Patents Represented by Attorney Richard J. Myers

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  • Side wall for railway hopper car
    Patent number: 4252067
    Abstract: A side wall arrangement for an open top hopper or railway gondola car having a metal plate construction and including top chord or sill members spanning the outside top edges of the walls. The top chord members are of a lightweight unitary formed plate construction providing axial and lateral rigidification for the wall so as to resist lateral warping or deflection thereof during rotary dumping operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1981
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Marvin Stark
  • Dual hopper car doors
    Patent number: 4250814
    Abstract: A rapid dump hopper car includes a pair of relatively lightweight doors which are opened and closed sequentially from an overlapping position by means of a longitudinally extending actuating mechanism movably supported on the underframe of the car. The doors include longitudinally spaced and transversely extending hinge bracket structures which are connected to the center sill and side sill of the car for relative hinging movements. The bracket structures also include overlapping portions and interengageable bars securely supporting the adjacent edges of the door in interlocking relation. Each hinged bracket structure also includes a ball and socket connection with actuating links which are connected to the longitudinal operating mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: February 17, 1981
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Marvin Stark, Steve L. Suvada, Herman A. Aquino
  • Partitioned railway hopper car
    Patent number: 4246849
    Abstract: An open top railway hopper car is provided with a car body having the usual end slope sheets and lower side discharge openings. Transverse bulkheads spaced above the end slope sheets to provide the car with a rectangular center compartment particularly adapted to have elongated cargo such as logs and also provide an opening for end compartments which are filled and discharged when the car is used to haul cargo such as wood chips and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1981
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Harold E. Gramse
  • Cambered hatch cover seal arrangement
    Patent number: 4245565
    Abstract: A trough hatch cover for a covered railway hopper car including an easily replaceable longitudinally convergently tapered elastomeric seal reactive therewith to form a weather-tight seal about the periphery of the hatch when secured by clamps at opposite ends of the hatch cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Marvin Stark, Clement J. Kniola
  • Chute for charging vessels
    Patent number: 4245824
    Abstract: A water cooled material additive chute for introducing fluxing material into a steel furnace includes water cooled inlet and outlet chambers meeting at a tip or nose portion which includes deflectors adapted to increase the cooling efficiency of the water coolant and includes a pipe structure which accommodates thermal expansion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1981
    Assignee: Pullman Berry
    Inventor: Nicholas M. Rymarchyk
  • Railway side door hopper car locking mechanism
    Patent number: 4244299
    Abstract: A locking arrangement for the side dump doors of a hopper car includes a pair of actuating levers projecting downward from the car engaging suitable trips mounted adjacent to the tracks which provides for longitudinal movement of a pair of latch bars which disengage a plurality of latches longitudinally disposed on the car between the hopper slope sheets and the swinging doors. Safety locks are provided to provide inadvertent opening of the latch mechanisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: William H. Peterson
  • Partition wall joint
    Patent number: 4241552
    Abstract: A partition wall joint for joining three converging partition walls in a passenger vehicle. The joint includes a vertical anchor post generally hat-shaped in horizontal cross-section and a removable anchor plate generally coextensive and cooperative with the post so as to define three outwardly opening vertical channels wherein the respective partition walls may be secured as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Walter J. Marulic
  • Modular storage arrangement for a passenger vehicle
    Patent number: 4240356
    Abstract: A storage arrangement for a passenger compartment in a railway passenger vehicle including a vertical panel extending between and removably secured to the ceiling and floor of the vehicle and having a cabinet shell secured thereto to provide an easily assembled and maintained baggage containment or storage arrangement within the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Ernest J. Nagy
  • Method and apparatus for distribution of granular material in a railway hopper car
    Patent number: 4239424
    Abstract: A method and device for evenly distributing granular material such as plastic pellets into a railway hopper car to reduce the valley angle, eliminate void spaces, and increase the volume of material in each hopper. A cone-shaped deflector is placed in line with each hatch opening at a point below the roof line. The deflector directs material horizontally away from the hatch opening to reduce and virtually eliminate the valley angle for most granular materials. The cone is hung from support struts which may be suspended from an angular mounting ring which is mounted atop the hatch coaming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: John D. Pavolka
  • Method of monitoring conversion of iron ore into high content pellets
    Patent number: 4238225
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for monitoring selected samples in situ in an iron ore converter the stages of reduction of the ore into iron sponge pellets having a desired iron content. The apparatus comprises a series of induction coils encircling the converter. The coils are coupled to an R F Circuit which is coupled to a meter which indicates the inductance values correlated with the iron content of the measured sample and its temperature thus providing indicia of the stage of conversion of the ore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Larry A. Coccia
  • Railway car for transporting vehicles
    Patent number: 4238168
    Abstract: A railway car for transporting vehicles comprising a plurality of vertically spaced decks, one of which consists of a rigid central section and at opposite ends hinged deck sections that are adapted to be selectively raised for facilitating the loading of vehicles onto the railway car, and an improved counterbalancing and locking mechanism interconnecting the hinged deck sections and the car structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: David G. Naves
  • Door locking and actuating mechanism for hopper car
    Patent number: 4236458
    Abstract: A locking and actuating mechanism for a pair of horizontally movable hopper doors includes an arm and actuating linkage which engages a track side cam for moving the doors between open and closed positions. One of the doors includes a keeper which is engageable by a latch mechanism in the other door. The latch mechanism includes a linkage arrangement which is connected to the actuating link and arm by means of a lost motion connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Eugene I. Varda
  • Door locking mechanism for side dump railway hopper cars
    Patent number: 4235169
    Abstract: An open top hopper car particularly adapted to transport logs and pulpwood products includes a car body having a central partition separating the car into a pair of hoppers which are open at their lower ends for discharging materials sideways and downwardly through the supporting track into a pit area. The car is provided with a door locking mechanism including a longitudinally extending actuating member which by means of flexible linkages rotates bellcranks supported on a hopper out of locking engagement with keeper members provided at the lower ends of a pair of swinging doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: William H. Peterson
  • Fuel delivery system for a furnace or kiln
    Patent number: 4234106
    Abstract: A series of operatively interconnected fuel flow regulators are adapted to meter and direct the flow of particulate fuel from a fuel conveying system into the burners of a furnace or kiln. Each regulator is fed by a conveying system and includes a feeder housing having a flow metering impeller and feed rotor arrangement. Each housing includes an adjustable fuel orifice communicating with a respective burner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Donald E. Rywak, James L. Griffith, Frederick D. Rhodes, Otto Kovalsics
  • Field repair roof panel for a railway car
    Patent number: 4233795
    Abstract: A replacement roof panel for repairing damaged railway car roofs in the field. The damaged portion is cut away leaving an opening in the roof. The repair panel is fabricated to the desired width and has reinforcing end portions that form laterally extending stiffening members. The end portions are shaped to provide slots along the lateral edges of the repair panel for receiving the edges of the existing roof sheet. The repair sheet is then welded along its edges to the existing roof sheet and to the side plates of the car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard C. Snyder, Donald C. Bodinger
  • Car coupling arrangement for railway passenger cars
    Patent number: 4232793
    Abstract: A coupler arrangement for rapid transit passenger cars includes a self-centering coupler shank having limited horizontal and vertical swinging movement about a spherical bearing structure. The arrangement includes first and second shock absorbing mechanisms sequentially effective. A pin type coupler includes a locking arrangement on the coupler structure engageable with the coupler pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1979
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Keith J. Hallam, Dennis B. Marsden
  • Cam actuated railway hopper car door operating mechanism
    Patent number: 4232989
    Abstract: A door operating mechanism for a bottom dump railway hopper car including a plurality of longitudinally mounted, divergently opening discharge doors held in the closed position by a plurality of longitudinally spaced claw-like latches. Each pair of transversely opposite latches includes operating rods connecting each latch to a bell-crank positioned beneath the longitudinal hood of the car. The bell-cranks are operatively connected to a longitudinally disposed tension rod, which includes linkages at either end for actuation of the mechanism by trackside mounted cams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Roy W. Miller
  • Lance for removing skulls from steelmaking vessels
    Patent number: 4230274
    Abstract: Skulls which form within the upper nose section of steelmaking vessels are removed by means of a centrally located top blowing lance designed to blow at high velocity oxygen or other gases. The lance includes laterally extending ports communicating with a central relatively wide gas chamber and the gas is directed generally laterally outwardly against the inner wall of the nose section to retard or remove the skulls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Berry Company
    Inventors: Nicholas M. Rymarchyk, Leo L. Meinert
  • Telescoping drawbar for tandem tractor trailers
    Patent number: 4230335
    Abstract: A telescoping drawbar is provided to insure a variable length connection between a pulled trailer and a tandem connected trailer supported on a portable dolly. The telescoping drawbar includes a number of telescoped tube segments which are aligned and secured with interlocking wedges, plates and mating stops located on the surfaces of overlapping telescoping sections. The wedge-shaped plates and associated stops securely interlock the telescoping sections and accurately align locking openings for insertion of locking bolts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: John J. Glassmeyer
  • Upper berth support arrangement
    Patent number: 4227465
    Abstract: An upper berth is hingedly supported on the partition wall of a sleeping compartment. One end of the berth is provided with a vertical hanger member having an upper hook shape end which is adapted to engage a bracket mounted on the outer wall of the sleeping compartment. The hook and bracket arrangement provides a supple support for the berth in the use position and may easily be moved to a stowed position. The shelf arrangement supported by the bracket is positioned immediately adjacent the sleeping berth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Jack E. Gutridge, Walter J. Marulic