. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . al pocket at the side of the coupler. The illustration. Fig. I shows the distorted outline ofthe coupler, head and the position of the locking the coupler head has been cleared out, as .shown inFig. 2 it is possible for it to receive a pin from whicha link or special screw coupling can be suspended aboutthe centre line of draft—within, perhaps, one inch. The 322 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING November, 1925 special screw coupling as shuwn in the illustration It has a forg
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . al pocket at the side of the coupler. The illustration. Fig. I shows the distorted outline ofthe coupler, head and the position of the locking the coupler head has been cleared out, as .shown inFig. 2 it is possible for it to receive a pin from whicha link or special screw coupling can be suspended aboutthe centre line of draft—within, perhaps, one inch. The 322 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING November, 1925 special screw coupling as shuwn in the illustration It has a forged block, or nut, so formed that, atthe closed extremity, it receives the pin from which it ishung in the coupler. The resultant head is heavy, ex-pensive, and appears -to possess many objectional>le fea-tures in its design, apart from the fact that in serviceit has been found hopelessly deficient in meeting serviceconditions, such as vehicles of different draw-bar cannot lie successfully negotiated with the knuckleout as shown. The above describes the most impurlant modification. Fig. 1—Altered Head of A. R. A. Coupler. Lock Removed to Sideto Enable Screw Coupling to be Hung in Centre of the Standard coupler, proposed 1)V com-petitors to date. ()thers have cimtenced themselves withproviding bollards or trunnions to receive pendantlinks, etc., or have pivoted the coupler heads vertically orhorizontally, to allow the ordinary draw-hook to be avail-able when required. In the more numert)us category of loose and separatetransition links, bolts, pins, etc., the drawing. Fig. 4,shows one which has been tried on some of the .State
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