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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 1992
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1990
Eugene R Tylisz, Michigan City, IN (US);
Phillip G Przybylinski, Schererville, IN (US);
Trinity Industries, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A railway well car for carrying containers of selected alternative lengths has a center crossbearer having a support for supporting the inner corners of two tandem containers, the support having side connections of sandwich construction with a flanged portion of a side sill, the sandwich construction being formed of inner and outer 'L' shaped brackets disposed above and inside and below and outside a side sill of the car, respectively, and being fixed to the sill at respective upper and lower horizontal portions, the crossbearer being a tube formed of a lower channel closed by a top plate and the plate being at the level of the inner bracket, and the crossbearer extending from one side wall to a bracket on the opposite wall, and the inner bracket being wider than the outer bracket for improving distribution of loads to the side sills and the side walls.