Support housing for lightweight drawbar assembly

摘要

A support housing for supporting a slackless drawbar coupler assembly within a center sill of a railway car, in which the slackless drawbar assembly has a drawbar pivotally attached within a spool by a pivot pin, the support housing including a generally rectangular three-dimensional body having a generally rectangular, three-dimensional cavity in an underside surface, a forward end wall and a pair of generally parallel side wall portions with a pair of opposed and axially aligned apertures through the generally parallel side wall portion of the cavity, each aperture adapted to receive a disk pin insertable therethrough and also insertable through one each of a second pair of opposed and axially aligned apertures through parallel side walls of the spool, such that said spool is pivotal within said cavity on the axially aligned disk pins.