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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1992
Filed:
Sep. 26, 1990
Wajih Kanjo, Lockport, IL (US);
Michael G Hawryszkow, Munster, IN (US);
William D Wallace, Chicago, IL (US);
David W Daugherty, Jr, Bolingbrook, IL (US);
Westinghouse Air Brake Company, Wilmerding, PA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus which provides versatility in securing an articulated coupling arrangement to a center sill member of a railway car is provided. Such apparatus includes a bottom wall portion which matingly engages a bottom wall of such center sill member and a top wall portion which matingly engages one of a top wall of such center sill member and a bottom surface of such railway car. A pair of vertically disposed side wall portions are disposed between such top wall portion and such bottom wall portion. Each of such pair of side wall portions have a predetermined configuration which provides such enhanced versatility in securing such articulated coupling arrangement to such center sill member.