Coupling means for railcar moving vehicles

Details Coupling means for railcar moving vehicles Coupling means for railcar moving vehicles

1991-07-29

1994-07-05

Oberleitner, Robert J.

Railway rolling stock

Locomotives

Traction regulators

B61C 1100

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053257910

ABSTRACT:
A coupling mechanism for use on a railcar moving vehicle designed to couple with European-type railway cars having an end sill at each end of the car which supports a centrally disposed draft hook and a pair of buffers mounted one at each end of the end sill, the coupling mechanism including a casting which moves laterally on a plurality of rollers, a crossbar or lifting beam carried on the end of the casting and pivotal relative thereto about a vertical axis, a pair of lifting forks carried on the respective ends of the crossbar, and a pair of buffer plates carried at opposite ends of the crossbar and positioned to push against corresponding buffers on a railway car. The coupling mechanism also includes a sensing device which controls lateral movement of the casting during a pushing or pulling operation in accordance with relative lateral movement of the railcar end sill and buffers.

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patent: 3540381 (1970-11-01), White
patent: 3709153 (1973-01-01), Herscovitch
patent: 4040507 (1977-08-01), Reise

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