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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4466546 | Bottom shelf coupler with anticreep protection means This invention relates to a railway car coupler having an improved anticreep protection assembly so as to prevent inadvertent uncoupling during movement of the railway car along a track. The improvement comprises the provision of a chamfered locklift conn... | 08/21/1984 |
| 4363414 | Type-E railroad car coupler head A railroad car coupler includes a Type-E coupler head which contains a vertical lock chamber. Disposed in the chamber is a lock which may be raised from a lower locking position to an intermediate lockset position. At lockset, a knuckle pivotally carried ... | 12/14/1982 |
| 4084705 | Lock for a railway vehicle coupler In a railway vehicle coupler, the lock includes a leg portion depending from an upper lock body which is solid. The rear part of the upper lock body has a substantially vertical planar surface or stepped planar surfaces across the most rearwardly-extendin... | 04/18/1978 |
| 4079842 | Uncoupling device for rotary dump cars An uncoupling device for rotary dump cars in which the car couplers are of the bottom operating type, wherein at each end of the car the uncoupling mechanism is made of the same type, and comprising both the rotary and non-rotary couplers of the car being... | 03/21/1978 |
| 3972421 | Car coupler A knuckle type railway car coupler is provided with an improved lock within the coupler head to assure that during a knuckle closing operation the coupler lock will drop from an upper unlocking position to full locking position relative to the knuckle.... | 08/03/1976 |
| 3971479 | Railway car coupler This invention relates to a railway car coupler of the knuckle type and provides an improvement in the operation of a standard E coupler during a coupling operation. In particular, it concerns the provision of a lock lifter toggle which will assure droppi... | 07/27/1976 |
