FREIGHT CAR FOR AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS Russian patent published in 1995 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; transportation and reloading of easy-to-damage loose agricultural produce, for instance, potato. SUBSTANCE: car has belt whose middle part is laid along floor and end portions adjoin end face walls. Mounted on free ends of belt are return sheaves with reeved in cable. One end of cable is secured on end face wall, and other end is coupled with shaft of electric motor. Car has also parallel carrying cables secured by ends on opposite sides of car and placed above corresponding return sheaves engaging with rollers installed on corresponding carrying cables. Fitted on middle portion of belt are folding shells arranged in longitudinal rows over belt width at distance equal to width of door aperture. Upper shells are displaced relative to lower shells through half the width of shell. EFFECT: enhanced safety of product in transportation. 3 dwg