Railway draft appliances – Cushioned – Cooperating parts fixed to car
Patent
1995-09-11
1996-09-24
Le, Mark T.
Railway draft appliances
Cushioned
Cooperating parts fixed to car
213 50, 213 61, 213 62R, 213 66, B61G 700
Patent
active
055582389
ABSTRACT:
A slackless drawbar assembly connecting adjacent ends of a pair of freight cars together. Such assembly includes a first pair of vertically disposable rear draft stop members and a first pair of radially opposed front draft stop members engageable with and securable to respective ones of a pair of side wall portions of a center sill member disposed on a first car. Each of such first pair of rear and front draft stops include a flat and respectively facing surface portion formed thereon. Additionally, each flat surface portion on at least one of such first pair of rear and front draft stops include a taper. There is a drawbar member provided which has a predetermined length. A first aperture is formed through this drawbar adjacent a first end thereof. There is a first ball member provided which has at least a portion thereof disposed in such first aperture. A first race assembly is secured to such drawbar adjacent such first aperture. Such first race assembly has an inner surface thereof surrounding such at least a portion of the first ball. A first pair of shaft members extend outwardly from opposed sides of such first ball. Each of such first pair of shafts includes opposed flat surfaced end portions which are wedge shaped and which engage respective ones of such flat and respectively facing surface portions on each of such pair of rear and front draft stops. Finally, a first securing device is provided which engages with such center sill portion of such first car and a bottom surface of each of such shafts for securing the assembly within such center sill in a vertical direction.
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Le Mark T.
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
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