. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . BUTLER DRAW GEcalled the telescoping idea. With thisarrangement the compression of thesprings is accomplished always in astraight line and without reference tothe angle which the drawbar may hap-pen to occupy with reference to thesprings. The strain on the yoke withthis arrangement is tensile only, andonly comes into play when the car is AR ATTACHMENT. though with a range of design suitable to all modern requirements. It is possible with suitable equip-ment to absorb 200,000 lbs. pressure ino
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . BUTLER DRAW GEcalled the telescoping idea. With thisarrangement the compression of thesprings is accomplished always in astraight line and without reference tothe angle which the drawbar may hap-pen to occupy with reference to thesprings. The strain on the yoke withthis arrangement is tensile only, andonly comes into play when the car is AR ATTACHMENT. though with a range of design suitable to all modern requirements. It is possible with suitable equip-ment to absorb 200,000 lbs. pressure inone inch of travel of the drawbar. Thisis equal to a complete absorption of16,666 foot-pounds of energy. This ap-plies to severe shocks, but the design offriction draw gear which the Butler. ^ i^^t^i ^ »;ay] tJ^ /~\ i-\ r\ . o o 000 r^ r-^ ^-^ ^
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