Railway rolling stock – Trucks – Bogie
Patent
1979-06-25
1981-01-20
Beltran, Howard
Railway rolling stock
Trucks
Bogie
105199A, 267 3, 267 8A, 267 9A, B61F 506, B61F 512, B61F 524
Patent
active
042455634
ABSTRACT:
An arrangement for controlling car body roll in high capacity railroad freight cars, in accordance with which a hydro-pneumatic roll contact unit is incorporated in the car truck spring groups that support the respective truck bolsters. The roll control unit comprises a base housing defining a lower or outer cylinder having an upstanding piston rod structure equipped with a piston head that reciprocably mounts a tubular ram having a ram head that operates in the outer cylinder and defines an upper or inner cylinder in which the base housing piston head operates. An annular rolling seal is received in circumambient relation about and connected to both cylinders invaginating leak free relation thereto, which defines an annular reservoir about said cylinders with which both cylinders have communication. The cylinders and the reservoir are given a hydraulic liquid charge sufficient to fully fill the two cylinders and the lower portion of the reservoir, and a gas charge within the reservoir that forms a pressurized gas pocket above the level of the hydraulic liquid charge in the reservoir. The gas charge maintains the unit in constant contact with the bolster and side frame seats. In functioning to control body roll, both cylinders resist roll under constant pressure conditions while the outer or lower cylinder provides supplemental resistance under velocity sensitive conditions, with the hydraulic liquid cycling through the hydraulic system of the unit as the unit operates as part of a bolster spring group.
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