B - Operations – Transporting – 61 – F
Patent
B - Operations, Transporting
61
F
105/76
B61F 5/06 (2006.01) B61F 5/12 (2006.01) B61F 5/24 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 1124574
METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING RAILROAD CAR BODY ROLL Abstract of the Disclosure An arrangement and method for controlling car body roll in high capacity railroad freight cars, in accordance with which a hydro-pneumatic roll control unit is incorporated in the car truck spring groups that support. the respective truck bolsters. The roll control unit comprises a base housing defining a lower or outer cylinder having an upstanding piston rod structure equipped with a piston head that reciprocably mounts a tubular ram having a ram head that operates in the outer cylinder and defines an upper or inner cylinder in which the base housing piston head operates. An annular rolling seal is received in circumambient relation about and connected to both cylinders in invaginating leak free relation thereto, which defines an annular reservoir about said cylinders with which both cylinders have communication. The cylinders and the reservoir are given a hydraulic liquid charge sufficient to fully fill the two cylinders and the lower portion of the reservoir and a gas charge within the reservoir that forms a pressurized gas pocket above the level of the hydraulic liquid charge in the reservoir. The gas charge maintains the unit in constant contact with the bolster and side frame seats. In functioning to control body roll, both cylinders resist roll under constant pressure conditions while the outer or lower cylinder provides supplemental resistance under velocity sensitive conditions, with the hydraulic liquid cycling through the hydraulic system of the unit as the unit operates as part of a bolster spring group.
353357
Holland Company
Macrae & Co.
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