Cast draft sill with low profile center plate

Details Cast draft sill with low profile center plate Cast draft sill with low profile center plate

1996-09-13

1998-01-06

Morano, S. Joseph

Railway rolling stock

Car framing and structure

Draft-sill framing

1051994, B61F 100

Patent

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057042969

ABSTRACT:
An elongated light-weight, cast draft sill mountable at the end of a center sill of a railway car body, and to which a railway car truck is pivotally mountable, the cast draft sill having a generally hollow, elongated rectangular body, with a pair of elongated, parallel side walls extending perpendicularly from an elongated top wall and further including a draft pocket adjacent to the forward end adapted to receive a coupler yoke and associated draft gear, and a light weight center plate portion which is mateable to a railway car truck spaced from the rearward end of the cast draft sill. The unique center plate portion comprising a generally cubic center plate pocket defined between a pair of spaced and parallel center plate pocket end walls, extending perpendicularly between the parallel side walls of said draft sill, and a floor wall member forming a lower wall of the center plate pocket having a cylindrical periphery extending downwardly from an underside of the draft sill, and having a circular outer face with an aperture axially disposed through the circular outer face to receive a king-pin of the railway car truck.

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patent: 3703239 (1972-11-01), Furniss
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patent: 4206710 (1980-06-01), Spence
patent: 4359003 (1982-11-01), Miller et al.
patent: 4589348 (1986-05-01), Holabeck et al.

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