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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6179093 | Power source activated handbrake release mechanism A power source activated handbrake release mechanism for automatically releasing a parking brake assembly for a railroad vehicle braking system is provided. The power source activated handbrake release mechanism includes a hydraulically or pneumatically a... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6148965 | Railcar brake arrangement An articulated railcar has several well car units for carrying shipping containers, highways trailers, or a combination of the two. The well car units permit the nose of a long highway trailer to overhang the articulated connection between two adjacent ca... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6148966 | Adapter system for a railway vehicle braking system An adapter system for use in railway vehicle braking systems for increasing the height of a slack adjuster with respect to a force transfer lever in the braking system is provided. Increasing the height of the slack adjuster in the system results in bette... | 11/21/2000 |
| 6138800 | Rail vehicle brake device A braking device for a railroad vehicle including traction bars is arranged to apply a braking pad on a braking surface affixed to a wheel of the vehicle. The braking device includes a reaction member, at least one lever arranged to cooperate with the rea... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6116382 | Braking device for a railway vehicle The invention relates a braking device for a railroad vehicle including traction structure (1, 2) arranged to apply a braking pad on a braking surface affixed to a wheel of the vehicle. It includes a reaction member (11, 20), at least one lever (6; 6', 6"... | 09/12/2000 |
| 5407033 | Brake unit and spring energy accumulator for it An improved spring energy accumulators are used to actuate brake units mounted to either end of a transmission for a track laying vehicle drive train. The housing of the spring energy accumulator is directly mounted to the housing of the brake unit. The s... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5325939 | Drive unit for vehicles driven on rails A drive unit for vehicles driven on rails includes an electric drive motor. A transmission which is driven by the drive motor has a main transmission hollow drive shaft. A hollow coupling shaft supports brake surfaces. One flexible rubber coupling is conn... | 07/05/1994 |
| 5127283 | Handbrake mechanism for railway cars A railway car brake mechanism is comprised of a hand wheel on a shaft and a housing with a rotatable gear wheel and square chain winding disposed within. A ratchet wheel rotatable with the hand wheel shaft and a freely rotatable pinion which engages the g... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5069312 | Handbrake for single-cylinder truck-mounted railway car brake A handbrake system for use with a truck-mounted, single-cylinder brake rigging including truss-type brake beams, there being a single handbrake pivotal lever supported intermediate its ends by a twisted transfer link that is, in turn, fixed to the brake r... | 12/03/1991 |
| 4971179 | Brake device for rail vehicles or trains The braking device has several groups of brakes (22 to 25), which can be applied separately by a control device (35) and each of which has at least one friction brake (16 to 19). The control device (35) controls the application of the groups of brakes (22... | 11/20/1990 |
| 4905795 | Handbrake operating linkage for multi-unit rail cars An improved single manual brake operating system for connecting the brake equipment of a plurality of wheeled railroad freight car trucks. The system provides for initial rapid takeup of slack in the linkages interconnecting the braking mechanisms for sev... | 03/06/1990 |
| 4679506 | Railway truck with improved steering linkage, detachable suspension and traction motor mounted brake A self-steering railway truck is disclosed having a novel axle relating traction linkage connecting with the bearing housings of a separable suspension system having detachable spring seats shimable for height adjustment. The brake mechanism is mounted on... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4527666 | Rail vehicle disc brake arrangement A rail vehicle disc brake arrangement is provided with a brake cylinder (8-10), a slack adjuster (14), and pad holders (3, 4) with brake pads (5, 6) on either side of a disc (7) to be braked. In order to attain a compact and cheap but forceful and reliabl... | 07/09/1985 |
| 4489814 | Hand brake arrangement In accordance with the present invention, a hand brake assembly (300) is mounted adjacent one end of a first car or articulated unit (303). A force dividing assembly (306) is provided on the first car, which divides the applied hand brake into a first (31... | 12/25/1984 |
| 4474267 | Method of hydraulically damping railway car body roll A method for controlling car body roll in high capacity railraod 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 co... | 10/02/1984 |
| 4452345 | Brake system for railway vehicle A brake system for a railway vehicle and method of making same are provided and such brake system comprises a brake rod member, a horizontal supporting member which is adapted to support the rod member for sliding movements thereon, and an antifriction co... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4402272 | Rail-transportation system A rail-transportation system had a longitudinally elongated rail assembly along which extends a longitudinally moving traction element connected to a plurality of longitudinally spaced cars riding on the assembly. The rail assembly consists of upper and l... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4339997 | Automatic emergency activated railway brakes A railroad car is equipped with air release means in air flow communication with the car train pipe that is normally provided for connection with the air brake train line of a railroad train. Activators for the air release means are associated with respec... | 07/20/1982 |
| 4269288 | Train derail emergency brake system Downwardly depending contact members are secured to the undercarriage of railroad cars and positioned inboard from the wheels of the cars and also positioned above the level at which the wheels contact the underlying tracks. These contact members are upwa... | 05/26/1981 |
| 4225016 | Hydraulic decelerator with segmented cylinder A hydraulic decelerator having a waterbrake cylinder positioned within a reservoir wherein the cylinder is made up of a plurality of cylinder segments which are secured to a solid block member with four rods. The interfaces of the segments are ground and ... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4185719 | Truck damping A piston and cylinder motion dampening device having spiral groove metering, an orificed two-way pressure relief valve or a screw-on spring or an over-extension limiting seal retainer. A push-together method of assembling a piston and cylinder motion dampening... | 01/29/1980 |
| 4180228 | Pipe clamp A vibration accommodating clamp for securing pipes which carry brake lines and the like to the underframes of railway cars. The clamp is initially mounted by placing a U-shaped bolt over the pipe and through holes in a mounting bracket and permanently sec... | 12/25/1979 |
| 4166520 | Protective elastomeric brake rod sealing boot In a railway freight car an elastomeric boot is attached to the entrance and/or exit of a hollow sill or hollow structural member through which a brake rod passes. The brake rod passes through a brake rod opening in the boot in entering and/or leaving the... | 09/04/1979 |
| 4077496 | Railway truck movement damping A hydraulic snubber device and method of damping for railway trucks and more particularly a snubber adapted to be interposed between a bolster and a side frame member and being operative to provide a first damping rate when the railway car is operating on... | 03/07/1978 |
| 3995720 | Truck damping A method of damping relative movement between components of a railway car and more particularly a method of damping such movement which is operable only when the railway car is normally operating in a loaded condition.... | 12/07/1976 |
| 3933225 | Shock absorbing means for railway hand brake mechanism Kinetic energy shock incident to the trip release of the chain under tension of a railway car hand brake mechanism is absorbed by one or more blocks of compressible shock-absorbing solid material or by compressible shock-absorbing spring means located wit... | 01/20/1976 |
