A SINGLE STANDARD DESIGN COUPLER FOR CONVENTIONAL FREIGHT CARS

A coupler is illustrated and described which is an improvement over the standard type E 60 rigid and E swivel couplers. It is hoped that the coupler designed by Symington Wayne, will be adopted as a single standard E coupler for conventional freight cars. The coupler has a controlled swivel coupler assembly which permits maximum angularity of 15 degrees. At all angularity beyond 4 degrees, a seat compresses the draft gear, which returns the coupler to the 4 degree position, when the lateral force is removed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Technical Proceedings from 1964 Railroad Engineering Conference.
• Corporate Authors:

  Symington Wayne Corporation

  2 Main Street
  Depew, NY  United States 
• Authors:
  • Tarbox, I F
• Conference:
  • Technical Proceedings from 1964 Railroad Engineering Conference.
• Publication Date: 1964-9-24

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: p. 18-24

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Couplers; Design; Freight cars; Gears; Railroad cars; Technology
• Uncontrolled Terms: Draft gears; Lateral dynamics
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Design; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00039516
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Tech Proc
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 8 1994 12:00AM