FASTENING OF TANK BARREL TO SEMIFRAMES Russian patent published in 2005 - IPC

FIELD: railway transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to design of fasteners of barrels of unitized body railway tank cars. Barrel 1 is fastened on semiframes 5 consisting of bolster 8 with cradle, end beam 7 and center sill. Center sill and barrel are connected by extreme feet 9 and inner feet 10. Extreme feet enclose bottom of barrel though height not less than 1/3 of radius of barrel and they are additionally secured on end beams of semiframes. Inner feet are made with smooth-radius transition from center sill of semiframe to shell. Frame is installed in inner space of barrel in place of end of smooth radius transition of each inner foot.

EFFECT: elastic taking up of longitudinal load transmitted from barrel to semiframes of from semiframes to barrel though extreme feet.

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