MULTIPURPOSE FREIGHT BOXCAR Russian patent published in 1996 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; boxcars for carrying solid cargoes and passenger cars. SUBSTANCE: car has running gear with body, longitudinal supports secured in middle of body side walls, flooring installed on supports to form second tier and made of rectangular shape flat members. Each end face wall of body is made in form of two two-fold doors arranged one over the other for corresponding tier. Support beam is installed between doors. Flooring is divided into two sections, each movably connected with corresponding support beam by one end and with cable-and-sheave flooring section moving mechanism by other end. Flat members of each section of flooring are movably intercoupled. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 3 dwg