CRADLE-AND-FRAME CARRIER Russian patent published in 1999 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; transmission of longitudinal efforts from railway car bogie to body. SUBSTANCE: carrier has tie-rod, inner thrust members, support installed in bracket holes, support end face projecting equally over bracket surface, washers mating through their spherical surfaces with support, rubber rings one of which being installed between washer and inner thrust member and the other, between washer and cover plate installed on end part of tie-rod. All parts are held on tie-rod by nuts. Novelty is that support has two hemispheres mating by ring projections with hole and by grooves with bracket surfaces. Hemispheres are provided with channel whose outlets are closed by spherical surfaces of washers over circumference. Channel provide turning of tie-rod. EFFECT: enhanced operation reliability of carrier and rubber rings and reduced influence of carrier onto vertical and horizontal rigidly of bolster suspension. 2 cl, 3 dwg