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8136457 Side bearing for a railroad car truck  
A side bearing for use in a railroad car truck includes a cage, a resilient element within the cage, and a cap engaging an upper end of the resilient element. The cage has a bottom surface and an...
8061698 Geometric shaped side bearing pad  
A geometric shaped side bearing pad includes a top and a surface extending an angle θ towards the top, wherein the bearing pad has a geometric shape and a non-linear spring rate which levels out a ...
7874254 Device for the secondary suspension of a car body in a rail vehicle  
A device for the secondary suspension of a body of a rail vehicle, the device comprising a spring element which is between the body and a bogie and to ensure at least one raised transport level for...
7802524 Constant contact side bearing assembly with improved cap machining for a railcar  
A constant contact side bearing assembly includes a housing, a cap and an elastomeric resilient compressible element mounted within the interior chamber. The exterior surface of the cap wall has a...
7784410 Constant contact side bearing assembly for a railcar  
A constant contact side bearing assembly for a railcar having a bolster with an upper surface and a walled receptacle upstanding from the upper surface of the bolster. An inner surface of the...
7549379 Railway freight car side bearing  
A long travel constant contact side bearing for railway cars provides better handling characteristics, achieving improved tracking and curving through use of various combinations of features. The...
7546807 Constant contact side bearing  
A long travel constant contact side bearing for railway cars provides better handling characteristics, achieving improved tracking and curving through use of various combinations of features. The...
7527003 Railroad freight car sidebearing  
An improved side bearing for railway cars is provided that achieves improved tracking and curving by the limitation of rock of the railway car. The side bearing comprises a base with a generally...
7503264 Constant contact side bearing assembly  
A side bearing assembly for a railway vehicle includes a cage, a cap coupled to and moveable relative to the cage, and an insulator disposed between the cage and the cap. The railway vehicle...
7338034 Elastomeric spring  
An elastomeric spring including an elongated elastomeric body defining a longitudinal axis for the spring and having first and second longitudinal ends. An outer surface of the elastomeric body...
7325499 Constant contact side bearing assembly for a railcar  
A constant contact side bearing assembly configured for insertion into a walled receptacle provided on an upper surface of a railcar bolster. The side bearing assembly includes a housing assembly...
7275487 Constant contact side bearing assembly for a railcar  
A constant contact side bearing assembly configured for insertion into a walled receptacle on an upper surface of a railcar bolster. The constant contact side bearing assembly includes a housing...
7261043 Articulated railway bogie connector  
An articulated railway bogie connector 10 is shown comprising a male connector component 12 and a female connector component 14. The articulated connector 10 is adapted to pivotally mount to a...
7121212 Ride control constant contact side bearing arrangement  
A long travel constant contact side bearing for railway cars provides better handling characteristics, achieving improved tracking and curving through use of various combinations of features. Such...
7044061 Railroad car energy absorption apparatus  
An elastomer spring element arranged in operable combination with structure for inhibiting localized heat deterioration of the elastomer spring element.
7025002 Railway bogie bolster for an articulated wagon  
A bolster 14 for a bogie of an articulated railway wagon is shown including supports for constant contact sidebearers in the form of two pairs of brackets such as 26A and 26B being integral with...
6708624 Side bearing with multi-purpose mounting points  
A railway truck side bearing with multi-purpose mounting points for securing the bearing cage to a railway truck bolster, such that one of the mounting points can serve a dual function of locating...
6644214 Constant contact side bearing  
A side bearing provides constant contact between a truck bolster and a railway car body. The side bearing includes a base member having a central portion mounted on top of the bolster. The base...
6581527 Adjustable side bearing for a railcar  
A side bearing for a railcar having a car body and a bolster. The side bearing includes a top member adapted to be located adjacent the car body of the railcar. The top member includes a downwardly...
6360674 Vehicle  
On a railway vehicle with a car body and a truck with an undercarriage, the car body is supported on the truck by means of connecting devices. To achieve increased operating safety even in the...
6341422 Method of manufacturing a railroad car apparatus  
The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing an energy absorption apparatus including an elastomeric spring for a railroad car. The method involves the step of creating a...
6273002 Rail vehicle with a vertical support actuator  
A rail vehicle equipped with a support actuator of variable vertical length mounted between a vehicle body and a running gear located underneath. In order to maintain an operational supporting...
6205933 Support for a vehicle body on a chassis  
A support for a car body on a chassis, in particular on a truck of a rail vehicle. A support comprises a fluid-actuated piston-cylinder unit arranged between car body and chassis, and a rocker...
6148735 Light weight gondola car  
A light weight gondola car having side walls constructed of a plurality of upper and lower sheets with a longitudinal stiffener being formed from lower portions of the upper and lower sheets. A...
6148734 Elastomeric bearing with softening spring rate  
A railway car side bearing includes a lower housing member, an upper housing member spaced apart from the lower housing member, and an elastomeric spring member interposed between the upper and...
6092470 Railroad car side bearing with thermal insulator  
A railroad car side bearing is disclosed. The railroad car side bearing includes a housing, an upper member arranged in spaced relation relative to the housing, an elastomeric spring disposed...
5960719 Railway car truck yaw control device  
A railway car yaw control device includes a housing mounted on the upper surface of a truck bolster with an engagement member biased upwardly from the housing into engagement with a depression...
5950544 Rail vehicle  
A rail vehicle, includes an air-suspended body having an underside, an air spring having a base point and an internal air pressure, and cars supporting the body. The body rests on the cars and...
5806435 Side bearings for truck bolsters  
A constant contact spring bearing for use with a railway car truck bolster is provided. Greater design flexibility and installation tolerances are available because a longer travel spring, with...
5749301 Multi-rate vertical load support for an outboard bearing railway truck  
A constant-contact load-bearing assembly for a railcar truck bolster and operable against a complementary body bolster bearing and biased to continuously contact the body-bolster bearing to...
5746136 Dynamically stable, lightweight railcar support system  
A freight railcar undercarriage constant-contact sidebearing arrangement provides a load force transfer mechanism with a more direct or less redundant force transfer path between the railcar body...
5682822 Railway car side bearing  
A railway car truck side bearing includes a housing mounted on the upper surface of a truck bolster with an engagement member biased upwardly from the housing into engagement with a depression...
5671682 Sway brace with sprung support and supplementary and emergency spring  
The invention relates to a sway brace on rail vehicles. The aim of the invention is to find a solution in which the effort and expense needed to produce the sprung sway braces can be reduced and...
5601031 Constant contact side bearing  
An improved side bearing for installation between a railcar body and the bolster of the railcar track, said side bearing having an open cylindrical housing with a mounting plate, a top cap for...
5570640 Yaw damper for railway cars  
A yaw damper for railway cars comprises a pair of rotary hydraulic units connected to the laterally extending truck bolster of a railway truck assembly on opposite sides of its central pivot...
5454330 Railway truck side bearing  
A side bearing for a railway truck and car body assembly including one or a plurality of elastomeric bearing elements, confined at given locations in a side bearing carrier and vertically extended...
5438934 Lightweight, improved performance truck  
A railcar suspension assembly at each end of a railcar eliminates the use of a car body bolster and allows payload forces to be carried at railcar side sills into a cross-extending box-like...
5351624 Bogie for high-speed rail vehicles  
A bogie or truck for high-speed rail vehicles or railway cars includes an H-shaped bogie or truck frame, primary springs cushioning the bogie frame, and a lateral bolster being movable relative to...
5315934 Constant contact side bearings with spring biased sliding wedges  
Constant contact side bearing support of a rail car body on a multi-axle rail car truck is provided for the purpose of restraining truck hunting and controlling car rocking. A bearing receiver or...
5207161 Side bearing arrangement for multi-unit railroad cars with different side bearings on adjacent car ends sharing a common truck  
A multi-unit railroad car has adjacent ends of adjacent car units carried upon a shared truck and interconnected by an articulating coupling having a female part attached to one of the car units...
5195438 Height compensation device for railway truck  
A height compensation device for a railway truck having at least two pairs of rail engaging support wheels. The height compensation device is secured at opposed ends of a truck bolster and...
5174218 Self-steering trucks with side bearings supporting the entire weight of the vehicle  
A vehicle truck embodying articulated subtrucks or steering arms having a plurality of wheelsets, with steering arm interconnections establishing coordinated steering motions of the wheelsets, the...
5170718 Railroad freight car with well for stacked cargo containers  
A multi-unit articulated railway freight car defining a container well in each of the several units, with container support members attached to the side sills of each unit to support standard...
5138954 Freight railcar truck and bolster for outboard support of car body with side bearings located entirely outside of the sideframes for receiving the entire vehicle weight  
A three piece freight railcar truck with a truck bolster having distal ends that extend outward of the truck side frames to beneath the sides of a rail car body and the bolster ends have seats for...
5109776 Gondola type railway car with snug fitting center plate arrangement  
A railway car comprising a body and supporting truck the body having a rigid pin extending into a close-fitting socket in the truck bolster and the car body and truck bolster having close contact...
5086707 Self adjusting constant contact side bearing for railcars  
A constant contact side bearing or railcar trucks utilizes wedges or rollers to adjustably separate opposing and converging surfaces of a base member and a vertically biased cap member.
5048427 Railway truck assembly with side bearing height adjuster  
In a truck assembly for a railway vehicle wherein the assembly has a truck frame defined by opposed side frame sections and a transom section extending transversely between the side frame sections...
5036774 Long-travel side bearing for an articulated railroad car  
An articulated railroad car, which includes an articulated connector, rail truck and car body units, has at least one standard short-travel railroad car side bearing which is designed to permit...
5000097 Self-steering railway truck  
A vehicle truck embodying articulated subtrucks or steering arms having a plurality of wheelsets, with steering arm interconnections establishing coordinated steering motions of the wheelsets, the...
4986191 Railway vehicle whose weight is distributed on four axles which are steerable relative to the body  
The invention relates to a railway vehicle comprising two sets of two axles which are steerable relative to the body. The load of the body is applied in the vertical plane of each axle at two...
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