B - Operations – Transporting – 61 – D
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
61
D
105/172
B61D 5/00 (2006.01) B61D 5/02 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1038233
ABSTRACT A railway train including a plurality of interconnect- ed tank cars, each car comprising a tank provided with two lad- ing conduits in the top thereof extending thereinto for com- munication with the interior thereof and each having an outer end extending above the tank and toward the adjacent end there- of, the lading conduits of adjacent cars being interconnected by flexible connecting conduits; valve assemblies may be con- nected in each lading conduit inside or outside the tank and are preferably all pneumatically operable from a single location, with external valves being disposed in protective housings; one lading conduit may terminate near the bottom of the tank for filling and/or eduction unloading thereof with the other lading conduit terminating near the top of the tank for venting and filling of an adjacent tank thereof and for automatically deter- mining the outage of the tank. Additional embodiments provide lading ports at the ends of the tank on the longitudinal axis thereof or a conduit mounted above the tank and extending the length thereof and valved to accommodate series or parallel loading of the tank cars.
210320
Hurst Doug
Mowatt-Larssen Erling
LandOfFree
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