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Hood device for coupling cars

CA 1281939 C · Owner: Japan National Railways · Inventors: Ohta, Yoshio; Tabata, Koji

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Disclosed is a car coupling hood device including a pair of hoods provided between a pair of car bodies to be coupled together, each of the hoods having one end secured to an adjacent car body and an, intermediate frame for coupling the other ends of the hoods together. The hood device incorporates a plate member coupled to the intermediate frame and provided in either the ceiling portion or the bottom portion of the hood device, or in both portions, and regulating means for preventing the movement of the plate member by the engagement therewith when both the car bodies are displaced relative to each other in the lateral direction thereof by more than a predetermined value.

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  • Granted March 26, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended March 26, 2008.
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FiledNovember 19, 1986
GrantedMarch 26, 1991
Term endedMarch 26, 2008
Patent numberCA 1281939 C
Classification (IPC)B61D17/22 +2 more

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19871990199319961999200220052008Application filedNov 19, 1986Patent grantedMarch 26, 1991Term endedMarch 26, 2008

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