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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:
Mar. 11, 1980
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1978
Applicant:
Inventors:
James M Herring, Jr, Merion Station, PA (US);
Harry M Russell-French, Ambler, PA (US);
Assignee:
The Budd Company, Troy, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61C / ; B61F / ; B61F / ; B61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
105133 ; 105108 ; 105135 ; 1051 / ; 1051 / ; 1051 / ; 267-3 ;
Abstract
A railway car includes prime movers mounted to a car body directly connected to pairs of gear boxes to drive pairs of axles mounted on a pair of trucks, with direct connections between the gear boxes and the connections being such so as to permit independent removal of the trucks from the prime movers and to facilitate the installation of interchangeable variable speed drives.