Fried. Krupp Huttenwerke Ag

Walter Knorr

Erwin Raquet

Wilhelm Heller

Helmut Licht

Walter Spieker

A wheel of lightweight construction useful as a wheel for a railroad car having a hub portion and a rim portion. The hub portion is connected to the rim portion by a pair of spaced apart opposed concavely shaped wheel discs positioned back-to-back. Each of the wheel discs has a main portion running between the hub and the rim. The main portion has integral therewith at each end thereof an arcuately shaped transitional portion which terminates in an edge. One of these transitional portions contiguously abuts and is affixed to one of two oppositely inclined flanks of the hub. The other of the transitional portions contiguously abuts and is affixed to one of two oppositely inclined flanks of the rim.

Track wheel having a lightweight construction

A rail wheel comprising a wheel rim, wheel disc and a wheel hub wherein at least the wheel rim consists essentially of a steel having the following composition:

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Bochum, Germany

Walter Knorr