Patent ID: 6360906
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: B61G

Abstract:
An assembly to couple and cushion the dynamic loading in a slackless connector for a railway car in the buff and draft directions of travel,said railway cars having a railway-car center sill with a center-sill pocket, said center sill having a longitudinal axis, a front end and a rear end, said front end being open, a coupler mechanism with a coupler shank, said shank having a shank front end and a shank butt end, a slackless coupler mechanism, said shank butt end contacting said slackless coupler mechanism, a pocket casting having an upper wall, a lower wall, a forward end, a rearward end, a rear wall at said rearward end, a chamber, two front-plates each having a generally transverse front contact surface and a generally transverse rear contact surface, and an opening at said forward end communicating between said chamber and said center-sill open front end, said pocket-casting upper wall defining a first pin port and said lower wall defining a second pin port, said first and second pin ports approximately aligned and about transverse to said longitudinal axis, said pocket casting positioned in said center-sill pocket with said pocket-casting opening communicating between said pocket-casting chamber and said center-sill open front end, said slackless coupler mechanism and said shank rear end positioned in said pocket-casting chamber; a draft gear subassembly positioned in said center-sill pocket between said center-sill rear end and said pocket-casting rear wall, means for connecting said draft gear subassembly and said pocket-casting; two front-stops, each front-stop having a generally transverse front engagement surface and a generally transverse rear engagement surface, each said front-stop secured to said center sill in said center-sill pocket, each of said pocket-casting front-plate front contact surfaces contacting one of said front-stop front engagement surfaces and each of said pocket-casting front-plate rear contact surfaces contacting one of said front-stop rear engagement surfaces during buff or draft movement to limit the buff and draft movement of said pocket casting and said coupler shank in said center-sill pocket during said buff and draft movements of said railway car and coupler assembly.