Cast draft sill with low profile center plate

Details Cast draft sill with low profile center plate Cast draft sill with low profile center plate

B - Operations, Transporting

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B61G 9/20 (2006.01) B61F 1/10 (2006.01) B61F 5/16 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2194721

An elongated light-weight, cast draft sill mountable at the end of a center sill of a railway car body, and to which a railway car truck is pivotally mountable, the cast draft sill having a generally hollow, elongated rectangular body, with a pair of elongated, parallel side walls extending perpendicularly from an elongated top wall and further including a draft pocket adjacent to the forward end adapted to receive a coupler yoke and associated draft gear, and a light weight center plate portion which is mateable to a railway car truck spaced from the rearward end of the cast draft sill. The unique center plate portion comprising a generally cubic center plate pocket defined between a pair of spaced and parallel center plate pocket end walls, extending perpendicularly between the parallel side walls of said draft sill, and a floor wall member forming a lower wall of the center plate pocket having a cylindrical periphery extending downwardly from an underside of the draft sill, and having a circular outer face with an aperture axially disposed through the circular outer face to receive a king-pin of the railway car truck.

Traverse de traction légère allongée et coulée, pouvant être installée à l'extrémité du longeron central de la carrosserie d'un wagon de chemin de fer et sur lequel un bogie de wagon peut être installé de manière à pivoter, la traverse de traction a un corps habituellement creux, allongé et rectangulaire, comptant deux parois latérales s'étendant perpendiculairement à partir d'une paroi supérieure allongée et comprenant en outre une poche de soutirage voisine de l'extrémité avant conçue pour recevoir un étrier d'attelage et le matériel de tirage associé, et une plaque centrale de faible poids pouvant être rattachée à un bogie de wagon de chemin de fer éloigné de l'extrémité arrière de la traverse de traction. La partie de liaison caisse-bogie unique comprend un logement de liaison caisse-bogie habituellement cubique défini par les parois latérales parallèles de la traverse de traction, et un élément de plancher constituant une paroi inférieure du logement de la liaison caisse-bogie possédant un pourtour cylindrique pointant vers le bas à partir du dessous de la traverse de traction et possédant une surface extérieure circulaire munie d'une ouverture placée axialement dans la surface extérieure circulaire pour recevoir un pivot d'attelage du bogie du wagon de chemin de fer.

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