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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 1998
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1996
Joseph L Gagliardino, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Jeffrey D Wurzer, Glenshaw, PA (US);
Peter Scott Mautino, Verona, PA (US);
McConway & Torley Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Abstract
An elongated light-weight, cast draft sill mountable at the end of a center sill of a railway car body, and to which a railway car truck is pivotally mountable, the cast draft sill having a generally hollow, elongated rectangular body, with a pair of elongated, parallel side walls extending perpendicularly from an elongated top wall and further including a draft pocket adjacent to the forward end adapted to receive a coupler yoke and associated draft gear, and a light weight center plate portion which is mateable to a railway car truck spaced from the rearward end of the cast draft sill. The unique center plate portion comprising a generally cubic center plate pocket defined between a pair of spaced and parallel center plate pocket end walls, extending perpendicularly between the parallel side walls of said draft sill, and a floor wall member forming a lower wall of the center plate pocket having a cylindrical periphery extending downwardly from an underside of the draft sill, and having a circular outer face with an aperture axially disposed through the circular outer face to receive a king-pin of the railway car truck.