129results about "Hopper cars" patented technology

A covered hopper railcar includes a pair of spaced trucks; a three bay covered hopper railcar body on the pair of trucks; and a partition structure separating each bay from an adjacent bay, wherein each partition structure is extending vertically from sloped floor sheets to a roof structure and extending horizontally between side walls of the railcar body, wherein each partition includes a pair of horizontal ribs.

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.

A hopper bottom door unit mounted to a hopper body (200) of a hopper (1000), the hopper body (200) of the hopper (1000) being provided with a discharge opening. The hopper bottom door unit (100) comprises: a bottom door mechanism (110), which is mounted to the hopper body (200) and has a shielding position in which the discharge opening is shielded and an open position in which the discharge opening is exposed; a door closing drive assembly (120), which is mounted to the hopper body (200) and connected to the bottom door mechanism (110), and is configured to drive the bottom door mechanism (110) to move to enable the bottom door mechanism (110) to be located at the shielding position; and a door opening drive assembly (130), which is mounted to the hopper body (200) and connected to the bottom door mechanism (110), and is configured to drive the bottom door mechanism (110) to move to enable the bottom door mechanism (110) to be located at the open position.

The utility model discloses a hopper car bottom door unit type opening and closing mechanism, and belongs to the field of railway hopper cars. The opening and closing mechanism comprises an air cylinder, a connecting rod, two fixed supports, two driving crutches, two driving rods, two flexible connecting bases and a pin shaft. One end of the connecting rod is connected with the air cylinder, the lower portions of the left end and the right end of the connecting rod are connected with the driving crutches respectively, the two driving crutches are connected to a middle beam of the hopper car through fixing supports respectively, and the other ends of the driving crutches are connected with the driving rod through flexible connecting bases. Structures at the lower parts of the left and right ends of the connecting rod are symmetrically arranged; the bottom ends of the two driving rods are located at the two ends of the bottom door respectively and connected with the bottom door through bottom door supports. The opening and closing mechanism provided by the utility model can realize the function of independently controlling the opening and closing of the bottom door; the structure is simple, manufacturing cost is low and maintenance is convenient.

A system, method and assembly for detecting the operational status of one or more discharge gates on one or more railcars. The system and method monitor parameters that include whether the discharge gate is open or closed, whether the railcar is in motion or not, and whether the railcar is in a location where it is acceptable for the discharge gate to be open. Sensors carry out the monitoring, and the information obtained by monitoring the parameters are used to determine if a notification event has taken place and if so, a notification of such event can be transmitted to a remote receiver. A change in the status of any one of the monitored parameters can trigger the determination of whether a notification event has occurred.

According to the coal hopper car connecting rod protection device and the lower connecting rod, a pipe body is connected to a threaded section of the lower connecting rod in a threaded mode, the two ends of the pipe body are provided with an outer end face and an outer clamping ring respectively, a limiting sleeve comprises two half sleeve bodies, and one end of the limiting sleeve is provided with an inner ring groove matched with the outer clamping ring; the locking mechanism is used for limiting separation of the two half sleeve bodies, the pipe body of the connecting rod protection device of the coal hopper car is in threaded connection with the threaded section of the lower connecting rod, one end of the limiting sleeve is connected with the tank body, and the other end of the limiting sleeve is connected with the lower connecting rod through the limiting groove. And the root of the threaded section is wrapped in the limiting sleeve, so that the axial limiting effect of the limiting sleeve on the lower connecting rod transmission pipe body is achieved, after the root of the threaded section is broken, the threaded section can still be prevented from being separated from the lower connecting rod through the limiting sleeve, the lower connecting rod continues to play a role, and a layer of insurance is provided for the lower connecting rod.

The utility model discloses an air track pneumatic tire coal transport vehicle and an air track transport system. The transport vehicle comprises a bogie and a vehicle body. The bogie is connected with the vehicle body through a central suspension device; the vehicle body runs on the aerial track through the bogie; the bogie comprises a framework, a plurality of wheel assemblies, a motor driving device, a foundation braking device and a gear box, each wheel assembly comprises two tires, and the two tires are inflatable tires and are rotatably installed on the two sides of the framework in the width direction respectively; the motor driving devices are arranged at the two ends of the framework, the gear boxes are connected with the framework, the gear boxes are arranged between the corresponding motor driving devices and the corresponding wheel assemblies, and the motor driving devices transmit torque to the gear boxes through couplings so as to drive the wheel assemblies to walk. According to the aerial track pneumatic tire coal transport vehicle, the vibration of the vehicle and the aerial track beam is relatively small, the gradeability of the vehicle is strong, and the maintenance is more convenient.

The invention discloses a reinforcing ring assembling process, a hopper car end wall supporting piece and an assembling device and method. The technical problem that in the prior art, the assembling precision of a reinforcing ring is low is solved. According to the reinforcing ring assembling technology, firstly, the base material is bent and formed, a reinforcing ring blank is obtained, the two butt-joint ends of the reinforcing ring blank are arranged in an overlapped mode but not connected, and welding deformation can be conveniently released in the subsequent welding step. And then the reinforcing ring blank is placed in the inner hole of the supporting plate, and one arc section of the reinforcing ring blank abuts against the hole wall of the inner hole and is fixed through spot welding. The welding position of the reinforcing ring blank and the supporting plate is arranged on the arc section, the reinforcing ring blank can abut against the hole wall of the inner hole through the elastic restoring force of the arc section of the reinforcing ring blank, and pseudo soldering is avoided. And the operation is repeated, and other arc segments are fixed in sequence. And finally, the process allowance of the butt joint end of the reinforcing ring blank is cut off, connector butt joint and spot welding are conducted, and assembling of the reinforcing ring is completed.

The application discloses a two-stage locking mechanism of a railway hopper car bottom door and relates to the technical field of railway hopper cars.The two-stage locking mechanism comprises a handle assembly, a first pull rod assembly, a lever fulcrum assembly, a second pull rod assembly, a rotating shaft assembly, a pull spring seat, a pull spring, a third pull rod assembly and a locking lever assembly; the handle assembly is fixed on both sides of a chassis; the lever fulcrum assembly is fixed below a vehicle; the two ends of the first pull rod assembly are movably connected with the handle assembly and the lever fulcrum assembly through pin shafts; the second pull rod assembly is movably connected with the rotating shaft assembly through a pin shaft; the pull spring seat is fixed in the middle of the chassis; one end of the pull spring is sleeved in the pull spring seat, and the other end of the pull spring is connected with the rotating shaft assembly; and the third pull rod assembly is movably connected with the rotating shaft assembly and the locking lever assembly through pin shafts. The two-stage locking mechanism is manually opened and closed, ground facilities need not be separately arranged, and manufacturing cost is reduced.

A secondary locking mechanism for a bottom door of a railway hopper car, which relates to the technical field of railway hopper cars. The secondary locking mechanism comprises a handle assembly (1), a first pull rod assembly (2), a lever fulcrum assembly (3), a second pull rod assembly (4), a rotating shaft assembly (5), a tension spring seat (6), a tension spring (7), a third pull rod assembly (8), and a locking lever assembly (9), wherein the handle assembly (1) is fixed on two sides of an underframe; the lever fulcrum assembly (3) is fixed below the car; two ends of the first pull rod assembly (2) are respectively movably connected to the handle assembly (1) and the lever fulcrum assembly (3) by means of pin shafts; the second pull rod assembly (4) is movably connected to the rotating shaft assembly (5) by means of a pin shaft; the tension spring seat (6) is fixed in the middle of the underframe; the tension spring (7) is sleeved inside the tension spring seat (6) at one end and is connected to the rotating shaft assembly (5) at the other end; and the third pull rod assembly (8) is movably connected to both the rotating shaft assembly (5) and the locking lever assembly (9) by means of pin shafts. The device uses the manually operated secondary locking mechanism, without the need for separately providing ground facilities, thereby reducing manufacturing costs.

The present invention discloses a device for preventing the bottom door of a hopper car from opening unexpectedly and a hopper car, which relate to the field of railway freight cars, comprising: a touch plate, the middle part of which is hinged on a vehicle end partition; a connecting rod, one end of which is hinged to one end of the touch plate, a spring seat being provided on the vehicle end partition, the spring seat being connected to the connecting rod and applying an elastic force to the connecting rod along a first direction; a lock hook assembly being hinged to the other end of the connecting rod, the lock hook assembly comprising a torsion spring, which can cause the lock hook assembly to rotate toward the bottom door; when the connecting rod moves in the first direction, the lock hook assembly can move away from the bottom door; the device for preventing the bottom door from opening unexpectedly is provided with a rotatable touch plate and a lock hook assembly, and during operation, at a different time from the opening and closing of the bottom door, the lock hook assembly locks the bottom door after the bottom door is closed into place, and when the bottom door is opened, the lock hook assembly opens in advance and does not affect the opening of the bottom door, and the locking and opening effects are achieved by the action force of the spring seat and the torsion spring without the need for additional operation.

The invention discloses a central ridge assembly for a grain hopper wagon, which relates to the technical field of railway wagons and comprises a ridge unit with an inverted V-shaped longitudinal section, a composite partition plate assembly arranged in the ridge unit and used for increasing the strength of the ridge unit, and two longitudinal connecting beams arranged at two ends in the ridge unit, the ridge unit comprises a central ridge plate which is located in the center and transversely arranged and two side ridge plates which are transversely and symmetrically arranged on the two sides of the central ridge plate. The longitudinal section of the central ridge plate is in an inverted V shape, the inclination angles of the two inclined faces of the central ridge plate are larger than the repose angle of loaded and transported grains, the two side ridge plates are transversely arranged on the lower surfaces of the corresponding inclined faces, the two side ridge plates are inclined, and the inclination angle of each side ridge plate is the same as the inclination angle of the inclined face connected with the central ridge plate. The section of the central ridge plate is inverted-V-shaped, and the inclination angle of the inclined plane is larger than the repose angle of loaded and transported grains, so that the grains are ensured to be completely unloaded.

The utility model discloses a low-noise bottom-dump mine car which comprises a car box, the car box is installed on a chassis, a bottom door is hinged to the chassis at the position corresponding to an opening in the bottom of the car box, the opening in the bottom of the car box is opened or closed when the bottom door rotates around a rotating shaft of the bottom door, and opening and closing folded plates are arranged on the periphery of the bottom of the car box. Buffer strips are arranged on the other three sides, except the hinged side of the bottom door, of the bottom of the opening and closing folded plate, at least two sets of wheel assemblies are arranged at the bottom of the bottom door, an unloading wheel assembly is arranged at the end, away from a hinged shaft, of the bottom of the bottom door and comprises two unloading wheel mounting bases, and the tops of the unloading wheel mounting bases are connected with the bottom of the bottom door. Unloading wheel axle mounting openings are formed in the bottoms of the unloading wheel mounting seats, unloading wheel axles are mounted in the unloading wheel axle mounting openings, wheel axle grooves are formed in one sides of the unloading wheel axles, clamping plates are clamped on the wheel axle grooves, and the two ends of the clamping plates are connected with the unloading wheel mounting seats at the two ends of the unloading wheel axle mounting openings respectively; the technical problem that in the prior art, a bottom-dump mine car generates large noise is solved.

The utility model discloses an underpinning type air track transport vehicle and transport system, the underpinning type air track transport vehicle is connected below a bogie assembly of an air track and comprises a frame assembly and two underpinning assemblies, the frame assembly comprises a middle beam and two sleeper beams oppositely connected to the middle beam, and the two underpinning assemblies are connected to the two sleeper beams. The two sleeper beams are connected with the two bogie assemblies correspondingly and located below the bogie assemblies. The two bottom supporting assemblies are oppositely connected with the two sleeper beams, located below the sleeper beams and used for abutting against the bottom of the material box. Wherein a discharging opening is formed in the bottom of the material box. The bottom supporting assembly abuts against the bottom of the material box, the material box can move along with the bottom supporting type aerial rail transport vehicle, and the problem that an existing funnel type material box cannot be connected to the aerial rail transport vehicle in a suspended mode is solved.

The utility model discloses an adjustable ballast sliding structure of a stone ballast vehicle. The adjustable ballast sliding structure comprises a ballast sliding plate, an extension plate, an adjusting bolt, a hook and a supporting rod. According to the scheme, the ballast sliding plate is fixed to the vehicle body of the stone ballast vehicle and synchronously moves along with the vehicle body of the stone ballast vehicle, the exposed length of the adjusting bolt between the extension plate and the ballast sliding plate is changed by rotating the adjusting bolt, and then the angle of the extension plate relative to the ballast sliding plate is changed; the filler falling from the top end of the ballast sliding plate falls to the position matched with the actual working condition requirement under the guiding action of the deflected extension plate, and the extension plate can stably keep the current angle under the action of pressure energy of the continuously falling filler and supporting force of the adjusting bolt; when the operation does not need to be carried out, the hook is rotated to the posture of extending out of the extension plate and hung on the supporting rod, and then the extension plate can be fixed.

The invention relates to a railway wagon end wall structure, a preparation method and a railway wagon, and relates to the technical field of end wall structures, the railway wagon end wall structure comprises an end wall plate, the end wall plate is corrugated, wave crests and wave troughs are evenly distributed on the end wall plate in the transverse direction at intervals, and each wave crest and each wave trough can play a role in independent supporting; the baffle assembly is connected with one longitudinal end of the end wall plate; one end of the supporting assembly is connected with the back face of the end wall plate, and the supporting assembly is used for supporting the end wall plate and keeping the end wall plate at an inclined angle. The end wall structure of a plate-column combined structure in the prior art is changed into the end wall structure in which the corrugated end wall plate, the baffle assembly and the supporting assembly are matched, the number of parts is reduced, the assembling difficulty of the whole end wall structure is reduced, meanwhile, the self weight of the end wall structure is reduced, and the manufacturing difficulty is simplified.

The utility model discloses a high-temperature-resistant split type alloy baking transport trolley which is characterized by comprising a trolley body, and the trolley body comprises a frame, a bottom plate and wheels. A hopper is arranged above the bottom plate, and a discharging opening is formed in the position, corresponding to an opening in the lower portion of the hopper, below the bottom plate. A driving unit is arranged in front of the bottom plate, and a discharging unit is arranged behind the bottom plate. The hopper is in bolt fit with the vehicle body, and a heat insulation pad is arranged between the hopper and the vehicle body. According to the scheme, the problems that a hopper of a traditional transport vehicle cannot be replaced, thermal deformation is serious, and discharging precision is low are solved, and the service life of a product is greatly prolonged.

Systems for continuous granulated metallic unit (GMU) production, and associated devices and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a continuous GMU production system includes a furnace unit, a desulfurization unit, a plurality of granulator units, and a cooling system. The furnace unit can receive input materials such as iron ore and output molten metal. The desulfurization unit can reduce a sulfur content of the molten metallics received from the furnace unit. Each of the plurality of granulator units can include a tundish that can control the flow of molten metallics and a reactor that can granulate the molten metallics to form GMUs. The cooling system can provide cooled water to the reactor. Continuous GMU production systems configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can produce GMUs under continuous operations cycles for, e.g., at least 6 hours.

The invention discloses a large-flux hopper assembly for a grain hopper car, which relates to the technical field of railway wagons and comprises an end hopper plate assembly, a side hopper plate assembly, a central ridge assembly, a longitudinal extension plate assembly and an air cylinder mounting seat assembly. The end funnel plate assembly comprises two end funnel plates which are symmetrically arranged between the two side funnel plates and are transversely arranged, the side funnel plate assembly comprises two side funnel plates which are symmetrically arranged between the two lower side beams and are longitudinally arranged, and the two end funnel plates and the two side funnel plates form a rectangular outlet; the longitudinal extension plate assembly is arranged in the middle between the two side funnel plates in the longitudinal direction, the central ridge assembly and the longitudinal extension plate assembly are arranged in a cross orthogonal mode, and the rectangular outlet is divided into four funnel openings of the same size. The hopper assembly is provided with the four hopper openings which are arranged in the shape like the Chinese character'tian ', the hopper openings are large in area, unloading flux is large, and the requirement for complete unloading of goods within a short time is met.

A vented end cap for an outlet gate comprises a generally cylindrical body, a disc-shaped end wall with at least one flow aperture; a vent hood on the exterior of the end wall defines an air flow passage having an inlet opening and communicates with the flow aperture; a filter support housing on the interior surface of the end wall, defines an air flow chamber having an exit opening communicating with the flow aperture, and with the interior of the vented end cap. A filter media is supported on filter support housing between the flow aperture and the exit opening. A railroad car outlet gate includes one of the vented end caps at each end of a discharge tube with outlet openings at each end. A method includes removal of one vented end cap and applying a vacuum to the uncovered discharge opening. In one form, a filter clean seal is disposed at each outlet opening.

This invention provides a hook-type wedge key anti-loosening mechanism for railway hopper cars and a railway hopper car, relating to the field of railway vehicle technology. It is used for anti-loosening connection of a hook-type wedge key between a drive shaft and a crank, comprising: a first threaded hole provided on one end face of the drive shaft near the hook-type wedge key; a lever with a through hole in the middle of its side, wherein when the center line of the through hole coincides with the center line of the first threaded hole, the lower part of the lever can fit against the exposed end of the hook-type wedge key; and a first bolt, one end of which can pass through the through hole and be threadedly connected to the first threaded hole. This mechanism has a simple structure, requiring only the operation of the first bolt on the lever during assembly and disassembly. It involves fewer assembly and disassembly steps, is highly efficient, and economical. It solves the problems of numerous steps, low efficiency, and high manufacturing and repair costs associated with existing railway hopper car technologies using stop welding and disassembly, thereby improving traffic safety.

The utility model discloses a ballast unloading mechanism for a ballast hopper car, which comprises a hopper car body, a hopper, discharge ports, door plates, an electric cylinder, a shifting mechanism, a guide plate and a collecting tank, the discharge ports are arranged on the front side and the rear side of the hopper, the liftable door plates are arranged at the discharge ports and are driven by the electric cylinder, and an inclined plane and a longitudinal collecting tank are arranged at the bottom in the hopper. A material stirring mechanism is arranged in the collecting tank and comprises a driving part and spiral blade rods installed on the two sides of the driving part, the driving part adopts a double-head motor to drive the two spiral blade rods to convey ballast to the two discharging openings correspondingly, and centralized guiding, active conveying and orderly discharging of the ballast are achieved through cooperation of all the structures; and the ballast unloading efficiency and the laying uniformity are effectively improved.

The application discloses a kind of adjacent car operating room safety passing device and railway ballast hopper car, and the adjacent car operating room safety passing device includes: plate body, two vertical plates are respectively arranged at both ends of one side of plate body, one end of vertical plate is exposed to plate body, the upper end of one end of vertical plate is rotatably connected with end beam, limiting rod is arranged at the lower end of one end of vertical plate, for supporting plate body to keep horizontal state, the adjacent car operating room safety passing device is set up to be connected with adjacent car section by reversible plate body, when ballast hopper car is fixed-pointed to unload ballast, adjacent car is unloaded directly through safety passing device and enters adjacent car operating room, that is, it reduces labor intensity, and also avoids the risk of personnel knock, fall due to no safety passing device to and fro getting on and off car;Meanwhile, when train is unloaded while walking, since getting on and off car operation is strictly prohibited, unloading personnel can smoothly pass through safety passing device to and fro the operating room of adjacent two cars to carry out normal ballast unloading operation.

A launcher for a zipline trolley system comprises a body, first and second arms, first and second connectors, first and second pads, and an actuating portion. The first and second arms extend from the body. The first and second connectors are pivotably connected to the first and second arms, respectively. The first and second pads are connected to the first and second connectors, respectively. The actuating portion comprises a sliding member and first and second pull arms. The first and second pull arms are connected to the first and second connectors, respectively. When the launcher is in a first configuration, the first and second pads are adapted to hold the trolley in place. Movement of the sliding member away from the body causes pivotable movement of the first and second connectors and a transition of the launcher to a second configuration to release the trolley.

The invention relates to a storage cart (1) for bulk material (6), said storage cart comprising: a cart frame (2) that travels on rail bogies (3); a loading container (5) which has a floor conveyor belt (8) extending in the longitudinal direction (7) of the cart and which has lateral walls (16); and a transfer conveyor belt (21), that is connected to the floor conveyor belt (8) and protrudes beyond a front cart frame end (24), for forwarding the stored bulk material (6) in a conveying direction (9) to an upstream cart. A front portion (12) of the floor conveyor belt (8) is bent upwards with respect to the conveying direction (9) and protrudes beyond a lower end (20) of the transfer conveyor belt (21) so that a rear portion (11) of the floor conveyor belt (8) is positioned lower than the lower end (20) of the transfer conveyor belt (21). The low position of the rear portion (11) of the floor conveyor belt (8) allows the loading container (5) together with the lateral walls (16) to be positioned low so as to enable simple loading from the side using an excavator.

Treating cooling water in industrial production facilities and associated systems, devices, and methods are disclosed herein. The system can comprise a cooling tower with a first and second cell, each having a housing to receive return water and a sump below to maintain supply water configured to directly contact molten metal. The system includes an inlet and an inlet line to provide return water to the cooling tower and an outlet and an outlet line to direct supply water back to the industrial production facility. The inlet, outlet, and cooling tower form a closed-loop network. Additionally, a blowdown line is fluidically coupled to the outlet to divert a portion of the supply water away from the closed-loop network.

A dump car, comprising: a container mounted to or formed on a chassis, the container having a front wall proximate a front of the dump car and a rear wall proximate a rear of the dump car; a pair of longitudinal top gates mounted between the front and rear walls of the container and forming a roof of the container; a pair of longitudinal side gates mounted between the front and rear walls of the container and forming respective side walls of the container; and, a longitudinal two-sided chute mounted between the front and rear walls of the container and forming a floor of the container, the longitudinal two-sided chute being A-frame shaped having first and second panels sloped downwards toward respective sides of the dump car.