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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7946229 | Rail road car truck A rail road freight car truck has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transversely relative to the side frames. The mounting interface between the ends of the axles and the sideframe pedestals allows lateral rocking motion of t... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7255048 | Rail road car truck with rocking sideframe A swing motion rail road freight car truck is provided that does not have lateral underslung cross bracing in the nature of a transom, a frame brace, or lateral rods. The truck has a truck bolster and a pair of side frames, the truck bolster being mounted transverse... | 08/14/2007 |
| 5417163 | Railway bogie with frame having selective deformability Sole-bars (1) bear on axles by elastic suspensions (12) with frictional damping. The bolster (18) bears by elastic blocks (32) on the lower side of a window (24) through each sole-bar. Each elastic block (32) bears on a face (31) of the sole-bar which has... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5351624 | Bogie for high-speed rail vehicles A bogie or truck for high-speed rail vehicles or railway cars includes an H-shaped bogie or truck frame, primary springs cushioning the bogie frame, and a lateral bolster being movable relative to the bogie frame, receiving a coach or car body and being c... | 10/04/1994 |
| 5331902 | Truck boltser with laterally wider friction show pocket and mechanism for lateral travel of the friction shoe Prior art railcar bolsters and friction shoe assemblies were constructed such that the friction shoe was tightly restrained within the friction shoe pocket. The present invention utilizes a friction shoe sled for promoting lateral sliding of the friction ... | 07/26/1994 |
| 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 |
| 5174218 | Self-steering trucks with side bearings supporting the entire weight of the vehicle A vehicle truck embodying articulated subtrucks or steering arms having a plurality of wheelsets, with steering arm interconnections establishing coordinated steering motions of the wheelsets, the truck also having elastic restraining devices for stablili... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5107773 | Railway trucks A railway truck has a unitary cast steel frame with a primary wheel-set-to-frame suspension formed by chevron shaped metal/elastomeric pads between the journals and the frame pedestals, a secondary frame-to-bolster suspension formed by rectangular elastom... | 04/28/1992 |
| 4817536 | Rail bogie for convertible rail-highway vehicle A rail bogie for a convertible rail-highway vehicle system having an overall height of approximately thirty inches so that the bogie can fit under the rear of a semi-trailer body, all necessary braking equipment, except for air hose connections; a structu... | 04/04/1989 |
| 4706571 | Self-steering trucks A self-steering railway truck having interconnected steering arms associated with the axled wheelsets and having mechanism for yieldingly resisting yawing motion of the wheelsets including at least two devices, at least one of which provides a relatively ... | 11/17/1987 |
| 3990372 | Railway vehicle articulated truck This application discloses a railway vehicle truck of a general configuration having independently movable side frames, wherein the side frames are provided with resilient connections with the wheel-axle units which allow universal turning movement but su... | 11/09/1976 |
