Abstract: A flexible liner system for a silo receiving and storing granular materials, in which the flexible liner system includes a first flexible inflate liner and a second flexible inflate liner placed in the silo and aligned respectively against a silo wall and a silo floor. The first inflate liner and the second inflate liner are separated from each other by a central trough that extends completely across or substantially completely across the silo floor. The flexible liner system includes a conveyor assembly that inflates each inflate liner to push the granular material toward the central trough and aerates the granular material stored in the silo. The flexible liner system further includes a liner return system that allows each inflate liner to be brought back against the wall and the floor of the silo during deflation.

Abstract: The freight car has an undercarriage and a running carriage connected to the undercarriage. A container is connected to the undercarriage. The container has side walls, positioned in the longitudinal direction of the freight car, and closed end walls extending transversely to the side walls at opposite ends of the freight car. The side walls have lateral posts and longitudinal supports connecting the end walls and the laterals posts. At least one of the side walls has a closable opening for loading and unloading goods to be transported in the freight car. The at least one opening extends over the entire length of the side wall. The at least one side wall has at least one pair of folding doors arranged in a common vertical plane for closing the opening in a closed position of the folding doors. Each one of the folding doors of the pair has a horizontal pivot axis.

Abstract: A gravity unloading method for cargo box having split bottom plates. A pair of rectangular split bottom plates abut at one of the long sides of the bottom plates and pivoted near the other of the long sides thereof on the bottom of the cargo box. Force is applied by power devices beneath the bottom plate, causing the split bottom plates to turn pivotally and become inclined. A side plate is disposed vertically at the edge of each of the long sides of the bottom plate. The ends of the side plates adjacent the bottom plate can be pivotally turned open through the free ends turning up by a linkage such that the articles located on the split bottom plates can completely slide out by their own weight from both sides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new type of trailer for trucks used in the construction industry. The invention discloses a combination bottom dump and end dump trailer in a single unit. The trailer generally comprises a cargo area, a bottom dump hatch in the cargo area, a tailgate door and lifting rams to lift the front of the trailer up to allow cargo to be dumped out the tailgate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a new type of trailer for trucks used in the construction industry. The invention discloses a combination bottom dump and tail dump trailer in a single unit and a method to build such a unit. The trailer generally comprises a cargo area, a bottom dump hatch in the cargo area, a tailgate door and lifting rams to lift the front of the trailer up to allow cargo to be dumped out the tailgate.

Abstract: A single-spot quench car is disclosed which has an articulating bottom and back wall arrangement. The articulation of the bottom and back walls serve to increase the volume of the car and to facilitate dumping of coke from the car after quenching.

Abstract: A side dumping vehicle having pivotally interconnected bottom walls and side walls which may be displaced between a trough shaped configuration in cross section and an inverted "V" configuration in cross section. In changing the configuration from that of a trough to that of an inverted "V", a load carried by the vehicle is dumped on both sides thereof.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improvement for a tilting, sliding edge dispenser having pivot members fixedly attached to opposite ends of the dispenser and a rigid support structure having elongated receptacles for receiving the pivot members in rotating sliding engagement. Each one of a pair of elongated driving loops is attached adjacent one end, respectively, of a linear edge of the dispenser and is stretched over a pair of wheels attached to each end of a base member and driven by a motor attached to a shaft connecting one wheel of each pair of wheels whereby the linear edge is driven across the surface of the base members to dispense the contents of the dispenser.