Coupler

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B - Operations, Transporting

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B61G 3/04 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1039683

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE An improved type "E" railway coupler with a top and bottom shelf is provided for reducing the possibility of derail- ments of railroad cars caused by accidental disengagement of interlocking couplers. The improved coupler has a top planar surface for fixedly carrying the top shelf and has a bottom planar surface for fixedly carrying the bottom shelf. The top shelf includes an upper abutment surface limiting the upward vertical movement of a mating coupler and has a set of down- wardly-extending coplanar pads seated upon the top planar sur- face. The bottom shelf includes a lower abutment surface limiting the bottom vertical movement of a mating coupler and has a set of upwardly-extending coplanar pads positioned against the bottom planar surface.

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