Patent ID: 6354778
Filing Date: 2002-03-12
Classification: B61D

Abstract:
A container support bracket for a well car, the wellcar having first and second longitudinally spaced apart end structures and first and second transversely spaced apart side structures extending between the end structures, the end structures and the side structures defining a well therebetween, the side structures each having a top chord, a bottom chord, and a sidewall extending between the top and bottom chords, each bottom chord having an upwardly extending leg and an inwardly extending leg, wherein said container support bracket comprises:a body, having a first transversely extending leg, a portion of said transversely extending leg being engageable with the inwardly extending leg of one of the bottom chords; said body having a second upwardly extending leg for mounting adjacent to said upwardly extending leg of said bottom chord; said body having an upwardly facing surface for supporting intermodal container loads; a stop mounted to said body; said upwardly facing surface having portions extending longitudinally to either side of said stop to support container loads to either longitudinal side of said stop; said stop being movable to a retracted position under the vertical load of a cargo container, and in said retracted position said stop permitting longitudinal shifting of a container relative to the structure to either longitudinal side thereof; and said stop being biased to an extended position, and, in said extended position said stop stands in the way of shifting of a container from either longitudinal side past said stop.