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US 3,945,327 AGranted
Suspension device for side members on axle-boxes for railway carriages or similar appliances
AssigneeSociete Anonyme Usines Emile Henricot
InventorPaul E. Henricot
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Abstract
The invention pertains to a suspension device of side members on axle-boxes for railway carriages, said side members having openings therein with a central bead, encompassing two lateral housings and the axle boxes being provided, at the front and at the rear, with a collar which forms a bead, rubber rolls being pressed in between the side housings of the side members by aforesaid collars, adaptors being fitted between said rolls and said boxes.
Claims1
A suspension device for a railway carriage having a side frame and a generally cylindrical axle box, comprising:
- said side frame having a circular portion spaced from and surrounding said axle box and provided with an inwardly extending circumferential central rim and inwardly facing circumferential recesses on opposite sides of said rim;
- said axle box having axially spaced circumferential shoulders;
- an adaptor comprising semi-cylindrical portions, releasably secured together, surrounding said axle box and having inner peripheral ledge portions engaging said shoulders to prevent axial displacement of said adapter relative to said axle box;
- said adaptor having outwardly extending circumferential rims adjacent the axial ends thereof;
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- circular rubber beads, between said adaptor and circular portion of said frame, seated in said recesses and being held on said adaptor by said circumferential rims.
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