Brakes – Position adjusters – Slack
Patent
1977-12-05
1978-12-05
Reger, Duane A.
Brakes
Position adjusters
Slack
188 52, F16D 6562
Patent
active
041281489
ABSTRACT:
A brake rigging arrangement for high capacity dropped bottom gondola cars of the curved bottom type in which each end of the car up to the dropped bottom is in the form of a planar shear plate that is coextensive with the car end and is highly stressed under load, and is integrated with a stub center sill and body bolster, in which arrangement the rigging is of the double ended car supported type, and at each end of the car, the rigging for that end of the car is applied entirely below the shear plate in question and is integrated with the car end stub center sill at the level of the stub center sill without requiring perforation of the shear plate in the load bearing area of the car end. The rigging components include a cylinder lever and an adjusting floating lever extending crosswise of the car and operating partially within the center sill; the rigging components are located adjacent the level of the center sill neutral axis to minimize reinforcement needs, and a slack adjuster mounting arrangement is included that adjusts the live end of the rigging for slack occasioned by brake shoe wear, loss, and replacement.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3337011 (1967-08-01), Billeter
patent: 3378112 (1968-04-01), Roselius et al.
patent: 3543889 (1970-12-01), Roselius et al.
Harbil, Inc.
Reger Duane A.
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