Patents Assigned to Pullman Incorporated
  • Powered railway car steering assembly
    Patent number: 4135456
    Abstract: A railway car includes a central steering axle transversely movable on the car body in response to track curvature. Actuating members connected to the transversely movable axle include longitudinally extensible and retractable elements which steer end axle assemblies about vertical pivot axes, the actuating members and associated elements including helical gearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1979
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Patrick G. Welsh
  • Sliding door for railway passenger car compartment
    Patent number: 4134233
    Abstract: A sliding door for a railway passenger car compartment includes structural panel support members of extruded material facilitating the assembly and replacement of parts and providing a construction which will support accessory portions of the door without the need of special fastening devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Jack E. Gutridge, Walter J. Marulic
  • Railway hopper car door lock
    Patent number: 4134344
    Abstract: A railway hopper car having doors movable downwardly and outwardly to a dump position is provided with an improved locking arrangement that includes a cam lever actuated by means of a push-pull link extending outwardly under the side of the hopper. The link is pivotally connected to a camming lever having a hinged latch element connected thereto. The latch element and camming lever are locked in a relatively angular position. The link arrangement upon actuation moves the cam lever and link to a substantially linear configuration thereby disengaging the latching element from the keeper member provided on the door structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert A. Spychalski
  • Cargo transportation device
    Patent number: 4131071
    Abstract: A cargo transporting device comprises a flat deck container having at opposite ends upwardly extending partial walls cooperating with hinged bulkheads which in an upright position provide continuous vertical walls at the ends of the platform. The hinged bulkheads are movable to stored positions on the deck of the device wherein the low height walls provide supports for stacking a plurality of the same type of container or device. The deck or platform of the containers are provided with a plurality of twist lock assemblies which are movable from operative positions locking containers on the platform to stored positions below the deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: John J. Glassmeyer
  • Center filler for railway cars
    Patent number: 4130068
    Abstract: A center filler arrangement for railway vehicles provides a large center filler bottom lug welded in position and having mounting recesses for front and rear center filler plates to interconnect the side webs of a center sill to provide a rigid, dimensionally stable, flat surface for attachment of a center plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1978
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Marvin Stark, Steve L. Suvada
  • Exchanger reactor
    Patent number: 4127389
    Abstract: An exchanger reactor including a shell assembly having a tube bundle assembly mounted in and separate from the shell assembly. Inlet and outlet means are provided to the tube bundle assembly which includes a tube inlet chamber, a tube outlet chamber, tubes extending between the tube inlet and outlet chambers and an expansion means positioned between the inlet means to the tube bundle assembly and the inlet chamber for providing relative movement between the shell assembly and the tube bundle assembly. The shell assembly includes a shell inlet chamber and a shell outlet chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1977
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Larry G. Hackemesser, Robert B. Petru
  • Method for removing entrained melt from a gaseous stream
    Patent number: 4120668
    Abstract: A process for removing entrained liquid and volatilized melt from a gaseous stream produced in molten salt processing wherein the gaseous stream is passed through fluidized, solid particulate material and entrained melt solidifies on the particulate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Lowell David Fraley
  • Trackside door closing arrangement for railway hopper cars
    Patent number: 4120412
    Abstract: A trackside door closing arrangement for closing the swinging doors of a railway hopper car includes a pair of pneumatic tires and wheels mounted on a pivot arm. The tires are interconnected for rotation in concert and during engagement with the doors, swing them inwardly to a closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Roy W. Miller, Ernest J. Nagy
  • Railway car counterbalanced tilting deck
    Patent number: 4119043
    Abstract: A railway car for transporting vehicles comprises a floor having a plurality of vertically spaced decks, one of said decks comprising a hinged deck section which may be raised above the floor of the car for facilitating loading. A counterbalancing mechanism is connected to the car structure and to the hinged deck and a locking device is provided for securing the hinged deck in both lowered or raised positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: David G. Naves, Herman A. Aquino, Mitchell L. Morgan
  • Pressure relief valve
    Patent number: 4119112
    Abstract: A safety vent for hopper cars includes a tubular housing member adapted to communicate with the interior of a hopper which may be unloaded by creating a sub-atmospheric pressure therein. The vent includes a rupturable diaphragm normally blocking the entrance of air through the tubular housing to the hopper. The diaphragm comprises a material which is stretched across a tubular wall of the tubular member in a tensioned condition, and which at a predetermined PSI within the hopper, ruptures whereupon the ruptured pieces of the diaphragm recede radially outwardly against the wall of the tubular housing in a manner to occupy a minimal amount of space thereby permitting the free flow of air into the hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1976
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Franklin P. Adler
  • Railway car counterbalanced tilting deck
    Patent number: 4119042
    Abstract: A vehicle carrying railway car comprises a plurality of vertically spaced decks, at least one of which consists of a rigid central section and at opposite ends hinged deck sections that are adapted to be raised for facilitating the loading of vehicles onto the car. The raised deck sections are counterbalanced by a biasing assembly and may be locked in raised or lowered positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: David G. Naves, Herman A. Aquino, Robert J. Mish
  • Adjustable thickness vent door assembly for cargo bodies
    Patent number: 4112621
    Abstract: A vent door and frame assembly for cargo bodies includes a pair of rectangularly shaped frame members one of which defines a door frame opening and supports in hinged relation a vent door. The frame members during assembly with a wall construction are positionable in telescoping relation wherein they overlap opposite sides of a cargo body and when in this position form a permanent frame structure connected to the sides of the body. By virtue of the telescoping relationship of the frame parts the frame assembly is adapted to be readily utilized with cargo bodies having walls of different thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Leonard M. Ehrhart, John R. Pratte, Paul E. Mazik, Jr.
  • Resilient constant contact center bearing assembly
    Patent number: 4112851
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a load equalizing and vibration damping center bearing assembly for a railway vehicle. The center bearing assembly includes a flat body center plate depending from the car body, a bowl having a downwardly concave curved inner surface supported on the wheel truck, a tiltable insert disposed in the bowl having a flat upper surface mating with the body center plate and a curved lower surface contiguous to the inner surface of the bowl, and a resilient liner interposed between the insert and the bowl which absorbs vehicle vibration and assures constant and uniform bearing support through said bearing assembly between the vehicle body and the associated wheel truck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 12, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: George L. Rousseau, Richard C. Snyder
  • Flame cutting machine for modification of railway car side sills
    Patent number: 4111404
    Abstract: A flame cutting machine for trimming side sill gussets comprises a trolley beam assembly mounted to roll longitudinally along the side sills of the car. A traveling beam is adjustable laterally on said trolley beam and includes side hanger frames on opposite ends thereof each of which supports a cutting torch arrangement including motor means for moving the cutting torch in a pre-determined pattern to trim portions of the side sill of a railway car.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: John M. Benko
  • Fold back landing gear leg
    Patent number: 4108472
    Abstract: A fold back landing gear in a trailer underframe including a pair of downwardly depending legs hinged to the underframe and selectively held in a vertical trailer supporting position and an essentially horizontal stowed position nestled within the trailer underframe by a longitudinally extending strut reciprocably carried within a clevis-like bracket depending from the trailer underframe and to which the strut may be affixed to secure the gear legs in their respective vertical and stowed positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Gary L. Weir
  • Method for quenching cracked gases
    Patent number: 4107226
    Abstract: A method for quenching cracked gases and recovery of heat therefrom by cooling the gases in heat exchange with steam to increase superheat level of the steam and subsequently recovering heat from the superheated steam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Bernard P. Ennis, Jr., James R. Styslinger
  • Passageway between adjacent railway passenger car compartments
    Patent number: 4100857
    Abstract: A railway passenger car includes a bedroom compartment having a commode enclosure comprising a pair of enclosure sections which during non-use are moved together into a confined and compact manner providing greater compartment space and during use can be moved apart to provide an enlarged commode area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 18, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Jack E. Gutridge, Walter J. Marulic
  • Lock for a hopper car outlet gate
    Patent number: 4099468
    Abstract: In a railway hopper car a sliding gate is provided at the discharge opening of the hopper for discharging materials therefrom. The gate comprises a frame supporting a sliding gate member movable from a closed position to an open position by means of a rack and pinion arrangement. The arrangement is actuated by an operating shaft which projects out from opposite ends of the gate and includes operating heads which are adapted to be engaged by a tool for rotating the shaft. A lock arrangement is provided for maintaining the sliding gate in a closed position and includes blocking elements which in the locked position of the gate are disposed over the operating heads to prevent the insertion of a tool unitl the locking mechanism is placed in an unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Franklin P. Adler
  • Plug sliding door
    Patent number: 4098022
    Abstract: A plug type of railway car door includes vertical edge beams of tubular construction connected by corrugated panel means. The beams are of a construction reacting with the door parts to effectively center the door within its opening and seal the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventor: Harold E. Hesch
  • Furnace with plenum arches
    Patent number: 4095935
    Abstract: An improved furnace design for carrying out the catalytic steam reforming of hydrocarbons, including an air delivery and burner system which extends across the top of the furnace. The air delivery system includes a plurality of air ducts each forming a plenum arch, with the arches being suspended between their respective ends as they span the top of the furnace. Burners, for providing heat to the radiant section of the furnace, are spaced within each of such arches and extend into the furnace. Further, the plenum arches provide a supporing structure for the insulation forming the top the radiant section of the furnace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1978
    Assignee: Pullman Incorporated
    Inventors: Denis A. Menegaz, Elmars Blumenaus, Richard Estile H. Ray