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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
May. 03, 2022
Jac Operations, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Michael H. Kress, Armagh, PA (US);
Gregory P. Josephson, Salix, PA (US);
Ethan Ryan Terrel, Danville, AL (US);
JAC Operations, Inc., Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
A railcar modification comprises a pair of spaced trucks; a multiple bay hopper railcar body on the pair of trucks; a hopper floor in the railcar body, wherein each bay of the hopper railcar body has hoppers formed of sloped floor sheets having a hopper floor slope; a plurality of gate adaptors, each gate adapter coupled to the floor sheets of a hopper, wherein the gate adapter includes a plurality of floor sheet panels, a plurality of transition panels and a plurality of gate panels, and wherein a difference in slope angles between the floor sheet panels, transition panels and gate panels combine to form a vertical offset; and a plurality of gates, each gate coupled to one gate adapter.