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Title:
TRANSPORTATION VEHICLE
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPH0288357
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:

PURPOSE: To provide a transportation vehicle which can be moved from a place to another place by a tractor with on-road tires, and with which a trailer can be connected to an engine or a leading train in utilization of a railway by providing a coupling means to releasably connect the transportation vehicle to the engine or leading train, and a coupling means to releasably connect the trailer to the transportation vehicle.

CONSTITUTION: A transportation vehicle 10 connected to an engine tractor 14 and matched for on-road use is positioned to a position to be connected as a first train of a convertible trailer on a railway truck. In the transportation vehicle 10, an on-road wheel axle unit 34 is lowered to a ground engagement position, and a gooseneck coupler 36 is pulled from the transportation vehicle 10 to be connected to a fifth wheel of the tractor 14. On the contrary, in the transportation vehicle 10 formed for a railway traveling mode and disposed between a trailer 12 and an engine 16, the on-road wheel axle unit 34 is risen, and a rail wheel axle unit 40 is placed on rails 38. The gooseneck coupler 36 is retracted, and the transportation vehicle 10 is connected to the engine 16 through a railway coupler 42.


Inventors:
HARII OO UITSUKUSU
TEODOORU II DANKU
Application Number:
JP9544789A
Publication Date:
March 28, 1990
Filing Date:
April 17, 1989
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
CHIENBARIN GROUP INC THE
International Classes:
B61D15/00; B60F1/04; B61D3/18; B61G3/10; B62D49/00; B62D53/00; (IPC1-7): B61D15/00; B61G3/10; B62D53/00
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Aoki Akira (4 outside)