Railway rolling stock – Trucks – Axle bearing mounting
Patent
1986-04-25
1987-09-01
Reeves, Robert B.
Railway rolling stock
Trucks
Axle bearing mounting
105165, 1052182, 267 3, 267273, 280687, 280717, B61F 530
Patent
active
046900691
ABSTRACT:
Spring suspensions for the sprung mass of railway cars are disclosed and which provide torque arm support of both empty and loaded cars and control of axle movement, as in curving by hinging the outer ends of radial torque arms in support of the sprung mass above the vertical axes of the axles of the railway car trucks in which the inner ends of the torque arms are integral with hubs of torque reactive, loaded car spring elements mounted on the journal boxes and in which the hubs are concentric with the axles. In a construction where the loaded car spring elements are mounted on a cross bolster between a pair of axles at the ends of high productivity cars, axes of the spring elements are positioned above the axes of the axles and the outer ends of the torque arms are connected to the journal boxes. In either construction, empty car spring elements are disclosed which are interposed between the sprung mass and the car axles and which are hinged to the ends of torque arms of the loaded car spring elements.
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Hajec Donald T.
Reeves Robert B.
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