Rail car buffer and method

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1997-01-21

1999-06-01

Morano, S. Joseph

Railway draft appliances

Car-end bumpers or buffers

Resilient

188287, 267219, B61G 1112

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059081236

ABSTRACT:
A rail car buffer has a capsule body and a spring assembly with an elastomer spring and a gas filled hydraulic spring in the body. Expansion of the buffer after collapse is snubbed by the gas filled hydraulic spring to convert energy stored in the elastomer spring to heat.

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