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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 1977
Filed:
Oct. 06, 1975
Applicant:
Inventors:
Edward E Cheek, Brunswick, OH (US);
Kuljit S Tuli, Highland Heights, OH (US);
Assignee:
The McDowell-Wellman Engineering Company, Cleveland, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
214-2 ; 177132 ; 177145 ; 214 / ;
Abstract
A railroad car dumping apparatus is disclosed which has a weighing device for weighing the contents of the car prior to dumping. The apparatus includes an invertible cradle and a weighing table fixed to the cradle and being invertible therewith. A platen is mounted on the table and is laterally shiftable along the table. The weighing device includes load cells fixed to the cradle and bearing against the table so that the load cells are compressively engaged by the table when the cradle is in its upright position and are under zero tension when the cradle is inverted.