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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 11, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Ernst Katzer, Munich, DT;
Assignee:
Knorr-Bremse GmbH, Munich, DT;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
188165 ; 105 77 ; 188 / ; 308 / ;
Abstract
A rail brake magnet unit on a vehicle comprising separate rail brake magnets or a plurality of rail brake magnets connected together by a frame is vertically movable between a lowered operative position and a raised inoperative position. On approximately the four corners of the upper portion of the magnet unit there are provided inclined slide surfaces each of which engages a plane surface of a corresponding number of resilient buffers mounted on the vehicle structure when the rail brake magnet unit is in its raised inoperative position.