Patent ID: 7281635

Claim:
A housing for a railway car friction-type draft gear assembly for cushioning buff and draft shocks that are usually encountered in such railway car rolling stock during a coupling operation of such railway car to a train consist and during normal operation of such train consist on a track structure, such buff and draft shocks transmitted by a coupler of such railway car, such draft gear assembly disposed within a center sill of such railway car between a pair of front stops and an axially opposed pair of rear stops which are attached to such center sill, said housing comprising: (a) a first end having a predetermined cross-section and a predetermined length and having a portion thereof abutting such pair of rear stops; (b) an end wall engageable with and releaseably secured to said first end and abutting one end of a compressible cushioning element of such friction-type draft gear assembly; (c) a means engageable with said end wall and said first end for securing said end wall thereto; and (d) a second end having a first front portion of a predetermined cross-section and a predetermined length being disposed adjacent said first end and a second front portion extending outwardly from said first front portion and having a pair of first aligned apertures for attachment to such coupler with a coupler key, said second end being axially opposed to said first end and further being in open communication therewith.