RAILROAD CAR SIDE BEARING

• Main Authors: GIUSEPPE SAMMARTINO, RICHARD W. PLEGGE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Spanish
• Published: 22.01.2015
• Subjects: BEARINGS; BLASTING; ELEMENTS OR CRANKSHAFT MECHANISMS; ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; FLEXIBLE SHAFTS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVEFUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; HEATING; LIGHTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PREVENTING DERAILING OF RAIL VEHICLES; RAIL VEHICLE SUSPENSIONS, e.g. UNDERFRAMES, BOGIES ORARRANGEMENTS OF WHEEL AXLES; RAIL VEHICLES FOR USE ON TRACKS OF DIFFERENT WIDTH; RAILWAYS; ROTARY BODIES OTHER THAN GEARING ELEMENTS; SHAFTS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL; TRANSPORTING; WEAPONS; WHEEL GUARDS, OBSTRUCTION REMOVERS OR THE LIKE FOR RAILVEHICLES

A railroad car side bearing including a cage, a cap, a lock out insert configured to be removably connected to the cage, and an elastomer element configured to mate with the lock out insert. The lock out insert includes a key that is dimensioned based on a diameter of an interior channel of the elastomer element. Different lock out inserts with different dimensioned keys for different elastomer elements enable a common cage and a common cap to be used with different elastomer elements with different interior channel dimensions, thus reducing the need to have different cages. Se describe un cojinete lateral para vagón de tren que incluye una jaula, una tapa, un inserto de seguro configurado para conectarse en forma removible a la jaula, y un elemento elastomérico configurado para conectarse en forma removible a la jaula, y un elemento elastomérico configurado para acoplarse con el inserto del seguro. El inserto de seguro incluye una llave que esta dimensionada con base en un diámetro de una canal interior del elemento elastomérico. Diferentes insertos de seguro con llaves de diferentes dimensiones para diferentes elementos elastoméricos hacen posible que una jaula común y una tapa común se usen con diferentes elementos elastoméricos con dimensiones de canal interior diferentes, reduciendo así la necesidad de tener diferentes jaulas.