Support housing for a rotary end of a slackless drawbar

Details Support housing for a rotary end of a slackless drawbar Support housing for a rotary end of a slackless drawbar

1994-02-25

1996-05-28

Mitchell, David M.

Railway draft appliances

Couplings

Glass table

213 61, B61G 922

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055202942

ABSTRACT:
A support housing for a rotary end of a slackless drawbar adapted to be secured within an end of a center sill of a railroad car having an elongated cavity defined by a pair of side wall portions, a top wall portion and a back wall portion, said cavity being adapted to receive the rotary end portion of a rotary drawbar such that a shank portion of such rotary drawbar extends through an open front of the support housing, said cavity being further adapted to receive a buff load bearing block and a slack adjusting gravity wedge between the back wall portion and the rotary end of the rotary drawbar and having a specially configured surface therein adapted to receive a specially configured draft load bearing insert and a flange to retain the specially configured draft load bearing insert within the cavity and against the spherical draft load bearing surface on the rotary end of the rotary drawbar.

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