SCALE CAR Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; ferrous metallurgy; transportation and unloading of loose materials. SUBSTANCE: scale car has frame mounted on running gear, twin hopper with opening bottoms installed between frame beams and resting on levers of weighing device, and bottom opening mechanism including bottom opening tie-rods secured on crank of longitudinal shaft with drive from power cylinder. Power cylinder is hinge-secured on end face wall of hopper for turning in vertical plane. Cylinder is connected through pin in connecting rod head directly with crank of longitudinal shaft carrying additional tie-rod with guide slot displacing relative to fixed pin mounted on end face wall of hopper above crank. EFFECT: enlarged operating capabilities. 3 dwg