Railway rolling stock – Wheel or axle drive – Resilient drive
Patent
1975-08-07
1978-06-20
Hoffman, Drayton E.
Railway rolling stock
Wheel or axle drive
Resilient drive
295 2, B60B 1700, B60B 1910, B60B 3700, B61C 944
Patent
active
040955303
ABSTRACT:
An elastic drive coupling between an electrically powered hollow drive shaft and the drive wheel of a track operated vehicle such as for example an electric locomotive wherein an annular coupling plate is located adjacent to but spaced from the inner side of the drive wheel and the inner periphery of the coupling plate is secured to the hub of the drive wheel. The outermost of two concentric, radially spaced rings surrounding the hollow drive shaft and between which a rubber-containing elastic member is secured, is fixed to the outer periphery of the coupling plate and the innermost ring is fixed to the hollow drive shaft.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2365505 (1944-12-01), Alben
patent: 2404115 (1946-07-01), Williams
patent: 3661096 (1972-05-01), Kayserling
Frantz Edmund
Guthlein Heinz
Kalinowski Paul
Koch Wilhelm
Korber Joachim
BBC Brown Boveri & Company Limited
Beltran Howard
Hoffman Drayton E.
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