LADING TIE ANCHOR

摘要

A lading tie anchor assembly for a railway car comprises a C-shaped retainer to be welded to the car frame and having a concave spherical surface engaged by a convex spherical surface of a trunnion the neck of which extends through the slot in the retainer with an endwise extending bifurcated section between the furcations of which one corner of a triangularly shaped link is pivoted. The link has a lading tie receiving slot along its side opposite the one corner the outer side of which is convexly curved and the ends are semi-circular.