Interlocking slackless drawbar assembly for railway freight car and an interlocking mechanism therefor

摘要

An interlocking mechanism (10) positioned intermediate first and second end portions of a drawbar member portion of a slackless type drawbar assembly (20) utilized in coupling adjacently disposed ends of a pair of railway freight cars together in a substantially semipermanent fashion. Such interlocking mechanism (10) includes a first elongated member (18) engageable at a first end thereof to an end of a first male connection member (22). A first at least one plate like member (24) is disposed at a second end of the first elongated member (18) of such interlocking mechanism (10). There is a first elongated slot (26) formed through such first at least one plate like member (24). A second elongated member (28) is engageable at a first end thereof to an end of a second male connection member (30). A second at least one isate like member (32) is disposed at a second end of this second elongated member (28) of such interlocking mechanism (10) and a second elongated slot (34) is formed through such second at least one plate like member (32) which is positioned in alignment with such first elongated slot (26) formed through the first at least one plate like member (24). There is a plate like connection member (40) disposed in the first elongated slot (26) formed through such first at least one plate like member (24) and the second elongated slot (34) formed through such second at least one plate like member (32) for connecting such first elongated member (18) of the interlocking mechanism (10) to the second elongated member (28) of such interlocking mechanism (10). IMAGE