Railway draft appliances – Cushioned – Cooperating parts fixed to car
Patent
1998-03-27
2000-02-15
Le, Mark T.
Railway draft appliances
Cushioned
Cooperating parts fixed to car
213 61, B61G 700
Patent
active
060242337
ABSTRACT:
A locking wedge assembly for use in a slackless drawbar assembly designed to connect together, in a substantially semi-permanent fashion, adjacently disposed ends of a pair of railway cars. Such locking wedge assembly including a locking wedge member having a top surface and a bottom surface. A crushable support member has a top surface engageable with at least a portion of the bottom surface of such wedge member. An aperture is formed through the crushable support member and an anchoring member is engaged with the locking wedge member and extends through such aperture formed in the crushable support member for securing the locking wedge member in such slackless drawbar assembly. Such anchoring member includes at least a threaded portion for at least one of receiving a nut thereon and for threadedly engaging a threaded aperture formed in the wedge member adjacent the bottom surface of such wedge member to enable tightening of such locking wedge member in place.
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Daugherty Jr. David W.
Natschke Scott
Ring Michael E.
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