Patent ID: 9643666
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: B61D,B62D,B65G

Claim:
1. A supporting cross-member ( 1 ) that can be removed from a rail transport car and manipulated by a handling device for loading, unloading and securing a semi-trailer ( 2 ) onto each of a fixed supporting railway structure ( 42 ), a removable supporting railway structure ( 42 ) or a movable supporting railway structure ( 42 ) on the rail transport car ( 3 ), the supporting cross-member ( 1 ) comprising: a body which supports a fifth wheel ( the cross-member ( a mechanism for raising a vertical position of the fifth wheel ( a means for locking the fifth wheel in position relative to the body of the cross-member ( each opposed side of the cross-member ( at least one retainer ( the body of the cross-member being a generally flat body formed of a metal base structure supporting the fifth wheel ( the at least one retainer ( an opening of the at least one retainer (