Articulated rail car connector

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1994-07-18

1996-05-28

Oberleitner, Robert J.

Railway draft appliances

Couplings

Glass table

105 41, 280511, B61G 700

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055202950

ABSTRACT:
An articulated connector for flexibly connecting the adjacent ends of a pair of rail car platforms which are supported on a common truck bolster, the connector comprising a spherical bearing formed integrally with a conventional center plate bearing of one car platform, and spherical elements carried by the other car platform for cooperable engagement with the spherical bearing to transmit vertical, lateral and longitudinal train forces between the adjacent platforms solely through engagement of the mating spherical bearing elements.

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