RAILWAY CAR BOGIE FRAME SIDE AND RAILWAY CAR BOGIE Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; railway cars. SUBSTANCE: bogie has two transversely spaced frame sides with wheels axle installed in between. Each frame side has horizontally arranged upper and lower members and vertical bridge with cutout for bolster connecting upper and lower members. Upper member, bridge and lower member form in section an H-beam section. Bogie frame side has solid horizontally arranged longitudinal elongated upper member with axle box pedestal horns at the ends, solid longitudinally elongated horizontally arranged lower member and vertical bridge with front vertical and rear vertical columns and cutout for bolster in between. EFFECT: reduced mass of frame sides with simultaneous decrease in concentration of stresses in critical points of railway car bogie frame sides. 13 cl, 11 dwg