Vehicle coupler for connecting two or more convertible rail-high

Details Vehicle coupler for connecting two or more convertible rail-high Vehicle coupler for connecting two or more convertible rail-high

1987-02-18

1989-03-21

Peters, Jr., Joseph F.

Railway draft appliances

Couplings

Combined car and air train line

105 41, B61G 506

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048135550

ABSTRACT:
A coupling system for connecting convertible rail-highway vehicles which are adapted to operate on highways as conventional semi-trailers as well as on railway tracks in an articulated rail mode. The coupling system enables automatic coupling of vehicles when a vehicle is backed into a stationary vehicle and the transmission of large forces due to compression and tension in long trains while permitting the requisite movements of relative roll, pitch and yaw at a point between end faces of the coupled vehicles.

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