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US 8,894,158 B2Granted
Unitized brake assembly
AssigneeNew York Air Break Corporation
InventorsEric C. Wright, Dan Rowland
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to brake control systems for the control of air brakes on rail vehicles. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a unitized brake assembly including a pipe bracket coupled to a combined brake cylinder-empty/load reservoir and a control valve mounted on the pipe bracket.
Claims20
A unitized brake assembly for operating the brakes on a rail vehicle, comprising:
- a pipe bracket including at least a brake cylinder port, a brake pipe port, a reservoir port, and control valve ports;
- a control valve mounted on the pipe bracket and having a plurality of ports mated with the control valve ports on the pipe bracket;
- an empty/load device mounted to the pipe bracket;
- a combined brake cylinder-empty/load reservoir having ports and having at least one mounting flange configured to mount the unitized brake assembly directly to the rail vehicle;
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- the pipe bracket being mounted on and supported by the combined brake cylinder-empty/load reservoir, the brake cylinder port of the pipe bracket mating with a first of the ports of the combined brake cylinder-empty/load reservoir, and the at least one mounting flange being the only mounting of the unitized brake assembly to the rail vehicle.
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A unitized brake assembly for operating the brakes on a rail vehicle, comprising:
- a pipe bracket including at least a brake cylinder port, a brake pipe port, a reservoir port, control valve ports, and empty/load ports;
- a control valve mounted to the pipe bracket and having a plurality of ports mated with the control valve ports on the pipe bracket;
- a brake cylinder mounted to the pipe bracket and having a port mated with the brake cylinder port on the pipe bracket;
- an empty/load reservoir having an empty/load reservoir port mounted to the pipe bracket and having a port mated with the reservoir port on the pipe bracket;
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- an empty/load device mounted to the pipe bracket and having a plurality of ports mated with the empty/load ports on the pipe bracket.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.