Thrall Car Manufacturing Company

United-american Car Co.

Other

Walter J Marulic

James C Robertson

Kenneth H Smith

William R Baker

Keith J Hallam

Kent N Johnson

The invention is of a gutter anti-clogging device for preventing a gutter affixed to a facia of a building from being clogged with debris. The gutter is mounted beneath an overhang of a roof and has a basically U-shaped cross section. An inner gutter leg extends upwardly, and longitudinally along, the facia. A gutter base extends generally horizontally outward from, and longitudinally along, the inboard gutter leg. An outer gutter leg extends upwardly from, and longitudinally along, the gutter. The gutter anti-clogging device includes mesh and retaining clips. The mesh, defines mesh orifices surrounded by longitudinal wire and transverse wire, and extends longitudinal along the gutter. The mesh has a L-shaped cross section with an integral inner mesh leg and an integral sloped mesh leg. The inner mesh leg is disposed adjacent the inner gutter leg and extends above an uppermost end of theouter gutter leg. The integral sloped mesh leg extending downwardly and outwardly from an upper end of the inner mesh leg to an upper end of the outer gutter leg. The retaining clips have a generally U-shaped cross section with an inner clip leg, a clip base and an outer clip leg. The inner clip leg is inserted downward through a mesh orifice. The clip base extends outward of the inner clip leg, and the outer clip leg extends downward from the clip base and the upper end of the outer gutter leg to frictionally secure the clip and mesh to the gutter.

Gutter anti-clogging device

A railroad single axle truck having a pair of wheels with one wheel at each end of the axle, the truck including a frame having a pair of longitudinal spaced apart parallel horizontal side tubes of substantially equal length, the frame also including a pair of transverse spaced apart parallel horizontal beams of substantially equal length positioned normal to and substantially planar to the longitudinal side tubes, the beams being spaced apart for a distance longer than the length of the tubes with the side tubes positioned between the beams, and the end of each side tube having a joining member telescoped thereto and fixedly joined to the side tube with the member having an outer end fixedly joined to the beam.

Single axle railroad truck with frame improvements

A railroad car for transporting vehicles comprising a first deck having side sills and being supported near each end by a railroad truck; a vertical side wall along each side of the car; each side wall including a plurality of spaced apart vertical columns having lower ends rigidly connected to each of the side sills; a second deck horizontally located above the first deck and rigidly connected to the columns; the second deck having a hinged section joined to each opposing end of a central portion, rigidly connected to the columns, to pivot about a horizontal axis; each hinged section being vertically pivotal and having an outer end with a lock attached to it to movably secure the outer end in upward and downward positions; each hinged section having side edges; a laterally movable, spring-biased rod along each hinged section side edge; the rod having a forward end extendable beyond the hinged section side edge into locking engagement with a retainer on the adjoining car wall; the rod forward end having outwardly sloping top and bottom flat surfaces; and the retainer having a sloped surface engageable with the rod top sloped surface, and the retainer having an upper sloped surface engageable with the rod bottom sloped surface. The spring progressively and continuously forces the rod farther and farther outwards when wear occurs between the retainer and rod surfaces, maintaining contact therebetween.

Vehicle transporting railroad car with hinged deck section lock

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 located where the vehicle tires roll so as to provide added load height when the car ends are open and vehicles are being loaded or unloaded. An embodiment with a pivotal, counterweighted Z-shaped member upon which the retractable track section is mounted is disclosed along with an embodiment utilizing a vertically displaceable tubular member and a coil spring.

Railroad car with retractable closure track held down by bridge plate

A dual lading railroad car which can carry solid, granular lading in hoppers at each end of the car and a liquid lading in a tank located in the center of the car between the hoppers. Only liquid lading can be carried in one direction and only solid, granular lading can be carried in a different or return direction, or both such ladings can be carried simultaneously in the same direction. Phosphate rock can be carried in the hoppers and molten sulfur in the tank. The exterior of the car looks substantially like a conventional covered hopper car since the tank is fully enclosed by the car walls and roof.

Liquid and solid dual lading railroad car

A railroad gondola car comprising a subframe assembly including a side sill channel member, a floor sheet, a side assembly including a side sheet and a plurality of side posts secured to the side sheet, the side posts comprising channel or hat shaped members opening toward the side sheet, a longitudinally extending angle member secured to the side sheet on the opposite side of the side sheet from the side posts and adjacent the lower edge of the side sheet, a structural reaction plate secured to the side posts within the channel or hat shaped cross section thereof and extending outwardly of the channel preferably a distance at least as great as the thickness of the side sheet, and being secured to the angle member, the side posts extending below the side sheet and being secured to the side sill channel member, and the angle member being secured to the subframe assembly or floor sheet.

Gondola car construction

A curved roof construction for a hopper type rail car wherein a plurality of roof support webs extend transversely between opposed car side walls at spaced intervals to each other. These webs provide support for a plurality of large roof panels which are disposed in generally end to end relationships and define the roof surface. The support webs have outwardly curved or bowed conformations between opposed ends thereof so that the roof panels will be similarly bowed. The roof panels are installed so as to define an elongated roof hatch opening generally centrally between and longitudinally of the car side walls. A roof coaming is associated with the roof panels in an adjacent surrounding relationship with the hatch opening. Elongated side plates fixedly secured to the car side walls adjacent to the top edges thereof provide mounting surfaces for the outer side edges of associated ones of the roof panels. The roof support webs include a pair of carline web assemblies disposed adjacent the car end walls slightly inboard of opposed hatch opening ends. In a partitioned type of hopper car, partition webs associated with partition panels which divide the car interior into a plurality of separate compartments comprise other of the support webs. In the case of a partitionless hopper car, additional carline webs are used for other of the support webs.

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Dunwoody, GA, United States of America

Walter J Marulic