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US 4,263,852 AGranted
Side shiftable railway car
AssigneeThe Maxson Corporation
InventorPhilip J. Kramlinger
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Abstract
A side shiftable railway car in which the bolsters resting on the wheeled trucks engage a movable center plate on the underside of the car. The center plate may be slid sideways along retaining flanges welded to the underside of the car and locked in place by heavy keeper pins adapted to be inserted and extracted manually with levers.
Claims7
A side shiftable railway car comprising in combination:
- a main car frame member;
- A plurality of wheeled trucks with bolster member means connected thereto, said bolster member means having a suitable center bowl;
- a center plate assembly for connecting each of said trucks to said main frame member, said assembly comprising guide means mounted transversely to said main car frame on the underside of said frame, and further comprising a sliding plate movable transversely to said main frame in said guide means, said assembly also including locking means on said guide means to fix the sliding plate in selected transverse positions in said guide means, said sliding plate having a center plate affixed thereto, said center plate adapted to engage said center bowl in said bolster member means.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.