USRE19831E - Drop side container car - Google Patents

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USRE19831E
USRE19831E US19831DE USRE19831E US RE19831 E USRE19831 E US RE19831E US 19831D E US19831D E US 19831DE US RE19831 E USRE19831 E US RE19831E
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  • the freight thus loaded into a car is transported to destination where it is taken out, placed in the freight house and later on picked up again and taken to the doorway for delivery to the consignees truck. Often, the freight is transferred en route, and intermediate unloading and rehandling being necessary.
  • the container may be used in two ways; first, for transportation from one shipper to one consignee, this in cases when one shipper alone has enough tonnage to Warrant using a container; second, use of containers by consolidators who substitute themselves for individual shipper or consignee, and by gathering up large number of small shipments, produce a container load very near the maximum, and act as distributors at destination.
  • the advantages to the shipper are; saving in total transportation costs, saving in cost of heavy wooden cases, as packing cases are unnecessary when shipments are made in containers; saving in tare; saving incident to practical elimination of theft, damage or other source of loss; saving resulting in faster, better and more eflicient service; and the advantages to the railroad are development and extension of service, having reference particularly to comparatively short haul traflic, saving of freight house labor at both origin and destination, saving of way bill expense; getting greater revenue per car mile incident to heavier loading; saving in equipment; saving from elimination of claims for pilferage and loss; saving resulting from decrease in detention of equipment at terminals; relief of freight house facilities.
  • the object of my invention is to make the container car operation as nearly perfect as possible by dividing the car transversely with partitions thus forming container stalls or compartments and having shelves beside these partitions extending transversely of the car to support containers with or without legs, so as to make it possible to run a lift truck onto the car under the container, lift the container from the supporting shelves and remove it to a station platform, truck body or other support.
  • legs on a container may be run under the container from any one of four positions and place the container more satisfactorily, making it a much more flexible operation, than if the lift truck could go in from one or two positions and to accommodate the legs of the container
  • I provide the supporting shelves with elongated slots or ways extending lengthwise of the shelf, so that the four legs of the container engaged with the slot will act as safety devices to prevent side sway and decrease to a minimum any possibility of the container slipping off the car.
  • a further object is to provide doors for the ends of the compartment which when in raised position constitute the car side wall; and with these and other objects in view, my invention consists of the parts and combination of parts hereinafter pointed out.
  • Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved car loaded with containers and a lifting truck.
  • Figure 2 is a side elevation of Figure 1.
  • Figure 3 is an enlarged side elevation of one end portion of the car.
  • Figure 4 is a vertical sectional view on the line 4-4 of Figure 3.
  • Figure 5 is a view similar to Figure 4 with the drop side door open and functioning as a gang plank.
  • Figure 6 is an enlarged detail view looking at the end of the supporting shelf, which is shown in elevation at the left and in section at the right, the car partition being in section.
  • Figure 7 is an enlarged detail top plan of the empty car.
  • Figure 8 is an enlarged through the car partition
  • Figure 9 is a vertical section through car and container, showing the cooperation of the supporting shelf and a lock for the container door, this view being at right angles to Figure 8, and showing the drop side door open.
  • Figure 10 is a detail top plan of the partition and a portion of the car.
  • Figure 11 is an end elevation of the shelf support adapted for container legs, the shelf being secured to the car floor and partition.
  • Figure 12 is a perspective view of a portion of a car loaded with containers, and a lift truck on the car under a container in the act of depositing or removing a container from the car.
  • Figure 13 is a view similar to Figure 12 show- .ing the lift truck leaving the car after having deposited the container on the supporting shelves, the drop door functioning as a gang plank.
  • These containers are provided with a door or doors l9 of approved type and construction, provided with approved locking bolts 20, 2
  • a container supporting shelf 29 which is preferably hollow or box like and is further secured to the car structure as at 30 as it is preferable that the weight imposed on the shelf be carried by the underframe, although not necessarily.
  • which when in the operative position showing in Figures 4, 6, hold the container from slipping endwise oil the supporting shelf 29.
  • This dog is provided with an arm 32 to which is loosely secured the operating link 33.
  • a link latch housing 34 is secured to the end of the support 29 and is provided with a. recess 35 to receive the link 33.
  • an inclined slide way 36 provided on which a latch 31 is slidably mounted and provided with an operating handle 38 which moves in the elongated slot 39 in the housing.
  • the latch 31 has been moved to lock the link 33 in that position and also lock the lug- 3
  • the latch 31 is moved to the left whereupon the link 33 is free to swing or be moved outward and rotate the retaining lug 3
  • are positioned at each end of the compartment I5 and are secured to the car by means of the hinges 42 of any ap- 5 proved type.
  • An extension 43 is hinged at 44 to the top edge of the doors 4
  • Some containers have four legs and in order to make my car universal to containers with and without legs I construct the shelf or container support 49 ( Figures 10 and 11) with a slot or passage 50 through which the legs 5
  • mixed consignments can 65 be handled from point of origin to numerous destinations ona container basis, rather than box car basis; that is to say, load in one container car six or seven containers, with consignments to separate points so that the container car, when (0 ready to run, would have each container for a different destination, loaded with 5,000 up to 10,- 000 lbs. This would mean that the car would stop at the first destination at which a container is to be removed, and, if there was an empty or u loaded container available. it would be loaded on the car.
  • a freight container car having drop sides and transverse bulkheads intermediate its ends, hooks securedto the bulkheads and adapted to engage and support said sides in their elevated positions, and means holding said hook in its operative position.
  • a freight container car having drop sides, and transverse bulkheads intermediate its ends, hooks secured to the bulkheads and adapted to engage and support said sides in their elevated position, and a safety latch pivoted to the bulkhead and adapted to engage and lock the hook in its operative position.
  • a container car having transverse bulkheads intermediate its ends dividing the car into compartments, container supports arranged adjacent the bulkheads and adapted to support a container on the car with its bottom above the floor of the car, and container guides secured to the bulkheads above the said supports.
  • a container car transverse bulkheads secured on the car intermediate its ends, a container support on two opposite sides of each compartment adapted to support a container with its bottom above the floor of the car, and means on the end of each support to hold the container against transverse movement relative to the car, means to lock said ,means in its operative position.
  • a container car transverse bulkheads secured to said car intermediate its ends dividing the car into compartments adapted to receive containers, a container support on opposite sides of said compartment adapted to support a container on a car, means on each of said supports to hold the container against shifting transversely of the car, and guides to guide the containers in position on each side of the bulkheads.
  • a container car bulkheads arranged transversely of the car intermediate its ends and dividing the car into compartments, container supports positioned at opposite sides in each compartment, a stop pivotally secured to each end of the container support, means to move said stop into operative position, and latch to lock said means against movement to hold the stop in its operative position.
  • a container car container supports arranged in pairs transversely of said car, movable stops secured to each end of each support and adapted to be moved in a position above the horizontal plane of the support to hold a container on said supports against shifting transversely of the car, and means to lock said stop in its operative position.
  • a container car container supports arranged in pairs on said car and extending transversely thereof, and a slot extending from end to end in said supports adapted to receive the legs of containers placed on said supports.
  • a container car having drop sides and transverse bulkheads intermediate its ends, fastening members carried by the bulkheads and adapted to engage and support said sides in their elevated positions, and means for holding said members in operative position.
  • a container car having drop sides and traverse bulkheads intermediate its ends, fastening members carried by the bulkheads and adapted to engage and support said sides in theirelevated position, means for holding said members in operative position, and means to engage and hold the container against lateral shifting movement.
  • a container car having drop sides, transverse bulkheads secured on the car and forming compartments intermediate its ends, a container support on two opposite sides of each compartment adapted to support a container with its bottom above the floor of the car, means at the end of each support to hold the container against transverse movements relative to the car, and means at the ends of each bulkhead to engage and support the drop sides in elevated position.
  • a container car In combination, a container car, bulkheads arranged transversely of the car intermediate its ends and dividing the car into compartments, container supports positioned at opposite sides in each compartment, a stop pivotally secured to each end of the container support, and a latch to hold the stop in its operative position.
  • a container car container supports arranged in pairs transversely of said car, and movable stops secured to each end of each support and adapted to be moved from a position below to a position above the horizontal plane of the supports to hold a container on said supports against shifting transversely of the car.
  • a container carrier having container receiving compartments, each provided with a floor, oi. paralleling attachments at the sides of the respective compartments aii'ording elevated and longitudinal movement preventing support for a container to hold the container spaced above the floor so as to admit of the insertion of a liit truck thereunder and so as to hold the container against movement longitudinally of the car, vertically movable gravity influenced members mounted at the ends of the attachments effective to prevent lateral shifting of the containers, and means to retain said members in engaging position during support of the container.
  • each compartment effective to support the container elevated above the bottom of the compartment to provide a lift truck receiving space between the same and the bottom of the compartment and also operative to. hold the container from longitudinal movement on the car, a vertically movable door at a side 01' the car in line with each compartment, and vertically movable devices independent 01' the door arranged at the ends of the attachments adapted to be disposed in gravity retractible operative and inoperative positions respectively,

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