37 patents
Utility
Refrigerated Boxcar Ducted Floor
16 Nov 23
According to some embodiments, a refrigerated railcar comprises a pair of side walls, a roof, a floor, and a refrigeration unit.
KENNETH W. HUCK, CARTER RAY ANDREWS, MARCO A. MORALES, RICKY A. CRIBBS
Filed: 27 Jul 23
Utility
Hopper Railcar Composite Partition
12 Oct 23
According to some embodiments, a railcar comprises at least two hoppers for transporting a commodity.
Kenneth W. Huck, Codrington E. Barzey, Ricky A. Cribbs, Scott M. Lewit
Filed: 15 Jun 23
Utility
Protective Cover for Railcars
7 Sep 23
A protective cover for a truck assembly of a railcar comprises a first end portion, a second end portion, and a middle portion.
Dean Lawrence Matzo, Marco Antonio Morales, Adriano Scarano Ferreira, Charles Cody Aldredge, Gary Kramar, Daniel Brian Hayworth
Filed: 1 Mar 22
Utility
Repositionable Protective Housing or Manway Cover
13 Jul 23
According to particular embodiments, a repositionable protective housing or manway cover assembly comprises a protective housing or manway cover, a hinge bracket, and a and a manway shell or nozzle.
Paul Lawrence Rogers, Kenneth W. Huck
Filed: 5 Jan 23
Utility
Railcar Heating Assembly
2 Feb 23
A railcar comprises a tank coupled to a heating assembly.
Charles Cody Aldredge
Filed: 22 Jul 22
Utility
Hopper Car Discharge Gate Seal Assembly
24 Nov 22
A railcar comprises a hopper coupled to a discharge assembly.
Jerry W. Vande Sande, Carter Ray Andrews, Brant R. McGhee, Andrew Brown, Kenneth W. Huck
Filed: 18 May 22
Utility
Door Assembly for Railcars
24 Nov 22
A door assembly for a railcar includes a sliding system and a latching system.
Suman Gachhadar, Adam James Waldo
Filed: 23 May 22
Utility
Universal Hitch Intermodal Well Car System
28 Jul 22
A system for a well car includes a frame, a hitch coupled to the frame near the first end of the frame, and a first deck coupled to the frame.
Grant Keyser, Andrew Brown
Filed: 27 Jan 21
Utility
System and Method for Reconfiguring an Autorack
9 Jun 22
A method comprises removing a first deck of a plurality of decks and a second deck of the plurality of decks from an autorack.
Kyle R. Coston, David W. Higginbotham, Robert J. DeGroot
Filed: 21 Feb 22
Utility
Hourglass Autorack Car Interior
14 Oct 21
According to some embodiments, an autorack railcar comprises first and second ends, and first and second longitudinal sides disposed between the first and second ends.
Kenneth W. Huck, Kyle R. Coston
Filed: 13 Apr 20
Utility
Hourglass Autorack Car Roof
2 Sep 21
According to some embodiments, an autorack railcar roof assembly comprises a center roof panel, a first intermediate roof panel adjacent one side of the center roof panel, and a second intermediate roof panel adjacent an opposite of the center roof panel from the first intermediate roof panel.
Kenneth W. Huck, Brant R. McGhee, Kyle R. Coston, Steven E. Daniels, Robert C. Runyan
Filed: 2 Mar 20
Utility
System and Method for Reconfiguring an Autorack
19 Aug 21
A method comprises removing a first deck of a plurality of decks and a second deck of the plurality of decks from an autorack.
Kyle R. Coston, Gary V. Turner, David W. Higginbotham, Robert J. DeGroot
Filed: 3 May 21
Utility
Torque Box
8 Jul 21
A torque box includes a front plate and a bottom surface.
Robert S. TRENT, David C. BRABB, Anand PRABHAKARAN
Filed: 6 Jun 18
Utility
Grate Track with Center Hinge
18 Mar 21
A railcar system is disclosed.
Robert J. Cencer
Filed: 10 Sep 20
Utility
Sill Connection for Railcar Structure
18 Mar 21
A system for connecting a center sill to a draft sill in a railcar includes a center sill portion that includes a center sill portion top plate, a draft sill portion that includes a draft sill top plate, the draft sill portion having a draft sill cross-section larger than a center sill cross-section of the center sill portion.
Shaun Richmond
Filed: 11 Sep 20
Utility
Graphite Materials, and Methods for Fabricating and Use Thereof
18 Mar 21
Cellulose nanofibers (CNF) act as a dispersing agent to directly exfoliate graphite in an aqueous solution using sonication.
Liangbing HU, Yubing ZHOU, Chaoji CHEN, Teng LI, Robert W. FOSTER, Dapeng LIU
Filed: 8 Feb 19
Utility
Modular Railcar Underframe and Top Container
25 Feb 21
According to some embodiments, a modular railcar comprises: a pair of trucks disposed near each end of the modular railcar; an underframe coupled to the pair of trucks and supported by the pair of trucks.
Rajesh K. GUPTA, Konstantin l. KHENOKH, Suman GACHHADAR, Percy Hoshang ELAVIA, Matthew Gabriel WESTLAKE
Filed: 29 Jan 19
Utility
Hopper Railcar Composite Partition
11 Feb 21
According to some embodiments, a railcar comprises at least two hoppers for transporting a commodity.
Kenneth W. Huck, Codrington E. Barzey, Ricky A. Cribbs, Scott M. Lewit
Filed: 4 Aug 20
Utility
Refrigerated Boxcar Ducted Floor
11 Feb 21
According to some embodiments, a refrigerated railcar comprises a pair of side walls, a roof, a floor, and a refrigeration unit.
Kenneth W. Huck, Carter Ray Andrews, Marco A. Morales, Ricky A. Cribbs
Filed: 7 Aug 20
Utility
Railcar Backup Cooling System
14 Jan 21
A railcar backup cooling system may be added to an existing railcar (e.g., a boxcar) to provide supplemental or backup cooling to the railcar in the event that an HVAC failure or other circumstance occurs, which causes the interior temperature of the railcar to rise.
Carter Ray Andrews
Filed: 22 May 20