B - Operations – Transporting – 61 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
61
D
302/28, 105/123.
B61D 7/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1149230
ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A bottom unit for a material transportation car hopper includes a membrane which preferably is foraminous. The membrane is oriented at an angle with respect to horizontal and slopes toward a hopper discharge pipe. The bottom unit is separate from the discharge pipe. The bottom unit includes a vibrator for vibrating the membrane, and an air injection system for defining a film of air moving up through and across the membrane for sweeping material from the membrane and into the hopper material discharge system.
384057
American Railcar Industries
Osler Hoskin & Harcourt Llp
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