Fittings for autorack railroad car

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9067605
APP PUB NO 20140116290A1
SERIAL NO

13666830

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An autorack rail road car has an underframe having a main deck, and a rack mounted to the underframe. The rack supports one or more decks above the main deck, and also supports, or defines, an enclosure that protects the automobiles carried as lading. One way to prolong the life of the rack is to delay corrosion. Corrosion may start in locations that are difficult to clean, or that have not been cleaned prior to painting. Autorack upper decks may use longitudinally extending stringers. A stringer of closed section may be less prone to facilitating early corrosion, and may be less prone to drip rust-filled water on automobiles carried as lading. In some embodiments the stringer may be placed at a slope discontinuity in the lading deck, and may overlap that slope discontinuity.

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  • NATIONAL STEEL CAR LIMITED

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Duwyn, Ryan Hamilton, CA 1 1
Hematian, Jamal Burlington, CA 31 659

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