Automatic coupling for model rail vehicles
AssigneeGeorg Utz AG
InventorHanspeter Boeniger
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Abstract
A coupler for rail vehicles of a model railway is attached to the end of a vehicle along substantially the longitudinal central axis of the vehicle. The coupler is provided with a coupling carrier which has at its free end a coupling plate acting as a buffer. In the coupled condition of railway vehicles, these coupling plates abut against each other and coupling hooks are positioned behind the coupling plates to retain the vehicles in coupled relationship.
Claims10
An automatic coupling particularly for model rail vehicles comprising a coupling carrier disposed along substantially the central longitudinal axis of a rail vehicle and having an end extending axially outwardly of an end of the rail vehicle, a coupling plate on the axially extending end of the coupling carrier, and a coupling hook resiliently mounted on said coupling carrier and having an end protruding axially beyond said coupling plate, said coupling hook having a portion on said protruding end extending into the outline of said coupling plate, said coupling hook portion resiliently engages the rear side of a like coupling plate of a second rail vehicle in a coupled position in such a manner that said coupling plate is in face-to-face abutment with said like coupling plate at all times to avoid any gap between coupled coupling plates of two rail vehicles.
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