US1467682A - Transom draft gear - Google Patents

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sept. 1'1, 1923. 1,467,682

l H. M. vFPI-'LAGER TRANSOM DRAFT GEAR Filed June 14. 1921 o /d u En v N F3.

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HARRY IVI. PFLAGER, F ST; LOUIS, IVIISSOURI, ASSIGNOE TO lCOIYJYIO'JIWIEAIJ'LI-I STEEL COMPANY, OF' ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION `C11?- NEW JERSEY.

TnANsoi/r DRAFT snaai. y l Application med J'u'ne 14, .1921. serial no. 477,530.

VT0 ciZZccwm t may concern; l coupling link such as is used in European Be it known that I, I-IRRY. M.l FFLAGER, practice. `.'Io accommodate this position o a citizen of the United States, residing at lhook l,11, the coupler pin lifting 'and lock- St. Louis,-Missouri, have invented a certain :ing devices are locatedv on the lower face of new and useful Improvement in Transom ythe coupler. The underframe is'reinforced 60 Draft Gears, of which the following is a full, by braces 12 which extend from the end sill,

n clear, and exact description, such as will enimmediately adjacent to buffer block 8, able others skilled in the art to which it apdiagonally and rearwardly to a point adj apertains to make and use the same, reference cent to the connection between the drawbar being had to the accompanying drawings, extension 6 and transom 5, where they are 65 forming part of this specication. preferably attached to similar braces 13 My invention relates to railway rolling which connect transom 5 and end sill 3 at stock and in particular to transom draft points on the latter spaced from buffer gears, and consists in a draft gear and unblock 8.y It will be understood that braces 15 derframe construction adapted for both M. 12 may be secured directly to transom 5, if 70 C. B. standard and European coupling preferred. Similar braces 1li extend from practice. Y the end sill at a point adjacent brace 13 to The objects o my invention are, to prothe side sill 2 adjacent the end of transom 5. vide a transom and associated parts adapted Yielding buffers 15 are mounted on end to be assembled with an M. C. B. coupler and sill 3 in front of their respective braces 13 75 shank and to transmit all of the draft and 11i at each side of buffer 8. stresses therethrough, or to be assembled It will be noted that with this construcwith the usual draft rod and side buffers, tion coupler 10 enables the car to be coupled such as are in common use on European with a similarly equipped car, or with a car railroads. having an M. C. B. coupler only, and to 80 I also desire to provide a coupler element transmit butling and pulling stresses through for such a draft gear which is adapted to shank 9, drawbar extension 6 and the draft cooperate with a similar coupler on the adsprings 7 to bolster 5 and center sills 1. jacent car or with the usual European cou- Or the coupler may be linked to a car pling link on the adjacent car. equipped with European draft rod hooks 85 In the accompanying drawings which and then it will only transmit the pulling illustrate a selected embodiment of my instresses through extension 6. In the latter vention, case, the bufiing stresses will be received by Figure 1 is a plan view of the end'of a buffers 15 and transmitted through braces railway car with my invention applied 13 and 14 to transom 5 at spaced points on 90 thereto. the latter. When so coupled, the arrange- Figure 2 is a vertical longitudinal section ment of the Various diagonal braces enables taken on the center line of Figure 1. them to cooperate in sustaining the draft Figure 3 is a similar detail section which stresses, thereby forming an unusually rigid shows a draft rod and link substituted for and efiicient end construction for the un- 95 the coupler shown in Figures 1 and 2`. derframe. With either coupling arrange The car illustrated is provided with the ment a substantial portion of a buiiing stress usual center sills 1, side sills 2, end sills 3, is transmitted to the bolster at points adand truck 4. The car body .is preferably jacent to the connection of the latter to cenequipped with a cast steel transom 5 and a ter sills 1 which is the most desirable dis- 100 cast steel draw bar extension 6 which forms tribution. a part of the draft rigging assembled with The rear end of coupler shank 9 termitransom 5 by means of suitable connections nates in a portion smallest at its eXtreme and the draft springs 7. end and the forward'end of extension 6 is bui-ling block 8 adapted to support the shank end of shank 9 may be secured by means of 9 of a coupler 10 having an M. C. B. cona key 16. If it is desired to equip the car tour and knuckle. Coupler 10 is preferably for European coupling practice exclusively, made with an integral hook 11 on its upper key 16 may be removed and coupler 10 with 55 face, adapted to be engaged by a standard its shank 9 disassembled from extension 6. 110

The end sill 3 is provided with a central provided with a pocket in which the rear 105 Then-a suitable bearing I7 maybe mounted 1n buffer 8, anda draft rod l`8"inserted therethrough and connected to extension 6.

. I am aware that the particular arrange*-y ment of partsV may be-V varied,` Without def parting from the spirit of my invention and I contemplate those modications in'adapb" spaeed fromthe endy sill',longitudinally. eX-

: 'tending spaced center Lsills yterminatingv at ofl the following Ysignature"this 8th day `thefbolster, a draftgear.' mounted on the bolster adjacent to said" center sills, a center v buffer block on the endsill, sidebu'ers mountedon the end:I sill on opposite'sdes of' the center' 'bulten block,'` struts extending from the'center buffer block diagonally towards the-bolster, and struts secured to the bolster at points near the termination of the center sills and extending and secured to y the end sill adjacent the sidevbuifers.

In testimony whereofI-hereufnto ax my ofJune, 1921.-'

HARRY VPFLAGER.

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