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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 1977
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1976
Osvaldo F Chierici, Elmhurst, IL (US);
Holland Company, Lombard, IL (US);
Abstract
An uncoupling lever arrangement for railway cars equipped with standard draft gear cushioning including an uncoupling lever assembly comprising a handle section and a lock lifter section, each including an elongate bar formed from tube stock of quadrilateral transverse cross-sectional configuration. The handle section has a U-shaped handle affixed to one end of its bar at the outboard end of the lever assembly, which handle is mounted in the car body bracket, and the lock lifter section bar has a lock lifter rod member affixed to the inboard end of same that is formed with the usual hook eye formed for conventional application to the coupler lock lifter. The lever assembly bars are of complementary configuration whereby one end of one of the bars is received in the other end of the other bar to support the bars, and thus the lever assembly, in their operative position from the car body bracket and the coupler lock lifter. The parts are arranged such that the contacting portions of the lever assembly handle and the car body bracket have less static friction than the contacting surfaces of the lever assembly bars, whereby the assembly is adjustable in length on application, but remains of set length after installation without the assembly bars being fixed together, with sidewise shifting of the lever assembly that is occasioned by coupler side swing being accommodated at the car body bracket.