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US 9,097,508 B2Granted
Method for reconditioning a railcar articulated connector
AssigneeTTX Company
InventorsRichard A. Brueckert, William A. Guess, Donald F. Kroesch
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Abstract
A method for reconditioning a railcar articulated connector is provided. The method comprises the steps of marking a surface of a portion of an articulated connector to divide the surface into sections, pre-heating the surface of a portion of an articulated connector, adding weld to a first section of the pre-heated portion of the articulated connector, and adding weld to a second section of the pre-heated portion of the articulated connector.
Claims14
A method for reconditioning a railcar articulated connector, the method comprising the steps of:
- marking a surface of a portion of a bottom bearing surface of a male portion of an articulated connector to divide the surface into eight wedge-shaped sections;
- pre-heating the surface of the portion of the articulated connector;
- adding weld to six of the eight sections to the pre-heated portion of the articulated connector leaving two opposite sections without weld.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.