B - Operations – Transporting – 60 – F
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
60
F
104/33.11
B60F 1/00 (2006.01) B60F 1/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1179198
CONVERTIBLE RAIL-HIGHWAY VEHICLE SUPPORT SYSTEM ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A convertible rail-highway vehicle having a semi-trailer with a truck provided adjacent the rear of the trailer with connecting structure for pivotally connecting the truck to a central beam for movement about a vertical axis. The truck has at least a pair of spaced and parallel axles for carrying at opposite ends thereof a pair of flanged wheels and a pair of highway wheels. The axes of rotation of the highway wheels are radially offset from the axes of rotation of flanged wheels. The axles are each rotatably supported in a pair of elongated and parallel bars which are, in turn, pivotally supported from a laterally extending support member on the railway truck. A releasable connection is provided adjacent the front end of the trailer for facilitating a selective connection to a highway tractor and to a further truck. A drive mechanism is provided on the rear truck and is operatively connected to each of the axles for effecting a rotary drive of the axles and a movement of the wheels and highway wheels on each of the axles to an exchanged relation relative to the ground.
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Kirby Eades Gale Baker
Rail-Or-Trail Corp.
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