Railway car for transport particularly for railway car trains downstream ballast cleaner machines

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EP 2 090 490 A3

(12)	EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88)	Date of publication A3:
	12.10.2011 Bulletin 2011/41

(43)	Date of publication A2:
	19.08.2009 Bulletin 2009/34

(21)	Application number: 09152125.2

(22)	Date of filing: 05.02.2009

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International Patent Classification (IPC):

B61D 5/00^(2006.01)
E01B 27/02^(2006.01)

B61D 15/00^(2006.01)
B61D 47/00^(2006.01)

(84)	Designated Contracting States:
	AT BE BG CH CY CZ DE DK EE ES FI FR GB GR HR HU IE IS IT LI LT LU LV MC MK MT NL NO PL PT RO SE SI SK TR
	Designated Extension States:
	AL BA RS

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Priority:

13.02.2008 IT MI20080230

(71)	Applicant: Rail Technology LLC
	Columbia, SC 29223 (US)

(72)	Inventor:
	Rossanigo, Cesare Columbia, SC 29223 (US)

(74)	Representative: Ponzellini, Gianmarco
	Bugnion S.p.A. Viale Lancetti 17 20158 Milano 20158 Milano (IT)

(54)	Railway car for transport particularly for railway car trains downstream ballast cleaner machines

(57) A railway car for transport, intended for ballast cleaner machines, in which a holding body (2) prevailingly extends along a predetermined direction "X". Main transport means (3) mounted on the support structure (6) conveys incoherent material along the predetermined direction (A) between a loading region (2a) of the support structure (6) and an unloading region (2b) of said structure.
Auxiliary transport means (4) is movable relative to the support structure (6) between at least two operating configurations, a first inactive configuration in which the main transport means (3) carries the incoherent material from the loading region (2a) to the unloading region (2b) and a bypass configuration in which said auxiliary transport means (4) receives the incoherent material in the inlet region (2a) instead of the main transport means (3), and conveys said material to the outlet region (2b) bypassing the main transport means (3).
In case of malfunction of the main transport means (3), the auxiliary transport means (4) can be such configured as to intervene and restore full operation of the car.

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