FRICTION DRAFT GEAR Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC B61G11/14 

FIELD: transportation.

SUBSTANCE: friction draft gear comprises a housing having a bottom and a side wall, jointly defining the inner housing space open from one end, where a friction spacer block is located, consisting of a pressure cone, friction wedges, stationary friction plates, movable friction plates equipped with ribs, a base plate with projections, resting on a supporting and return device, which, in turn, rests on the housing bottom. The movable plates are equipped on one of their ribs with a support flange of a width h to support the corresponding projection of the support plate. The support plate is equipped with at least one such projection with a width H, wherein the ratio H>h, where H is not less than 1.1*h, is to be carried out.

EFFECT: increasing the efficiency of the friction draft gear.

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