FREIGHT CAR BODY Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport. SUBSTANCE: freight car body has frame, side and end face walls and sectional detachable roof resting on upper binders of side and end face walls. Section locks are mounted on side walls. Crank gear of each lock has turnbuckle built into connecting rod for adjusting its length. Hook fitted on end of connecting rod engages with pin mounted on section binder. Connecting rod has flat side faces for engagement with fork of stop, limiting turning of connecting rod around its longitudinal axis, which is secured on side wall. Stops and guides are mounted on binders for orientation of sections. Stops engage with inner surface of upper binders of side walls and U-shaped guides straddle binders of end face walls. EFFECT: enhanced reliability of roof fastening. 7 dwg