TRAILER-TRAIN DRAW-AND-COUPLED GEAR Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC B60D1/06 

FIELD: transport engineering; railless vehicles.

SUBSTANCE: proposed trailer-train draw-and-coupler gear designed mainly for passenger cars has ball head consisting of two parts interconnected by pin with lock, lower part being made integral with bracket of draw-and-coupler gear of car and provided with boss, and the other is installed for movement in trailer drawbar body being provided with mating cavity. Boss of lower part and cavity of upper part of ball head are made in form of truncated tetraheadral pyramid and are provided with coaxial channels accommodating axially spring-loaded pin with flat for engagement with ball lock installed in vertical plane of said boss in lower part of ball head.

EFFECT: improved reliability of draw-and-coupler gear of trailer-trains.

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