enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Railway coupling conversion - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_coupling_conversion

   The European system links to the former Soviet Russian-gauge network, where SA3 automatic couplers are used. Some research has been undertaken to choose an automatic freight coupler compatible with the Soviet one, but owing to widescale replacement cost, no action has been taken to implement the conversion, except for some trial installations.

3. Tightlock coupling - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightlock_coupling

   Type H Tightlock couplers on a California Car cab car with separate air brake and head end power connections. Type H Tightlock couplers are a variety of Janney coupler, typically used on North American mainline passenger rail cars. They have mechanical features that reduce slack in normal operation and prevent telescoping in derailments, yet ...

4. Quick coupler - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_coupler

   There are many variations in the design of quick couplers. The initial divergence is between those that can pick up any of a range of buckets and attachments by clamping onto the mounting pins for the attachment (known as "pin grabbers" or "pin couplers") and those that work only with buckets and attachments designed to suit that quick coupler (known as "dedicated").

5. Rod end bearing - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_end_bearing

   A rod end bearing, also known as a heim joint (N. America) or rose joint (U.K. and elsewhere), is a mechanical articulating joint. Such joints are used on the ends of control rods, steering links , tie rods , or anywhere a precision articulating joint is required, and where a clevis end (which requires perfect 90-degree alignment between the ...

6. Coupling - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling

   Animated Oldham coupler. An Oldham coupling has three discs, one coupled to the input, one coupled to the output, and a middle disc that is joined to the first two by tongue and groove. The tongue and groove on one side is perpendicular to the tongue and groove on the other.

7. Railway coupling - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_coupling

   The Norwegian coupler is found only on narrow gauge railways of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in), 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) or less in Great Britain and its former colonies. For example, it is used on the Isle of Man Railway , the Western Australian Government Railways , in Tanzania , on the Ffestiniog Railway , on the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway ...