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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7381023 | Conveyer system for rail-car unloading apparatus and method A method and apparatus for providing a conveyer system configured to move material dumped from a rail-car positioned over fixed rails of a railroad track. The conveyer system includes a frame structure, at least one first conveyer belt system and at least one second... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7351026 | Rail-car unloading apparatus and method A rail-car unloading apparatus and method for the same configured to be positioned over fixed rails of a railroad track. The rail-car unloading apparatus includes a frame structure and two parallel rails. The frame structure includes two outer main beams extending s... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7178464 | Rail car door closer A track mounted system for closing rail car doors that enables the simultaneous closing of multiple car doors. After hopper car contents such as aggregate or coal are unloaded, the doors are closed in pairs by semi-automated door closing arms that are positioned on ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 5678975 | Waste container throw-in system for buildings A waste container throw-in system of a building, comprises a container holder for holding a waste container therein, a handcart for carrying the container holder thereon, a vertical conveyor tube vertically provided in the building, a waste throw-in appar... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5116183 | Apparatus for unloading freight from an open freight car An unloading apparatus comprises a supporting frame, a railroad disposed on the bottom of the supporting frame for an open freight car with freight, a pair of belting members hung on the upper portion of the supporting frame, and a moving member including... | 05/26/1992 |
| 5000358 | Low profile pneumatic outlet A low profile pneumatic outlet for a covered hopper railway car is disclosed which allows the bottom slope sheets of the hopper car to be moved downwardly closer to the rail thereby increasing the cubic capacity of the car while maintaining the car within... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4762458 | Bottom discharge hopper A bottom discharge hopper includes an elongated rectangular discharge opening closable by two discharge doors hinged along their outer edges to the hopper so that the doors are biased to an open position. Each door includes control means comprising a bias... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4740130 | Hopper A bottom discharge hopper the body of which is elevated at a tip by ramps so that doors on the underside of the body, which are secured thereto by links and which are pivotally fixed to upstanding structure on the chassis, open outwardly and downwardly to... | 04/26/1988 |
| 4492528 | Pressure balanced liquid elevating mechanism A liquid elevating mechanism for use with pumps of the type which produce cyclic pressure waves for transmission through a liquid column to the liquid elevating mechanism for operation thereof. The liquid elevating mechanism is especially configured to ut... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4492509 | Object-conveying box, and object-sorting machine equipped with such boxes A box formed by a set of walls closed by a pivoting bottom which is openable so that the object which it carries falls vertically in the ejection zone to be collected in a receptacle. The walls are extended below the bottom so that the pivoting operation ... | 01/08/1985 |
| 4244299 | Railway side door hopper car locking mechanism A locking arrangement for the side dump doors of a hopper car includes a pair of actuating levers projecting downward from the car engaging suitable trips mounted adjacent to the tracks which provides for longitudinal movement of a pair of latch bars whic... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4232989 | Cam actuated railway hopper car door operating mechanism A door operating mechanism for a bottom dump railway hopper car including a plurality of longitudinally mounted, divergently opening discharge doors held in the closed position by a plurality of longitudinally spaced claw-like latches. Each pair of transv... | 11/11/1980 |
| 4212333 | Quick fill/empty tank car system An automatic bottom load and unload railway tank car includes a tank body having a quick fill and unload lading valve in the tank bottom. A vent valve is also located in the tank bottom and a vent conduit extends from the vent valve up to the top of the t... | 07/15/1980 |
| 4207020 | Hopper car door latching arrangment An open top railway hopper car is provided with longitudinal center dump discharge openings closed by hinged clam shell type of doors. The doors include an arm and linkage arrangement pivoted to the hopper car structure for continually urging the doors to... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4046268 | Hopper door actuating mechanism A bottom dump hopper car having outwardly swinging clamshell doors includes a locking mechanism for maintaining a door in closed position by means of a stop and bracket arrangement. A vertically moveable arm is actuated to disengage the locking mechanism ... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4022336 | Apparatus for conveying bulk material This invention relates to apparatus for conveying bulk materials, such as minerals, down a vertical or steeply inclined path of descent. An endless conveyor carries the material downwards by gravity, and at the same time drives an energy transformation un... | 05/10/1977 |
