Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation

Other

James Wesley Sugg

A Gary Bowden

Matthew P Jarusinski

Martin Petzoldt

Rick Atherton

John Bennett Goodloe

Jason Gardner

A track pad assembly for a continuous track vehicle includes a track plate and a polymer pad. The track plate includes a plate body having a tread surface, and one or more mesh arrays attached to the tread surface of the plate body. The polymer pad is attached to the mesh array(s) and to interstitial areas of the tread surface defined by cells of the mesh array(s), e.g., by press bonding in conjunction with an adhesive. The polymer pad may be made of an elastomer such as hardened rubber.

Vehicle track pad assembly and method

Brake system back plate having thermal management features

A vehicle brake system is provided that includes (or is formed from) a back plate configured to support a composite pad, at least one conditioning insert coupled to the back plate and configured to contact a surface of a wheel during a braking event and thereby to condition at least a portion of the surface of the wheel, and fins coupled with the at least one conditioning insert and configured to conduct heat generated by contact of the at least one conditioning insert with the at least the portion of the surface of the wheel away from the at least one conditioning insert.

Brake systems having back plates with thermal management features

Brake shoe with thermal management features

A consumable beverage dispenser is provided having a collapsible beverage container, a valve assembly, and a flexible tube or straw. The collapsible beverage container has at least one opening and the valve assembly is secured to the container at the opening. The valve assembly includes a flexible diaphragm disposed across the flow path such that beverage flow is permitted only outwardly from the container. The flexible tube extends outwardly from the valve assembly. When a user exerts sucking action on the end of the flexible tube, beverage is made to flow from the container out through the one-way valve assembly and into the flexible tube. As beverage is withdrawn, the container collapses and, when the user stops drinking, the flexible diaphragm closes to prevent air and back flow from entering the container. In one embodiment, the flexible tube is slidable within the valve assembly between an open and a closed position. In the closed position, the flexible tube secures the flexible diaphragm to the valve seat and thereby prevents fluid flow through the valve assembly. In the open position, the flexible tube is spaced from the flexible diaphragm and thus beverage can flow through the valve assembly and out through the flexible tube in response to sucking action exerted on the end of the flexible tube by a user.

Consumable beverage dispenser with one-way valve

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Pinehurst, NC, United States of America

James Wesley Sugg