ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5060577 | Diaphragm assembly for the ends of passenger railroad cars comprising one piece integrally molded urethane channel members A diaphragm assembly for the ends of railroad passenger cars comprises a head section, a sill section, and a pair of spaced apart upright side sections which connect the ends of the head and sill sections together. Each section is made of a single cast of... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5060578 | Membrane system for connecting consecutive vehicles Elastically deformable self-supporting membrane making possible intercommunication between consecutive railway vehicles formed by corrugations of increasing depths and essentially constant thickness. The thickness of each end corrugation is increased and ... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5033395 | Membrane system for connecting railway vehicles or the like A preferred membrane system is for connecting railway vehicles or the like. Each of the vehicles has longitudinal walls extending along a direction of movement of the vehicle and ends extending substantially transverse to the longitudinal walls. The syste... | 07/23/1991 |
| 4984522 | Railroad car diaphragm assembly A diaphragm assembly (10) is provided around the doors (11) of adjacent railway cars (12) and together adjacent diaphragm assemblies (10) enclose the passageway between adjacent railway cars (12). Each diaphragm assembly (10) includes a mounting plate (15... | 01/15/1991 |
| 4942825 | Connect platform for rail vehicles The object of the invention is a diaphragm for passsenger railway cars, which consists of a platform (5) and a diaphragm (36, 2, 3) disposed in tunnel fashion over the platform. The system is so constructed that it provides good protection for the interio... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4903612 | Intercar gangway for articulated cars A corridor apparatus of an articulating section for use in articulated cars comprises: a pair of rectangular outer corridors respectively provided to end surfaces of car bodies to be articulated, in such a manner as to project therefrom and surround corri... | 02/27/1990 |
| 4860665 | Method for producing a bellows structure The invention relates to a bellows structure for the connection of two segments of an articulated vehicle. In order to perform their different functions the different parts of the bellows structure are submitted to differing degrees of irradiation in orde... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4798148 | Device for intercommunication between coupled vehicles in which passengers can walk freely, especially railway cars or road vehicles An intercommunication device mounted between the two oppositely-facing open ends of two coupled railway cars is constituted by a series of rings of generally rectangular shape consisting alternately of rigid rings and flexible rings suitably attached to e... | 01/17/1989 |
| 4736688 | Hood device for coupling cars A hood device for coupling cars comprises a first hood component having one end secured to one of a pair of car bodies to be coupled with each other and a second hood component having one end secured to the other car body and the other end adapted to be c... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4690421 | Crossover shelter between sections of articulated road and rail vehicles A gangway bellows is used as a cross-over shelter between two vehicles which are flexibly connected to each other. The sidewalls of the gangway bellows have a double-wall design. Each internal wall is constructed as a curtain, which is suspended at its up... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4596192 | Universal vehicle system for the public local traffic A vehicle system for local public passenger transportation, in which a number of vehicle components are used to realize a vehicle system according to a building-block system. The vehicle components are so constructed that they can be assembled into vehicl... | 06/24/1986 |
| 4539912 | Car bridging arrangement for high speed railway vehicles An arrangement for bridging adjacent cars in high speed railway vehicles posed of an inflatable chamber bellows section which extends entirely or partially about the outer structure of the cars wherein the stiffness of the bellows section may be automati... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4503779 | Interconnecting passage for articulated vehicle A tunnel structure for interconnecting passenger compartments on an articulated vehicle includes pairs of cylindrical walls which overlap during steering movement of the vehicle. To seal between the cylindrical walls, a pair of inner walls is provided whi... | 03/12/1985 |
| 4482165 | Damping system for articulated vehicle A damping system having a fluid-operated friction device located at the hinge connection of an articulated vehicle that provides progressively increased damping to movements about the yaw axis after the speed of the vehicle increases beyond a predetermine... | 11/13/1984 |
| 4477099 | Articulated coach air transfer system An air transfer system joins the plenum of a first vehicle section to the plenum of a second vehicle section in an articulated coach vehicle with minimal deflection or intrusion into the passenger space. A generally V-shaped collection manifold in the rea... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4452163 | Articulated coach coupling means An arrangement consisting of coupling elements allowing both pitch and yaw pivotal motion between two coupled modules or coaches, is disclosed. A transverse rod located at the end portion of one module is rigidly secured to a pair of arms and is supported... | 06/05/1984 |
