Pedestal liner for railway vehicle and method of making same

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B - Operations, Transporting

61

F

105/52

B61F 5/32 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 1182342

ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A pedestal liner for a railway vehicle and method of making same are provided herein. Such liner Comprises a roughly U-shaped metal support comprising the main structural portion of the liner with the metal support having a bight and a pair of parallel legs and an insert is pro- vided and carried by the metal support. The insert has a pair of roughly parallel members which have outer portions disposed outwardly of and parallel to the parallel legs of the support and the parallel members are comprised of antifriction material. The antifriction polymeric material for the parallel legs of the liner supported by the metal support and adapted to engage the side surfaces, and antifriction polymeric material for the bight of the liner supported by the metal support and adapted to engage the guide surface, the antifriction polymeric material being ultra high molecular weight polymeric material, the improvement in which: the antifriction polymeric material for the parallel legs and at least a portion of the bight of the liner comprises an insert comprised of the antifriction polymeric material and being carried by the metal support, the insert having a pair of roughly parallel members which have outer portions disposed outwardly of, and parallel to, the parallel legs of the support with the outer portions being adapted to engage the side surfaces, the parallel members comprising the antifriction polymeric material for the parallel legs of the liner, the insert having an arm extending transverse its members with the arm having an outer portion which is adapted to engage the guide surfaces with the arm comprising the antifriction polymeric material for the bight. The insert is adapted to be readily installed on, and removed from, the metal support and is held in position mainly by surface portions of the metal support to define the pedestal liner.

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