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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5927521 | Lightweight and topless draft arm A lightweight and topless draft arm is disclosed for use in a railway car. The draft arm includes an open top surface with the metal layer removed, lateral support members and tiebars transversing the side walls for greater draft arm strength, and thinner... | 07/27/1999 |
| 5558238 | Freight railway car slackless drawbar assembly A slackless drawbar assembly connecting adjacent ends of a pair of freight cars together. Such assembly includes a first pair of vertically disposable rear draft stop members and a first pair of radially opposed front draft stop members engageable with an... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5547089 | Slackless drawbar assembly utilizing a ball and race assembly A slackless drawbar comprising a female member with one end engaging an end of a car body center sill and another end extends outwardly from the center sill end. A cavity formed in such other end defined by inner surfaces of the back wall, top wall and pa... | 08/20/1996 |
| 4480758 | Railway coupler arrangement A railway coupler arrangement which eliminates the conventional yoke strap, thereby enabling a larger draft gear to be employed in the coupling without increasing the overall size of the sill. The invention also provides a novel assembly for facilitating ... | 11/06/1984 |
