Core assembly in a coupler for a railway vehicle

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A novel core assembly is used in a sand mold for casting a hollow section in a coupler head extending beyond a horn line into a coupler shank of a coupler for a railway vehicle. The core assembly includes head and shank core members having face surfaces each including a recess surface and a projected surface arranged such that the recess surface in the head core receives the projected surface in the shank core. In a similar way the recess, surface in the shank core receives the projected surface in the head core to maintain the head and shank cores in an aligned abutting relation while supported in the sand mold. The face surfaces extend transversely to the coupler shank along a parting …