Slackless buff gear connection system with sliding yoke casting

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1993-07-27

1994-11-01

Oberleitner, Robert J.

Railway draft appliances

Cushioned

Drawbars

213 45, 213 50, 213 67R, 213 75R, B61G 900

Patent

active

053601246

ABSTRACT:
A railway car connection system for a railway car having a center sill. Such connection system includes a sliding yoke. The sliding yoke having a front pocket portion open at a front end thereof. The front pocket portion is formed by a top wall portion, a bottom wall portion and a pair of radially opposed side wall portions which form a continuous outer wall. Such continuous outer wall has an outer cross section complementary to an interior cross section of such center sill and capable of both being received therein and sliding longitudinally thereof. The top wall portion has a first bore therethrough and the bottom wall portion has a second bore therethrough concentric with such first bore. A rear block portion having a top wall portion, a bottom wall portion and side wall portions each adjacent the corresponding top wall portion, bottom wall portion and side wall portions of such front pocket portion. At least the side wall portions of such rear block portion being recessed inwardly toward a longitudinal center line of the sliding yoke from corresponding adjacent portions of such continuous outer wall of the front pocket portion. Such rear block portion has a rear wall surface provided with a bore having its axis along the longitudinal centerline of the front pocket portion. Such bore extending through the rear wall surface of such rear block portion and at least partly through such rear block portion.

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Drawing Headed: American Steel Foundries-The Good Ride Company No date, 1 page.

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