Lading tie anchor for railway freight car

Claim 1

A railway vehicle adapted to restrain transported cargo with both flexible straps and transversely disposed rigid members and including a wall unit comprising a plurality of longitudinally spaced vertical wall posts interconnectEd by wall sheets and having a generally hat-shaped cross section with laterally extending flanges for attachment of the wall sheets and having an open portion disposed inwardly of the railway vehicle, the improvement comprising: a strap anchor strip connected over the open portion of at least one of the vertical wall posts to form an enclosed vertical box beam, said strip including vertically spaced integral pairs of openings, each of said pairs of openings being laterally spaced relative to each other and forming therebetween an integral strap anchor post portion, said post portion having laterally spaced vertical edges defining first sides of said openings, each of said first sides including integral flanges substantially the same width as said strip and extending the height of said openings, said flanges each having an arcuate portion curved outwardly with respect to said strip and being disposed within said wall post and said integral flange portion further including terminal edges facing each other outwardly of said anchor post portions to rigidify the same, each of said openings also including second vertical sides spaced laterally with respect to said first sides, said second sides including vertical curved edge portions facing outwardly within said wall posts, and belt rail attaching openings provided between said vertically spaced strap anchor post portions, said attaching openings having a contour for removably retaining belt rail fastening means.