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Rail car with end enclosure

CA 1281941 C · Owner: Burleson, Robert M. · Inventors: Burleson, Robert M.

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A rail car having a bed, sidewalls and a curbed roof defined by at least one slope on each side connecting the flat top of the roof with the sidewalls and an end opening. Substantially symmetrical doors close the end opening. The doors are hung such that each can be moved from a position closing a portion of the end opening to a stowed position substantially along the inside of a sidewall. The doors have upper gable portions that substantially entirely fill the upper portion of the end opening. The doors when in the closed, position, substantially stand in one plane. First and second sloped end portionsof the roof at each side and near the end opening are arranged with the lower edge …

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  • Granted March 26, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 26, 2008.
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FiledMay 26, 1986
GrantedMarch 26, 1991
Term endedMarch 26, 2008
Patent numberCA 1281941 C
Classification (IPC)B61D3/02 +2 more

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19871990199319961999200220052008Application filedMay 26, 1986Patent grantedMarch 26, 1991Term endedMarch 26, 2008

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