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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7322785 | Car dumper dust collection method and apparatus A method and apparatus for controlling dust generated by the rotary dumping of rail cars may include one or more flexible baffles provided to the back-side of a rotary dump frame to seal a portion of the material receiving pit during a portion of the rotary motion. ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7309205 | Vehicle loading and unloading method A trailer unloading system anchors one or more trailers to a deck, with, or without tractor attached. The sides of the trailers are free to pivot from a top, longitudinal, pivot axis once unlatched from the edge of the trailer floor. The deck tilts the trailers side... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7114909 | Trailer-tilting, load-discharge apparatus and method A trailer unloading system anchors one or more trailers to a deck, with, or without tractor attached. The sides of the trailers are free to pivot from a top, longitudinal, pivot axis once unlatched from the edge of the trailer floor. The deck tilts the trailers side... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7083375 | System and method for transporting and handling bulk quantities of bulk feed A system and method for handling and transporting moist bulk grain by-products include a rail car having an aluminum car body carried by a plurality of trucks for engaging rails. A flexible top cover, supported by a plurality of breakaway curved ribs, is positioned ... | 08/01/2006 |
| 6960054 | Car dumper dust collection method and apparatus A method and apparatus for controlling dust generated by the rotary dumping or rail cars may include one or more flexible baffles are provided to the back-side of a rotary dump frame to seal a portion of the material receiving pit during a portion of the rotary moti... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6932182 | Traveling car A traveling carriage equipped with a traveling means to travel on and along a surface of an object. A frame of the traveling carriage is composed of two divided frames to the right and to the left in the forward traveling direction, one frame having an arc-shaped sl... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6668730 | Indexer carriage chain tension and dog control system A reversing chain-operated, dual carriage train indexer is provided with a chain tension control that acts directly on the chain and a retraction-biased, two-position carriage connection cylinder in conjunction with a spring biased linkage system allows i... | 12/30/2003 |
| 5735217 | Rail-type conveyor system The rail-type conveyor system contains self propelling container trucks which circulate between stations and are provided with unlockable unloading device. Each of the stations is termed with at least one stopping point and have a receiving device for acc... | 04/07/1998 |
| 5651660 | Dumper installations To permit coupled rail cars of different lengths be tipped in a rail car dumper installation, between a rail car platform of the tipping structure and a fixed track section leading to the platform there is a space occupied by a supplementary rail section ... | 07/29/1997 |
| 5567105 | Automated transfer car for transporting material A transfer car for transporting a container of tobacco from a first location to a second location includes an outer frame and an inner frame rotatable within the outer frame. The interior frame is adapted to hold a container therein and is provided with a... | 10/22/1996 |
| 4609321 | Rotary car dumper with dust collection system The dust collection units in a rotary railroad car dumper installation are mounted over the hopper pit along one or both sides of the cylindrical, rotatable dumper frame so that dust ladened air can be sucked directly into the dust collection units withou... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4505631 | Method and apparatus for dumping containers The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for dumping the contents of a container. A container dumping apparatus according to the present invention includes a frame and a carrier positioned on the frame for movement relative to the frame. Th... | 03/19/1985 |
| 4487547 | Method for random car train positioning A car positioning device for dumping of random cars in a rotary car dumper, and a method for directly positioning cars within a rotary dumper, where the car positioning device, movable on a trackway parallel to a track portion carrying railroad cars, has ... | 12/11/1984 |
| 4479749 | Rotary car dumper installation with integral dust collection The dust collection units in a rotary railroad car dumper installation are mounted over the hopper pit along each side of the cylindrical, rotatable dumper frame so that dust ladened air can be sucked directly into the dust collection units without the ne... | 10/30/1984 |
| 4354792 | Train positioner There is disclosed a train positioner for sequentially advancing a string of railroad cars to a rotary car dumper in a step-by-step and a car-by-car sequence. Each of the cars has rotatable couplings permitting the rotation of each car about a longitudina... | 10/19/1982 |
| 4043467 | Rotary car dumper with shiftable frame A railroad car dumper, suitable for dumping cars of a unit train, is disclosed. The dumper has a frame and a carriage, with tracks on the carriage to receive a car from adjacent tracks. The frame has a sidewall to support a car on the tracks during dumpin... | 08/23/1977 |
