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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 1984
Filed:
May. 20, 1983
Applicant:
Inventor:
Roger D Meadows, Waynesville, NC (US);
Assignee:
Dayco Corporation, Dayton, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61F / ; B61F / ; F16C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1051 / ; 105189 ; 384422 ;
Abstract
A center plate structure for a railway vehicle is provided which utilizes a polymeric wear-resistant tubular liner disposed in sandwiched relation between a cylindrical outside surface of a center plate of the body of the railway vehicle and a cylindrical inside surface of an upstanding peripheral flange of an associated bolster bowl of a truck of the railway vehicle wherein a continuous uninterrupted metal ring is fixed against a top portion of the inside surface of the flange with the ring serving to engage the top surface of the polymeric liner and prevent vertical cold flow of the polymeric material comprising same from between the cylindrical surfaces.