TRACTION VEHICLE Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport; locomotive traction devices.

SUBSTANCE: proposed traction vehicle contains main frame, automatic couplers, body, cab two-stage spring suspension, two three-axle bogies with frames, wheelsets with axle boxes, traction motors, traction reduction gears, tie-rod and carriers. Main frame is provided with central brackets passed between axles of each traction bogie and equipped with crossmembers connected for rotation around vertical axle and hinge-connected by ends through tie-rods with axle boxes of bogie wheelsets. Side brackets are secured on frame, being hinge-connected with brackets of bogie axle boxes. Axle boxes of said wheelsets are connected with frames of corresponding bogies by carriers.

EFFECT: reduced overall dimensions of locomotive, particularly, its cantilevers, possibility of negotiating small radius curve tracks.

4 cl, 3 dwg