Apparatus for attaching buffer stop to railroad track

Details Apparatus for attaching buffer stop to railroad track Apparatus for attaching buffer stop to railroad track

1997-06-20

1999-02-02

Morano, S. Joseph

Railways

Car stops

Sliding

104258, 188 62, 411368, B61K 718

Patent

active

058651225

ABSTRACT:
A shoe or clamp assembly for securing a buffer stop or bumping post to railroad track with a predetermined magnitude of retardation against sliding movement of the buffer stop when the same is engaged by a moving railcar to be stopped. The shoe assembly which clamps against opposite sides of a buffer stop wall, and also clamps against opposite sides of a rail, is secured by at least one bolt and nut and also a spring stack so that a torque wrench is not required in order to effect such securement.

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Product Data Sheet from Balfour Beatty Railway Engineering Limited; Modular Sliding Buffer Stop Revision B, not dated.
"Rawie" advertisement in Railway Gazette International, Jun. 1996.

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