Patent ID: 7513376

Claim:
A central buffer coupling for rail-mounted vehicles comprising: a coupling shaft arranged to be vertically pivotable on a vehicle body of a rail vehicle by means of a linkage supporting a coupling head; and a device for horizontal resetting to center at its free end; wherein the device for horizontal resetting to center includes: a center position guide following a horizontal pivoting movement of the coupling shaft around a vertical pivot axis; and actuating means for positioning the center position guide together with the functionally-connected coupling shaft at predefined positions or into any position of a given range of pivoting; wherein said center position guide is tensionally-locked to said actuating means by a center position coupling which transfers a restoring moment of said actuating means to said center position guide, whereby the tensionally-locked connection is disengaged upon exceeding of a definable critical impact/tractive force exerted longitudinal to the coupling shaft and transferred by same; wherein said center position coupling has at least one outer transfer element arranged on said center position guide and at least one on said actuating means, and at least one further middle transfer element arranged therebetween; and wherein the outer transfer elements respectively engage with the middle transfer element in such a way so as to be able to transfer a restoring moment of said actuating means to said center position guide.