Stabilized railway freight car truck
View Patent ↗A stabilized railway car truck consists of two side frames and a bolster. The bolster has laterally opposite ends, each end extending into and supported within a side frame opening on a spring group. The stabilized railway car truck also includes a transom extending into supporting contact with each sideframe by a hinge assembly. The spring group is supported at each transom end. The hinge assembly includes a pin arrangement that allows one sideframe to move vertically with respect to the other sideframe.
1. A railway freight car truck comprising:
a pair of parallel sideframes,
a transom extending laterally between the sideframes,
a spring group supported by an the side frames,
a bolster extending laterally between the sideframes and supported by the spring group,
each sideframe including a transom support,
a hinge assembly as a component of each transom support,
an end of the transom connected to each hinge assembly of each transom support,
the transom includes two horizontal columns and a web joining the columns,
and a pivot hinge at an end of each transom horizontal column,
each hinge assembly of each transom support on each sideframe comprises an adapter to join with the pivot hinge of the transom to allow one sideframe to move vertically with respect to the other sideframe,
a horizontally disposed pivot pin assembly joining each transom column pivot hinge to one sideframe hinge assembly adapter, and
wherein each of the transom column pivot hinge and the sideframe hinge assembly adapter include horizontal openings that are aligned to receive a pivot pin as a component of the pivot pin assembly.