CENTERING TRABECULA OF RAILWAY VEHICLE COUPLER (VERSIONS) Russian patent published in 2010 - IPC B61G7/12 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to railway transport and concerns centring devices for railway car couplers. Centering trabecula contains body (1) with the rest pad (2) in the middle part of which the grip (3) is located, and hook-shaped supports (4) at body ends to suspend the trabecula on thrust socket using pendulum gear, where the rest pad of trabecula is executed above top surface of grip (3) providing coupler bar contact with trabecula in the point of trabecula suspension on pendulum gears. The rest pad of trabecular is made convex. In the second version, the trabecula structure provides use of changeable wearproof inserts (7, 12) on the outer surfaces of which projections (13, 18) and dowels (7, 9) are made to fix it in slots (14, 19) or holes (10, 11) made in side walls of hook-shaped supports and trabecular rest pad respectively. Level of upper rest pad of insert is above surface of grip.

EFFECT: increase in operation reliability and lifetime of the part which fact facilitates railway traffic safety, and decrease in repair expenditures for part reconditioning or replacement.

6 cl, 7 dwg