Lighweight railcar truck sideframe with increased resistance to lateral twisting
CA 2174375 C · Owner: Nassar, Rami V. · Inventors: Nassar, Rami V.
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A lightweight sideframe having a solid and open unitary cross-sectional I-beam shape, is structurally improved by strengthening both sides of the sideframe with cross-bracing at each pedestal jaw area. The cross-bracing laterally stiffens the sideframe eliminating the, succeptability to twisting of the I-beam shape when a transverse load is experienced. The increased lateral stiffness at the jaw area also strengthens the total lateral strength of the sideframe, allowing some removal of metallic mass from the sideframe spring seat plate. The improved lateral sideframe strength also contributes to an increase in the threshold speed of truck hunting.
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- Filed April 17, 1996 and granted May 11, 1999. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 17, 2016.
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