Patent ID: 8308409

Claim:
A railroad car coil restraint system for a transverse railroad coil car having a trough, said trough including a front wall and a back wall and configured to hold a coil, said railroad car coil restraint system comprising: a plurality of coil restraints, each coil restraint having: (a) a bottom wall configured to be attached to one of the front and back walls of the trough, (b) a top wall, and (c) a plurality of elongated spaced-apart independently flexible compression members directly attached to and extending between the bottom wall and the top wall, said coil restraints configured to be mounted in the trough such that: (i) when the coil is positioned in said trough, the coil compresses certain portions of said coil restraints and does not compress other portions of said coil restraints, and (ii) certain of said other portions of the coil restraints are configured to prevent sideways shifting of the coil by engaging sides of the coil.