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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8082855 | Center bowl liner with spring washer conductor A center bowl liner is provided for use between a center plate of a railroad car and a center bowl surface on a truck bolster. The center bowl liner includes a disc-shaped element having top and bottom surfaces and a central opening for receiving a center pin. A con... | 12/27/2011 |
| 6915746 | Center plate assembly for a rail road car A railroad car body has a longitudinally extending center sill, and a main bolster extending transversely relative to the center sill. A center plate is mounted under the center sill at the intersection of the center sill and the main bolster. The center plate seats... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6857375 | Traction pins for railway cars A one-piece, cast traction pin for use with railway cars. The traction pin is used to connect the railcar cab with the railcar truck assembly. The traction pin includes a mounting plate cast integral with the pin, thereby eliminating the use of multiple welded plate... | 02/22/2005 |
| 6792874 | Railroad car center plate assembly conductive liner A self-lubricating center plate assembly liner for placement between a car body center plate and a truck bolster bowl of a center plate assembly in a railroad car, wherein the liner is configured to substantially mate with the center plates and includes a body havin... | 09/21/2004 |
| 6324995 | Railway car center filler plate Center filler plates for mounting on draft sills of railway car underframes are disclosed. The center filler plates have four pockets surrounding a hub. The pockets are shallower than in the prior art, and the walls defining the pockets meet in radii havi... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6305298 | Light weight draft sill The present invention provides a lightweight draft sill end casting for use with railroad cars. The cast draft sill has side walls, front and rear stops, front and rear rib sets and a center plate that are cast as a unit. The draft sill has an open area b... | 10/23/2001 |
| 6138577 | Center plate for railcars A center plate (20) is provided for installation in a center plate pocket (21) in the underside of a railcar (10) undercarriage. The center plate (20) comprises an upper wall section (36), a lower cap section (38), and a weld area (32) between the upper w... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6041714 | Statically dissipative, non-metallic center bowl liner for railroad cars A conductive center bearing liner for railroad car center plate assemblies comprising a bowl shaped or flat round horizontal member formed from a cross-linked ultra high molecular weight polymer specially mixed with a conductive material shaped to define ... | 03/28/2000 |
| 5908001 | Center plate assembly bearing liner A self-lubricating plastic center plate assembly bearing liner for placement between a body bolster center plate and a truck bolster center plate of a center plate assembly in a railroad car, wherein the liner is configured to substantially mate with the ... | 06/01/1999 |
| 5809899 | Draft sill and wheel truck connection A connection between a draft sill and a railway wheel truck is disclosed. The draft sill has a bottom and side walls extending up from the bottom. A center pin extends downward from the bottom to an exterior end surface. A boss encircles the center pin. T... | 09/22/1998 |
| 5704296 | Cast draft sill with low profile center plate 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 elon... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5558025 | Combination wear and lubricating liner assembly for railway car truck bolster bowl A wear and lubricating liner has a cup-shaped wear liner assembly which includes a first bottom plate portion. An aperture is formed centrally through such first bottom plate and a first upstanding wall portion is connected at a bottom thereof to an outer... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5481985 | Unitary bowl liner of substantially rigid synthetic resin for a bolster of a truck A novel combination of a rail car supported on a within the center bowl of its truck bolster comprises a unitary wear liner closely fitted within the center bowl so as to require no exterior protection from grit and debris carried in the environment outsi... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5450798 | Rail truck for suspended car transit vehicles A rail truck for use in an elevated closed beam having a slot in the bottom surface for clearance of a car body support member. The passenger car body is hung beneath the beam and elevated above the ground with the trucks running inside the beam. The flan... | 09/19/1995 |
| 5443015 | Center bowl wear liners for railroad cars with varying hardness values A wear liner for use in a railroad freight car between a truck bolster bowl and a car body center plate comprises a non-metallic wear liner bowl which has a horizontal bottom floor, and an upstanding circumferential side wall extending upwardly from the p... | 08/22/1995 |
| 5423275 | Combination wear and lubricating liner assembly for railway car truck bolster bowl A wear and lubricating liner having a cup-shaped wear liner assembly which includes a first bottom plate portion. An aperture is formed centrally through such first bottom plate and a first upstanding wall portion is connected at a bottom thereof to an ou... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5295444 | Multi-axle running carriage The invention relates to a multi-axle running carriage for rail vehicles having two longitudinally, extending cast side walls (1, 2) and a transverse connecting assembly which are disposed axisparallel between two axles (3, 4) and are connected to the sid... | 03/22/1994 |
| 5275113 | Vehicle driven on rails A vehicle driven on rails includes a vehicle frame, a wheel set, a pivotable truck and at least one drive unit being disposed in the pivotable truck for acting upon the wheel set. An intermediate support is connected to the pivotable truck and to the driv... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5228393 | Center plate friction reducing assembly A low friction, high wear rail car center plate assembly of the type where a cylindrical center plate boss having a planar bottom surface and a perpendicular side wall rides rotationally in a mating bowl in a truck bolster, includes a boot which closely o... | 07/20/1993 |
| 5174219 | Bogie for a track-guided vehicle The bogie (1) features a pair of running wheels (3, 3') running on bearings fastened to a rocking frame (4). The rocking frame is hinged on one side to the bogie and connected on the other side over spring devices (5, 5') with the frame. Hereby the runnin... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5135117 | Combination railway car draft gear stop and bolster spacer plate apparatus The present invention provides a combination rear draft stop and bolster spacer plate apparatus which includes a rear wall portion, a pair of side wall portions connected along a rear edge thereof to a respective outer edge of the rear wall portion. There... | 08/04/1992 |
| 5109776 | Gondola type railway car with snug fitting center plate arrangement A railway car comprising a body and supporting truck the body having a rigid pin extending into a close-fitting socket in the truck bolster and the car body and truck bolster having close contact side bearings so that the car body and truck bolster sway e... | 05/05/1992 |
| 5024163 | Derailment resisting, tractive power railway system There is provided a multi-rail vehicle system, which can be used to improve the efficiency of existing systems and to reduce risk of derailments. The systems comprises a vehicle designed to ride upon a pair of conventional outer rails and an additional lo... | 06/18/1991 |
| 4982671 | Vehicle with steerable axles The invention relates to a vehicle having steerable axles. A track guide icle comprises at least one pair of independent wheel axles, and at least two members (14, 15) for measuring the transverse position of the vehicle relative to the track, and it is ... | 01/08/1991 |
| 4977835 | Body bolster center plate assembly A center plate for railway cars is provided that comprises outwardly projecting positioning lugs which are seated in corresponding-shaped notches located proximate the underedge of the center sill pocket. The center plate is entirely groove welded to the ... | 12/18/1990 |
| 4955292 | Dual-mode rail-highway semi-trailer with separable bogie A dual-mode semi-trailer having over-the-road or highway running gear with rubber tired wheels in which a demountable flanged rail wheel bogie is employed, the body being supported upon said highway running gear during over-the-road travel by air-springs ... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4942824 | Articulated coupling for two rail vehicles An articulated coupling for two rail vehicles supported by a common bogie comprises: (A) a toroidal part (1) connected to one of the vehicles, said part being frustoconical in its bottom zone and cylindrical in its top zone, and having a cylindrical ball ... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4869177 | Rail-highway semitrailer The semi-trailer is capable of traveling on roads or on rails. It is characterized in that both a rail truck and a highway carriage are rapidly removable. Therefore the semi-trailer can travel on roads with only the highway carriage, and on rails with onl... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4841874 | Pneumatic-spring bogie A pneumatic-spring bogie, particularly for high-speed rail vehicles. These vehicles need a drive device for the bogie, which transmits not only tensile and impact forces but also absorbs vibration, particularly in the longitudinal direction. To this end, ... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4819566 | Stabilized steerable truck A railroad vehicle is provided for movement on rails. The vehicle has a car body and two trucks. Each of the trucks has an outboard and an inboard axle mounted to the truck for pivotal movement about respective vertical axes such that the axles may be mov... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4773336 | Railroad bogie for removably supporting coupled semi-trailers A road/rail transport system is described and comprises rail bogies of the kind having two axles and a central bogie bolster arranged between the axles and transverse to the intended direction of travel and semi-trailers which are preferably of the kind h... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4744308 | Combined center plate/center filler for railway freight cars A combined center plate/center filler construction for the underframe of a railway car is provided with sloped, corner circumferential sections at the upper portion of the center plate to allow for the complete welding of the center plate to the undersurf... | 05/17/1988 |
| 4718351 | Articulated coupling for integral trains An articulated coupling having a center coupling and a plurality of side bearings or couplings coaxial along a lateral axis to facilitate yaw and pitch between two cars while restricting roll. The side bearings each have a cylindrical member on one car re... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4638742 | Vertically adjustable emergency support of a car body A vertically adjustable emergency support for the bodies of, for example, rail vehicles. Due to wear of the wheel tires, the bogie frame and the car body supported on it tend to descend. In the case of emergency supports in the region of the center pivot,... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4637318 | Swivelable single axle railcar truck and railcar The truck includes two parallel damper ramp supports connected together by a transverse tie assembly. A single wheeled axle is pivotally supported from the damper ramp supports in spaced apart parallel alignment with the transverse tie assembly by two ind... | 01/20/1987 |
| 4589348 | Retrofitted railway car and method of producing same A gondola tub type railway car having an arrangement for transferring payloads from the car side panels more directly to the bolsters. The car at each end has a lower bolster for support by a car truck, and an upper bolster secured to the lower bolster pr... | 05/20/1986 |
| 4565134 | Cylindrical surface railcar center plate A railway car center plate formed with a convex cylindrical lower surface which bears, in rocking fashion, upon the flat load supporting face of a standard truck bolster bowl. The arrangement may have one or more side bearings with elastomeric material or... | 01/21/1986 |
| 4548666 | Method for forming a railway center plate liner A wear resistant liner for use between a center plate of a body bolster and a bolster bowl of a truck bolster of a railway vehicle is provided wherein such liner comprises a polymeric laminate comprised of a first material which is adapted to reduce load ... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4483254 | Center plate structure for railway vehicle A center plate structure for a railway vehicle is provided which utilizes a polymeric wear-resistant tubular liner disposed in sandwiched relation between a cylindrical outside surface of a center plate of the body of the railway vehicle and a cylindrical... | 11/20/1984 |
| 4452148 | Cushioned center plate structure for a railway vehicle body and method of making same A cushioned center plate structure for a railway vehicle body and method of making same are provided wherein such structure comprises, a substantially cylindrical disc-like component which is adapted to be received within the confines of an upstanding per... | 06/05/1984 |
