Patents Assigned to South African Inventions Development Corporation of Administration Building
  • Patent number: 4735149
    Abstract: A railway bogie or a vehicle is so suspended to axleboxes on a plurality of wheelsets that each wheelset can yaw about a center of yaw, move laterally and move vertically relatively to the frame of the bogie or vehicle. Each axle box has a pair of radially opposed arms extending vertically and links extend from the arms in opposed directions laterally to the plane containing the axis of the axle. The links are ball jointed to the arms and also at their other ends. One link is connected to the link on the other side of the frame via a mechanism transmitting motion across the frame. Such a mechanism may involve a beam pivoted to the frame, bell cranks connected by struts, a torsion bar with arms projecting from it or hydraulic conduits between links which are hydraulic piston and cylinders. The mechanism may be repeated on the other side or the links on that side may simply be jointed to the frame. The purpose of the mechanism is to inhibit longitudinal movement of the center of yaw of each wheelset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1988
    Assignee: South African Inventions Development Corporation of Administration Building
    Inventors: Herbert Scheffel, Harry M. Tournay, Klaus Riessberger