Abstract: A coupling support for a central buffer coupling of a rail vehicle includes first and second holding plates to be secured to the body of the rail vehicle. The coupling support has a base plate and a transverse bar disposed between the holding plates. The transverse bar is resiliently coupled to the base plate and is disposed above the base plate. First and second pivot levers are disposed on the base plate such that the pivot location of each pivot lever is disposed below the transverse bar, and the pivot locations are connected to the base plate. Each upper portion of the pivot levers is connected to the transverse bar by an articulated connection such that a movement of the transverse bar away from the base plate is restricted by the articulated connections and a movement of the transverse bar towards the base is allowed by the articulated connections.

Abstract: A spring assembly includes a substrate, an inner coil spring, and an outer coil spring arranged outside the inner coil spring. One of the inner coil spring and the outer coil spring includes an end turn portion, the end turn portion forming a support wall for an other of the inner coil spring and the outer coil spring.

Abstract: A cylindrical mounting apparatus includes: a cylindrical mount having an elastic body elastically connecting an inner and outer sleeve disposed in mutually spaced-apart relation; and a bracket independent of the cylindrical mount and having a pair of support plates opposed to each other with a spacing therebetween. The mount is interposed between the pair of support plates and fastened to the bracket by a mounting bolt extending through a bore of the inner sleeve across the support plates. Two positioning protrusions protrude from an inside surface of one support plate toward the other, and a mounting plate is disposed on one axial end of the inner sleeve extending diametrically. A recessed engaging portion of the mounting plate is brought into engagement with the positioning projections to place the mounting plate in a predetermined position about its center axis on the support plate.

Abstract: A mounting for a power unit (4) for motor vehicles, comprises a support (12) and a support plate (13) fixed thereto, which may be detached in the case of a collision, whereby the support plate (13) is connected to the support (12) in a number of places (14). According to the invention, a power unit mounting may be achieved which guarantees a steady deceleration, whereby a separating device (25; 55; 65) is provided, which separates the support plate (13) from the support (12). The separating device (25) can be a part of the support plate (13) or fixed thereto and is forced between support plate (13) and support (12) in the case of a collision.

Abstract: Suspension apparatus for a mobile vehicle having a frame and a plurality of wheel units adapted to travel on rails. In a preferred form, the apparatus includes a housing member that is rigidly attached to the frame and corresponds to a wheel unit. The housing member has an enclosed end and a downwardly-extending open end. The apparatus further includes a wheel unit support assembly, a portion of which is telescopingly received within the housing member. The wheel unit support assembly is adapted for attachment to a wheel unit and is biased out of the housing member by a spring. A travel-limiting pin arrangement is provided to limit the axial travel of the wheel unit support assembly relative to the housing member to a predetermined range of axial travel.

Abstract: The present invention provides a single axle railway truck. An axle box with journal bearings is provided at each axle end. Each axle box includes a spring support from which two springs extend upwardly wherein their upper ends are received in spring retainers. The spring retainers extend from a lower surface of suppport beams and, accordingly, the support beams are themselves supported by the springs. A cylindrical dampening device has its lower end connected to the axle box and its upper end to a bracket extending outwardly from the support beam. A traction rod, or alternatively a shock absorber, extends from a side of the axle box to a mounting bracket near an end of the support beam.

Abstract: The specification discloses an improved railway car truck providing increased dampening for high volume rail cars by the use of bolster pocket wear plates in combination with five different types of springs in the spring baskets of the railway car trucks. The five different types of springs include either a single outer coil, or inner and outer coaxial coils, with the outer coils being of different lengths to provide multiple effective spring rates action which place the critical frequency of the car trucks at two different speeds, rather than a single speed, and makes the amplitude of resonance occurring at the critical frequency much smaller than would otherwise occur, to prevent the car truck from resonating in such a way as to rock the rail car excessively. These types of spring arrangements also prevent excessive vertical bouncing of railway cars.

Abstract: A secondary suspension for a rail vehicle truck is arranged between a suspension support connected to the car body of the vehicle and a spring support. It comprises several spring groups, whose spring elements each have a set of coil springs held by an upper and a lower spring plate and a metal-rubber spring element and are individually interchangeable. The spring elements are designed so that replacement of the spring groups can be carried out with the truck installed on the vehicle and without using a pressure stand or a lift. This goal is achieved by the fact that there are at least two diametrically opposed holder claws for spring tension holders on the upper and the lower spring plate of the spring groups, to which the spring tension holders are attached when the spring elements are compressed.

Abstract: A mounting member is disposed on one end of a mechanical spring to prevent vibrations from a truck being transmitted into a car body for transmitted to the spring and car body if mounted below the spring. The mounting includes a pair of elastomeric rings, with one of the rings providing vertical compliance and the other providing lateral compliance between the truck and car body.

Abstract: A low rate soft primary system for a railway truck includes a pair of longitudinally disposed assemblies on opposite sides of a journal bearing for carrying a wheel-axle unit. Each of said assemblies includes a plurality of laminated rubber strips separated by relatively thin metal strips oriented parallel to the vertical axis of the journal bearing. The layers of the laminated assembly form angles opening towards or away from the journal bearing somewhat in the shape of chevrons. The assemblies provide relatively high spring rates for lateral and longitudinal loads and low spring rates for vertical loads.

Abstract: A railroad vehicle truck having a single wheelset includes a pair of spaced side frames. The side frames are joined into a rigid unit by a pair of transversely positioned crossbars. The crossbars are positioned one each on each side of the wheelset which has its axle ends journaled in bearings carried in turn in a pedestal jaw centrally formed in each side frame. Projecting inwardly from each end of the side frames is a bracket which forms part of a set of upper pivot connections with an upper end of a swing arm. A laterally positioned crosstie assembly is joined through a pair of spaced end caps with a lower end of each swing arm to form a set of lower pivot connections. Each crosstie assembly end cap has a pair of spring cups containing a set of springs which operatively support a body of the railroad vehicle thereabove.

Abstract: A railroad vehicle truck having a single wheelset includes a pair of spaced side frames. The side frames are joined into a rigid unit by a pair of transversely positioned transom cross bars. The cross bars are positioned one each on each side of the wheelset which has its axle ends journaled in bearings carried in turn in a pedestal jaw centrally formed in each side frame. Projecting inwardly from each end of the side frames is a bracket which forms part of a set of upper pivot connections with an upper end of a swing arm. A laterally positioned crosstie assembly is joined through a pair of spaced end caps with a lower end of each swing arm to form a set of lower pivot connections. Each crosstie assembly end cap has a pair of spring cups containing a set of springs which operatively support a body of the railroad vehicle thereabove.

Abstract: A side frame for a single axle railway truck is provided. The side frame has top and bottom and spaced side walls. The side frame has a generally hollow cross section, with an upper middle portion, downwardly sloped intermediate portion and lower outer portions. The top and bottom walls have decreasing thickness inwardly from the end of the outer portions.

Abstract: One or more of the springs supporting the bolster of a railway car truck is a two stage spring group comprising an outer coil and an inner coil disposed within and coaxial with the outer spring. A retainer is provided to hold the inner spring in relation to the outer spring. The retainer has helically arranged lugs or a flange in engagement with the outer coil at the lower end, and the retainer also includes a support surface for supporting the lower end of the inner coil.

Abstract: This disclosure concerns a spring system between the body of a railroad car and the wheel supporting truck. The spring system includes a coil spring for absorbing vertical forces and includes a rubber layer spring for absorbing lateral forces, the latter resulting from lateral impact and movement of the railway car along curves in the track. The last mentioned rubber spring is coaxial with and placed inside the first-mentioned coil spring, thereby minimizing the vertical height of the spring system. A pair of spring washers extends laterally between the car body and the truck. The spring washers are held apart by the coil spring. The rubber spring is divided between a first section above the upper spring washer and the undercarriage of the car and a second section beneath the lower spring washer and the frame of the truck. The spring washers have a plurality of troughs for receiving a plurality of sets of springs.

Abstract: A dual rate spring device particularly adapted for use in a suspension system of a railroad car truck includes a vertically mounted light duty spring means positioned, for example, between a side frame of the truck and a load carrying bolster of the truck to support the bolster when in a lightly loaded condition. Positioned around the light duty spring means is a shorter heavy duty spring which with the light duty spring supports the bolster when in a heavily loaded condition. To insure that the device functions properly under varying load conditions, a lower end of each spring is connected by a spring retainer.

Abstract: A supportive spring system particularly adaptable to vehicles such as railway cars that are operated with widely variable loads from empty to fully loaded condition. Such a spring system utilizing a plurality of helical spring units comprises multiple nested springs with primary springs having greater axial length than one or more secondary springs so that the primary springs alone provide the necessary supportive capacity to yieldingly support the weight due to an empty or slightly loaded car. When cars are heavily loaded, the secondary springs also become supportive and all sets of springs act in unison. To prevent the secondary springs from bouncing and becoming misaligned due to the vehicle's movement on the track, the lower coterminating end coils of the primary and secondary springs are yieldingly bonded together by an elastomeric material.

Abstract: A helical compression spring having a partially progressive characteristic which has a cylindrical portion of constant wire thickness coterminously and integrally joined to a truncoconical portion whose coil of greatest coil diameter is disposed away from the cylindrical portion. The truncoconical portion has inconstant wire thickness with the coils of largest wire diameter being positioned between coils of smaller wire diameter.

Abstract: A stabilized railroad car truck has a side frame with a window, a bolster extending into the window, a stabilizer pocket on each side of the bolster and a friction element in each pocket. The spring means constitute coaxially positioned spring assemblies supporting each friction element provide generally constant column pressure from each friction element onto its associated side frame wearing area from no load up until approximately half-load, with linearly increasing column pressure from approximately half-load up until full load.

Abstract: A recoil assembly for track type vehicle includes a housing having a preloaded spring assembly mounted therein. The housing is an open sided housing having a pair of ends with aligned apertures formed therein. The spring assembly includes a pair of spaced apart seat members confining a pair of compression springs therebetween with adjustable means in between the seat members for compressing the spring. One of the seat members includes a projection extending into the aperture at one end of the housing and the other seat includes means receiving the extension of a bushing extending through the other aperture. This bushing and aperture arrangement retains the spring assembly within the housing. The open side of the housing is provided with a fixed bar and a removable bar for removably confining the spring within the housing in a functional position.