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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7866683 | Gangway bellows A gangway bellows for lining an intercommunicating gangway between a front car and a rear car which is connected in an articulated fashion to the front car, has a gangway bellows floor that is releasably attached to a gangway bellows body. Two drill holes extend thr... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7658396 | Articulated vehicle made from several vehicle parts which are couplable together The invention relates to an articulated vehicle consisting of several vehicle parts (1, 2) which are couplable together, each vehicle part (1, 2) comprising at least two axles and one coupling frame (12) that is connected to said vehicle part ( | 02/09/2010 |
| 7422225 | Trailer apparatus and assembly for transportation of wheeled vehicles A plurality of trailer arrangements, configurations and assemblies are provided in combination with a tractor to transport wheeled vehicles over the highway, in compliance with current state and federal regulatory requirements and with a view toward future modificat... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7338060 | Corridor connection of a connection having a bellows between two vehicles connected together by a joint The invention is directed to a corridor connection (1) of a connection having a bellows between two vehicles connected together by a joint (30), e.g., of an articulated bus or a vehicle with a trailer, the corridor connection (1) comprising two ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7275901 | Combination passenger and cargo carrier A transport system having a chassis; a body mounted on the chassis, where the body includes a cabin for transporting at least one passenger; a cabin for the driver; a tandem coupled to the chassis; a drop frame secured to the chassis where the drop frame is below an... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7213872 | Fire engine A truck, in particular a fire-fighting utility vehicle. The vehicle has a structure mounted on a chassis frame with a driver's cab pivotable about a horizontal axis extending transversely to the travel direction. A crew and/or equipment cab is also mounted on the ch... | 05/08/2007 |
| 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 |
| 6923453 | Suspension leveling system In the operation of work machines of the type required to carry heavy loads over uneven ground conditions, it is oftentimes desirable to provide the work machine with a way to automatically maintain the chassis in a substantially horizontal condition. The present in... | 08/02/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6772698 | Articulated train having a low-floor section The invention is structured such that an additional low-floor Vehicle C (intermediate vehicle) is inserted between a high-floor Vehicle A (leading vehicle) and a Vehicle B (trailing vehicle). Between Vehicle A and Vehicle C and between Vehicle B and Vehicle C, un-mo... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6443070 | Floor for circulating between two vehicles The invention concerns a floor making it possible to circulate between two vehicles connected together by an articulated connection. The floor according to the invention includes a first deck fixed to the end of one of the vehicles and a second deck fixed... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6250231 | Connection between two vehicle parts of an articulated vehicle The subject matter of the invention is a connection between two vehicle parts of an articulated vehicle, more particularly of an articulated rail vehicle, whereas the two vehicle parts (1, 10) are pivotably connectable in the roof area of the vehicle part... | 06/26/2001 |
| 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 |
| 6170682 | Under-frame structure The car under-frame of the invention comprises a planar coupling member 2 projecting from a first car C toward a second car B, a bearing inner ring 3 positioned on the upper side of planar coupling member 2 and secured rigidly thereto, a bearing outer rin... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6138576 | Device for pivotal connection of neighboring car bodies of a rail vehicle, especially for commuter traffic In the device for pivotally connecting neighboring car bodies of a rail vehicle, especially for commuter traffic, each car body (1,2) is supported by a ball-and-socket joint (6) on a common swiveling railway truck (4). The swiveling railway truck (4) carr... | 10/31/2000 |
| 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 |
| 5884565 | Device for covering the track joint between the rotary plate of a swivel joint and the expansion or concertina bellows of an articulated vehicle A fixture for covering the track joint between the rotary plate of the swivel joint and the bellows or concertina walls of an articulated vehicle comprises a frame to hold the track joint covering bellows, the frame (7, 9) having a mouth (11) that can be ... | 03/23/1999 |
| 5690033 | Deformable gangway between two loading platforms carried by successive chassis, notably pertaining to railrods A deformable gangway (14), located between two successive loading platforms (15) and (16) for a road or a railroad chassis, is composed of a succession of transverse slats (25), such as metallic transverse slats, carried adjacent their ends (39) by two lo... | 11/25/1997 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5452912 | Articulated bus Articulated bus, in particular of the type with a low floor, whereby said bus has a pulling vehicle (1), a pulled vehicle (2) and an articulated mechanism which connects both vehicles to one another and which contains a rotary junction (3) with a lower pa... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5445236 | Vehicle In a vehicle combination, a traction vehicle which can be used independently of the combination, is rigidly connected with a trailer vehicle. The rear wheels of the traction vehicle can be lifted from the road when the combination is coupled, the wheels o... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5377597 | Rail vehicle having articulated connection between vehicle bodies for prohibiting telescoping in case of accidents Rail vehicle with at least two car bodies wherein at or near their connecting point a truck is provided which carries both car bodies, wherein furthermore an intermediate link is arranged between the car bodies, and one car body is rotatably mounted at th... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5052707 | Torque linkage bisector centring mechanism A centering mechanism for a tunnel of an articulated vehicle includes a pair of control members connected to opposite ends of a transversely extending arm. The members extend to transverse links that connect spaced portions of the adjacent vehicle bodies ... | 10/01/1991 |
| 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 |
| 4958977 | System for the transport of bulk commodities A material transport system having a material container for receiving material to be transported, motive members connected to the material container for allowing the material container to move from one place to another, and an unloader device positioned w... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4905607 | Deformable floor between adjacent rail or road vehicles A deformable floor in an interconnecting compartment between two adjacent rail or road vehicles is capable of allowing relative movement between the adjacent vehicles and is capable of accommodating for differences in relative angular positioning of and l... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4898399 | Trailer assembly and method A trailer assembly including a cab, a first trailer hitched to the cab, a second trailer having a dolly hitched to the first trailer, and a third trailer having a dolly hitched to the second trailer. Each dolly has a framework with a front hitch and has a... | 02/06/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4819565 | Tubular joint formed by two rolling membranes under low pressurization for intercommunication ring A tubular joint for connecting an intercommunication tunnel forming a passage compartment placed between two successive railroad on road vehicles or two successive members of access gangways to ships or to planes, said tubular joint being fitted on one ha... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4802417 | Gangway for a railway car passageway A gangway is provided between two railway cars or units of railway cars that are pivoted to one another, and that forms a continuous, stepless passage for all travel motions. The entire gangway is designed as a unit that is held in the central position to... | 02/07/1989 |
| 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 |
| 4781123 | Construction of articulating portion of articulated railway cars or the like A construction of an articulating portion for articulated railway cars or the like formed by coupling front and rear bodies pivotably connected one after another by a truck interposed therebetween. Inside a pair of front and rear side wall panels in the a... | 11/01/1988 |
| 4778193 | Articulated truck/trailer combination:the folding doors In a cargo-carrying vehicle having a power unit, a first cargo-carrying unit releasably affixed to the power unit, the first cargo-carrying unit not being pivotal on the power unit, and a second cargo-carrying unit releasably and pivotally connected to th... | 10/18/1988 |
| 4762191 | Articulated vehicle selectively driven at two axles from two power sources A vehicle, more especially in the form of an articulated omnibus, has a hybrid drive system comprising an IC engine and an electric motor, whose power is transmitted not only to an axle driven by the IC engine but in addition to a further drive axle in or... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4697526 | Articulation system for articulated depressed-floor tramway carriages The articulation system relates to articulated tramway carriages comprising at least two bodies, the opposing ends of which are connected together in an articulated manner in order to maintain substantial continuity of the walking surface, and are support... | 10/06/1987 |
| 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 |
| 4677918 | Railroad car with retractable closure track held down by bridge plate A railroad car for transporting vehicles such as automobiles and trucks has a pair of door assemblies which close each end of the railroad car. The lower end of the door assemblies are guided in a track and the track has vertically retractable sections lo... | 07/07/1987 |
