Abstract: A railroad vehicle end-of-car center coupler includes a telescopic energy absorber comprising a hollow cylindrical plunger in a cylinder having one closed end. The plunger has an aperture in its inner end wall. A perforated metering tube is fixed in the closed end wall by a special fixing arrangement. It projects through the aperture and carries an annular piston head which slides in the bore of the plunger. A floating piston divides the interior of the plunger into a gas space and a liquid chamber. Four direct acting pressure relief valves are mounted in the piston head. Conduits through the tube connect their inlets to respective ones of four axially-spaced ports in the outer surface of the tube so that they all communicate with the annular chamber that surrounds the tube within the plunger when the absorber is compressed and so that they are progressively cut-off from such communication during the final stages of extension of the absorber.

Abstract: Movable buffer stop apparatus (10) for a railway vehicle comprises a stop plate (27) on an arm (21), and a support strut (31) movable angularly relative to the arm (21) by an hydraulic cylinder (33) between raised and lowered conditions of the apparatus (10). The arm (21) and the support strut (31) are mounted on a truck (14) which cooperates with a fixed energy absorbing buffer (35) in a sunken pit (11).

Abstract: A lifting machine boom having two side walls maintained in spaced relationship to each other by a bottom wall and a top wall and a median reinforcing member dividing the interior of the boom into the first and second longitudinally extending chambers. One or more rigid pipes are attached to the median wall and run longitudinally of the boom from locations adjacent the ends. These pipes conduct pressurized fluid to and from one or more actuators carried by or associated with the boom. One said actuator is disposed in the second chamber.