Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Railcar-mover vehicle
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Application No.: US15697528Application Date: 2017-09-07
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Publication No.: US10696113B2Publication Date: 2020-06-30
- Inventor: Scott Allen Lang , Dwight Johannes Thelwell
- Applicant: CUSTOM TRUCK & EQUIPMENT LLC
- Applicant Address: US MO Kansas City
- Assignee: CUSTOM TRUCK & EQUIPMENT LLC
- Current Assignee: CUSTOM TRUCK & EQUIPMENT LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MO Kansas City
- Agency: Lathrop GPM LLP
- Main IPC: B61F1/04
- IPC: B61F1/04 ; B60F1/04 ; B60F1/00

Abstract:
Disclosed herein is a railcar-moving vehicle having a highway mode for operation on roadways, and a rail mode for operation on rails. The railcar-moving vehicle including a support system, at least one drive axle with rubber tried drive wheels, and at least one pair of steering tires and two spaced apart rail bogies suspended by the support system. The railcar-moving vehicle including a weighted sled frame slidably mounted to the support system, the sled frame translatable between the front end and the rear end of the support system for optimizing weight distribution for increasing traction by the bogies when in rail mode. The bogies retained in an elevated and stowed position during highway mode and in a lowered position when in rail mode.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190070918A1 RAILCAR-MOVER VEHICLE Public/Granted day:2019-03-07
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