Wheel set for rail vehicles

US4637646A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Clouth Gummiwerke Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Hermann Ortwein · Bocholt, DE
• Ottmar Krettek · Aachen, DE
• Johannes Nicolin · Aachen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 16, 1984
• Grant date: Jan 20, 1987
• Expiry date: Nov 16, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B60B37/08
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A wheel set for railway vehicles, especially high speed railway vehicles in which hollow shaft sections on a shaft are connected by an elastic coupling for limited relative angular displacement of the wheels. The elastic coupling is of the deformable elastomeric, viscoelastic or hydraulic type.