Railroad Car with Reinforced End Doors

摘要

A railroad freight car adapted for carrying automobiles and having a pair of doors enclosing and end of the car body. The pair of doors is hinged to the sides of the car body and meets each other at a central vertical plane, with each door including latches at top and bottom that engage an end sill and a roof the car body. The doors include panels of composite construction and have stiffening structures along vertically extending closure mating sides of the doors, whose margins confront each other. Door engagement members on each door extend toward and are engaged with the stiffening structures on the margin of the opposite one of the pair of doors.

主权项

1. A door for an end of a railroad freight car, comprising:
(a) a vertically-extending hinge side; (b) an oppositely located vertically-extending closure mating side; (c) a top end; (d) a bottom end, the door having a height between the top end and the bottom end; (e) a first door securing mechanism located at the top end; (f) a second door securing mechanism located at the bottom end; (g) a door stiffening structure mounted on the door closure mating side of the door and including:
(i) an outer reinforcing plate extending along a margin of the closure mating side on an exterior face of the door;(ii) an inner reinforcing member extending along a margin of the closure mating side on an interior face of the door; and (h) a door engagement member carried on the inner reinforcing member at an intermediate height between the top end and the bottom end and extending laterally beyond the margin of the closure mating side, in a direction away from the hinge side of the door.