Tractor bogie with incorporated gauge-change system

Details Tractor bogie with incorporated gauge-change system Tractor bogie with incorporated gauge-change system

1997-03-26

1998-10-06

Morano, S. Joseph

Railway rolling stock

Trucks

Changeable gauge

464158, B61F 700

Patent

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058161708

ABSTRACT:
A tractor bogie with an integral gauge-change system which includes two frames which support sets of running gear and have sliding and centering blocks to support the bogie and unweight the wheels as they pass through a gauge changer; a toothed extendible axle arranged between each pair of sets of running gear; and a pinion/ring-gear transmission set fitted on the bogie frame to transmit the traction moment to the extendible axle. The invention is applicable to rolling stock adapted to run on tracks having two gauges.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1302925 (1919-05-01), Holmes
patent: 2346370 (1944-04-01), Eustis et al.
patent: 2978885 (1961-04-01), Davison
patent: 4357137 (1982-11-01), Brown
patent: 5546868 (1996-08-01), Sugimoto et al.

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