B - Operations – Transporting – 61 – K
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
61
K
B61K 5/00 (2006.01) B61D 15/00 (2006.01) B61D 47/00 (2006.01) B61K 5/04 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2058755
2058755 9014978 PCTABS00002 A novel ramp system is provided for use to assemble and disassemble trains of intermodal trailers supported on removable intermodal railtrucks. The ramp system has an ascending portion (64) for raising the level of the trailer frame onto an elevated portion of the ramp, locating means to align the respective coupling members (58) of a railtruck (30) and intermodal trailer in proper relationship for coupling, and a descending portion (68) for transferring the load from the highway wheel assembly of the trailer to the railtruck or vice versa. The descending portion of the ramp can include a wheel stop to locate the railtruck in an operative location for coupling beneath the trailer (10) while lowering the trailer frame on top of the railtruck.
Christen Gary D.
Combs Kenneth E.
Donkin Thomas G.
Jones Richard L.
Kealey Thomas F.
Smart & Biggar
Wabash National Corporation
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