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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. 17, 1988
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jack R Long, St. Charles, IL (US);
Stephen W Becker, Downers Grove, IL (US);
Assignee:
National Castings, Inc., Cicero, IL (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B61F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1051994 ; 105228 ; 213 57 ;
Abstract
A combined center plate/center filler construction for the underframe of a railway car is provided with sloped, corner circumferential sections at the upper portion of the center plate to allow for the complete welding of the center plate to the undersurfaces of a pocket-receptacle of the underframe, so that one continuous welding operation may be performed. The upper portion of the center plate has four corner positioning projections the upper horizontal surfaces of which are coplanar with the horizontal plane containing the joinder of the center plate to the center filler.