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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6354226 | Lightweight truck bolster having varying wall thickness ribs There is disclosed a light weight truck bolster for railway car trucks. Metal has been removed in the compression and tension members of the bolster near the center bowl. One longitudinal rib is located in each end of the bolster arms and a pair of transv... | 03/12/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6089166 | Bolsters for railway trucks An improvement in cast metal bolsters for railway trucks is disclosed. The bolster has a top wall, a bottom wall and sidewalls. All of the walls have interior and exterior surfaces. Two transverse ribs extend between the top wall and bottom wall and two s... | 07/18/2000 |
| 4901649 | Span bolster assembly A span bolster, for carrying a heavy load of a railroad car body and distributing the load to two four wheel two axle railroad bogies or trucks, is fabricated from steel plate and has top and bottom cover plates, top and bottom reinforcement doubler plate... | 02/20/1990 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 4359003 | Railway car center filler A modular center filler for railway vehicles comprising an inverted U-shaped core member fitted between front and rear cover plates and securely attached to a bottom cover plate to which a center plate is attached. Downwardly extending legs of the core ar... | 11/16/1982 |
| 4353311 | Railway car center plate assembly In accordance with the invention a center filler assembly is inserted into a railway car center sill and is permanently attached to the center sill. The center filler includes longitudinally spaced vertical plates which extend between the walls of the cen... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4353310 | Cushioned railway car center plate assembly In accordance with the invention a center filler assembly is inserted into a railway car center sill and is permanently attached to the center sill. The center filler includes longitudinally spaced vertical plates which extend between the walls of the cen... | 10/12/1982 |
| 4284012 | Railway tank car cradle support A tank car stub sill support structure is provided in which a half ring is attached to the inner end of a stub center sill at each end of the car. The half ring includes a top cover plate which engages the lower half of the tank, and a lower cover plate w... | 08/18/1981 |
| 4257332 | Railway tank car cradle support A tank car stub sill underframe is assembled by welding together a pair of angles to opposite edges of a longitudinally extending curved plate to form a generally channel-shaped section. The channel-shaped section includes a concave top plate and a pair o... | 03/24/1981 |
| 4206710 | Railway car center plate filler arrangement A modular center filler and center plate may be constructed as a unit away from the car and adapted for connection to the center sill webs of a railway vehicle. The center filler has a thick bottom plate which extends beneath the center sill and has pairs... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4128062 | Center brace member An elongated unitary center-sill-and-center-brace member for use with sectionalized railroad car center sills is disclosed herein. The member includes reduced wall portions at each end for telescopic engagement with an inboard center sill section and an o... | 12/05/1978 |
| 4056065 | Rejection feature for center plate A body bolster center filler-center plate assembly having a center plate containing a lower cap and upwardly extending sidewalls which extend into and are secured within a bottom-open pocket formed by center sill sidewalls and shear plates, the shear plat... | 11/01/1977 |
