Patents Represented by Attorney Richard J. Myers

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  • Side bearing assembly
    Patent number: 4226188
    Abstract: A shear resistant roll restraining means for arresting lateral rolling motion of a railway car including a side bearing upstanding from the truck bolster, a bearing plate structure vertically aligned and abuttably engageable with the side bearing depending from the upwardly and outwardly sloping bottom web of the car body bolster, and a bearing plate coupling having a longitudinal axis extending substantially coaxial with the direction of oscillatory impact loads of the side bearing on the bearing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Richard C. Snyder
  • Railway hopper car closure actuating mechanism
    Patent number: 4224877
    Abstract: An apparatus for pivoting and locking a door on the bottom of a rail hopper car includes a locking mechanism for locking the door when closed and a lever mechanism for pivoting the door between closed and open positions. The locking mechanism and lever mechanism are separate but are operated by a single sliding operating linkage on the bottom of the car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Marvin Stark, Ronald G. Schultz, Robert A. Spychalski
  • Static switching apparatus for passenger vehicle
    Patent number: 4224875
    Abstract: A static switching apparatus for a track vehicle includes a main line track and a switch track which at a switching junction both include a conventional track rail and a specially constructed rail. A switching cam including cam faces is positioned at the junction and includes straight and curved cam surfaces which are selectively engaged by cam followers supported on the vehicle to provide for steering of the vehicle. The cam followers are lowered and raised vertically by fluid extensible devices which also move them in an orbital path into cam surface engagement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Willis H. Knippel, Thomas R. Schmitz
  • Hopper car door locking mechanism
    Patent number: 4224878
    Abstract: The locking mechanism comprises a clevis arrangement on a hopper door which is engaged by a jaw positioned centrally on a hopper structure. A locking bar is provided which extends to the outer edge of the hopper structure and is connected to rotate with a locking plate which is manually actuated. A safety pawl is provided to prevent inadvertent rotation of the locking plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Dennis B. Marsden
  • Railway car nailable floor
    Patent number: 4224880
    Abstract: A nailable floor panel structure including a plurality of generally inverted-channel shaped parallel floor planks with depending flanges disposedly downwardly in generally abutting relation, and generally linear end caps affixed and rigidly interconnecting the respective ends of the panel planks. Each end cap includes longitudinally spaced, laterally offset portions corresponding to the floor plank junctures, and cut-out portions at the ends of the cap conforming in shape to the depending flanges of the channel-shaped floor planks. The design provides enhanced structural integrity of the finished floor panel and facilitates modular fabrication of the finished panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: J. W. Hogue, B. Dean Horner, Dudley Foster
  • Railway hopper car closure actuating mechanism
    Patent number: 4222333
    Abstract: A discharge gate arrangement for railroad hopper cars having longitudinally extending discharge openings arranged in a horizontal plane beneath the hopper. Gate members arranged in pairs swing in opposite directions transversely of the car. Each gate member is pivotally hung and attached to an operating mechanism that includes a transversely extending shaft having two oppositely threaded portions. The operating mechanism includes split nuts located on the threaded shaft portions with attached links connected to the gate members in order that rotation of the shaft in one direction moves the split nuts in opposite directions and causes the cooperating gates to open and close simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: James J. Schuller
  • Side sill assembly
    Patent number: 4222336
    Abstract: A side sill and side wall joint arrangement for a railway box car wherein channel shaped side sills are provided having inwardly offset upper vertical webs such that the side sheets of the car may be secured to them to provide a flat outer surface between the respective sheets and the lower portions of the sills against which straight side posts may be secured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: George L. Rousseau, Richard C. Snyder
  • Hopper discharge door operating mechanism
    Patent number: 4222334
    Abstract: An operating mechanism for sequentially opening and closing hopper discharge door is provided. Longitudinally extending gates are arranged in pairs and are suspended from the hopper by hinge links at one end and by an operator arm located near the center of each gate. A hopper-mounted rotating link is attached to one operator arm and a hopper-mounted bell crank is attached to the other operator arm; both the rotating link and the bell crank are interconnected to sequentially operate the doors. A power cylinder and linkage are connected with the bell crank for automatically opening and closing the doors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: William H. Peterson
  • Combination door and emergency stairway exit
    Patent number: 4216725
    Abstract: A combination end door and emergency stairway unit operates as a conventional rapid transit door to allow movement between cars. The unit also includes an auxiliary door inner frame pivotally mounting a staircase that may be rotated and lowered to the ground to allow passengers to alight from the vehicle. A locking, linkage mechanism securely interconnects the auxiliary door, the inner frame, and the movable staircase to form the vehicle end door unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Keith J. Hallam
  • Plug door actuating mechanism
    Patent number: 4215515
    Abstract: An operating rod assembly for use with a sliding plug door of a railway freight car. The operating rod extends vertically and it is connected with a manually actuated mechanism. Both the upper and lower ends of the operating rod are connected with adapter rods of each door crank member which move the plug door into and from the door opening. At both the upper and lower ends of the operating rod there is a telescoping connection between the operating rod and the associated crank. The telescoping connection is secured by a fastener which interconnects the operating rod to each crank attached adapter rod. When the door is in the locked position the fastener is in a captured position adjacent the door to prevent disassembly or accidental separation of the rod members during transit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Harold E. Hesch, Harold A. Wold, Leonard F. LeMaire
  • Resilient railway body center plate
    Patent number: 4213400
    Abstract: A load distributing and vibration damping center bearing assembly for a railway car including a body center plate assembly including a base plate secured to the body bolster, a flat truck bowl bearing plate, and an elastomeric disc sandwiched therebetween and bonded between the brass plate and bearing plate to abate and dissipate destructive radial and vertical impact loading on the truck bowl and center plate during rail operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard C. Synder, Roger D. Sims, George L. Rousseau
  • Impact resistant bumper for vehicles
    Patent number: 4211444
    Abstract: A light weight motor vehicle bumper including a box beam with stress reducing plates affixed within the beam at the central portions of the inner and outer walls of the beam. The stress plates each include a central portion of relatively constant cross-section and end portions of decreasing cross-section which effectively channel and distribute impact loads throughout the beam structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: John J. Glassmeyer
  • Hopper car door latching arrangment
    Patent number: 4207020
    Abstract: An open top railway hopper car is provided with longitudinal center dump discharge openings closed by hinged clam shell type of doors. The doors include an arm and linkage arrangement pivoted to the hopper car structure for continually urging the doors to a closed position. The arm and linkage arrangement is opened by means of side of track cams. Locking for each of the doors is provided by means of a locking pawl engaging stops provided on door brackets which preclude opening of the doors during transport. Opening actuation of the arm and linkage arrangement provides for initial displacement of the locking pawls thereby permitting the doors to continue to their open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: James J. Schuller
  • Railway car center plate filler arrangement
    Patent number: 4206710
    Abstract: A modular center filler and center plate may be constructed as a unit away from the car and adapted for connection to the center sill webs of a railway vehicle. The center filler has a thick bottom plate which extends beneath the center sill and has pairs of interconnected longitudinal and transverse sill reinforcing plates arranged in a double I-beam manner. The center plate has longitudinally extending attached skirts, and bevels are provided which allow the car to rock at the bevel lines. Forces transmitted through the center plate at the bevels are absorbed and distributed by the associated longitudinal plates and other bolster and center filler structural elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1978
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: John H. Spence
  • Dead lever anchoring means for railway car brake rigging
    Patent number: 4194595
    Abstract: An arrangement for a foundation brake rigging on a railway car includes a dead brake lever anchoring arrangement which comprises a bracket supported in openings extending through the walls of the wheel truck bolster. The bracket includes hook-shaped elements which support a generally horizontal connector rod disposed below the bolster. One end of the connector rod is provided with a hinged linkage arrangement, which includes an eye portion which engages and supports a hook-shaped lower end portion of the dead brake lever.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Donald B. Yates
  • Railway car center sill
    Patent number: 4194451
    Abstract: A reinforcing structure for a railway car having a fishbelly type underframe including a center sill having tapered transition sections connected between the center section of the sill and each end section. At each transition section a pair of longitudinally extending horizontal plates are provided which are contiguous and affixed to the respective vertical webs of the sill and extend from the center section through the transition section and into the end section, thereby directing structurally deleterious fatiguing loads away from the bent portions of the sill at the junctures of the transition section and the center and end sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: James L. Dehner
  • Railway hopper car door operating mechanism
    Patent number: 4194450
    Abstract: A door operating mechanism for a bottom dump hopper car including a plurality of transversely mounted bottom discharge gates arranged in oppositely opening pairs and operatively connected by compression struts to pendulously mounted vertical levers. The levers are movable divergently outward by linkages connecting them to a lever mounted on a longitudinally extending rotatable actuating shaft. The invention further provides that in the locked position the vertical levers and compression struts be in an overcenter position relative to each pair of associated discharge gates, thereby assuring positive locking of the mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Roy W. Miller
  • Sealing arrangement for chimneys with an annular pressurized space
    Patent number: 4191099
    Abstract: A chimney having concentric tubular walls defining an annular pressurized space includes a sealing arrangement having a flexible boot with one edge connected to one of the walls. The top hood or cover supported on the inner wall of the chimney includes a lower annular surface which extends over the outer wall. Spring biased support members supported on the outer walls are connected to an annular seal ring to which a second flexible edge of the boot is connected and supports the same in sealing relation against the lower annular surface of the hood to seal the annular space and accomodate relative movement of the walls resulting from natural elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Victor H. Strahl
  • Articulated railway car
    Patent number: 4191107
    Abstract: An articulated railway car includes end to end body units with adjacent ends supported on a wheeled truck and interconnected in articulated relation. Side bearing arrangements disposed on opposite sides of the articulated connection include relatively interengaging and telescoping bearing elements designed to prevent torsional twisting movement of the body units about a longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1978
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Ray L. Ferris, Walter J. Marulic
  • Railroad car with depressed floor
    Patent number: RE30388
    Abstract: A high cubic capacity railroad boxcar that is provided with a longitudinally extending depressed nailable steel floor section disposed on each side of a longitudinally extending center sill structure, the top surface of the floor sections being at the same elevation as the surface of a plate over the center sill structure, the outside lateral margins of each floor section having a removable inverted filler channel member positioned in a longitudinal runner recess adjacent a car angle member and side sill. Each filler channel member may be replaced with a bulkhead floor track in the form of a slotted runner member or a rack gear member and cooperate with a similar overhead track for receiving, locating and restraining removable bulkheads later added to the car by a lading shipper as may be required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 2, 1980
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: William D. Mundinger, Richard C. Snyder