公开(公告)号：EP3215408A4

公开(公告)日：2018-07-04

申请号：EP15857953

申请日：2015-11-05

申请人： HERZOG RAILROAD SERVICES INC

发明人： HERZOG STANLEY M ,  HERZOG JACOB D ,  BOUNDS IVAN E

IPC分类号： B61D7/00 ,  B65G43/08

CPC分类号： B65G67/24 ,  B61D7/02 ,  B65G43/08 ,  E01B27/00

摘要： A material transport and distribution consist including an offloading car, a generator car, and hopper cars. The offloading car includes a rotatable conveyor that can offload materials forward of and to the sides of the car. The generator car powers a plurality of hopper car conveyors. The hopper cars include a longitudinal conveyor that overlaps with conveyors of forward- and aft-located cars to enable transport of materials between cars and while the cars are negotiating a turn in the tracks. The hopper car hoppers are divided into chutes with respective guillotine-style gates. Each gate includes a resilient panel that flexes to enable closure of the gate without binding on materials exiting therefrom. A control system is provided to manage the gates and conveyors during offloading based on sensed characteristics of the operation thereof. An interlock system is also provided to initiate a cascading shutdown routine when a fault is detected.