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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:
May. 19, 1981
Filed:
Sep. 04, 1979
Applicant:
Inventor:
Walter C Dilg, Elma, NY (US);
Assignee:
Dresser Industries, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
213 72 ; 213 / ; 213 69 ; 213 71 ;
Abstract
A rotary railway car coupler has a shank with a butt end portion for mounting to a coupler yoke and a head end portion on its opposite end portion. A coupler head has a guard arm side portion, a knuckle side portion and a knuckle mounted therewith for cooperative connection with another mating railway car coupler. The shank has on its head end portion a mount for rotatably mounting the coupler head. A mount within the coupler head rotatably connects the coupler head and the coupler shank for rotation of the coupler head relative to the shank.