Lock for a railroad hopper car outlet gate end tube assembly
CA 2029949 A1 · Owner: Thrall Car Manufacturing Company · Inventors: Pankow, James C.; Fritz, William E.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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Abstract of the Disclosure, A lock for the end tube assembly and gate valve for the outlet gate of a railroad hopper car includes an elongated flexible cable and a locking element. The end tube assembly includes an end tube and an end tube cap for closing the end tube. There is a pivotal connection and a latch between the cap the end tube. The latch includes a latch member having an opening therein. The gate valve includes a valve member and an operating handle. The operating handle has an opening therein and is located adjacent to the latch member. The elongated cable, which forms a portion of the lock passes through the, handle opening and the latch member opening and has opposite ends …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed November 14, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended November 14, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 14, 2012.
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