. American engineer and railroad journal . © © —o -i Follower Plates. XI \T *is\ 4 Simons Draft Gear for Steel Cars. tcntion, but particularly the last two. The center sills are Ibeams, through the webs of which slots are cut to receive thefollower plates and the draft springs, the springs being cen-tered to bring the stresses directly upon the webs of the sills,indicated in the drawing. The webs are too narrow to givesuflicient bearing area for the followers, and angles are rivetedto Ihem to increase the bearings, and short angles are rivetedto the bottom flanges of the center sills in order
. American engineer and railroad journal . © © —o -i Follower Plates. XI \T *is\ 4 Simons Draft Gear for Steel Cars. tcntion, but particularly the last two. The center sills are Ibeams, through the webs of which slots are cut to receive thefollower plates and the draft springs, the springs being cen-tered to bring the stresses directly upon the webs of the sills,indicated in the drawing. The webs are too narrow to givesuflicient bearing area for the followers, and angles are rivetedto Ihem to increase the bearings, and short angles are rivetedto the bottom flanges of the center sills in order to compensatefor the amount of material cut away from the webs. Mr. Simons uses double draft springs and from his remarksbefore the M. C. B. Association at Saratoga in 1898 it is evidentthat he appreciates the necessity for increasing the spring re-sistance of draft gear. He directed attention at that time tothe fact that the draft of long trains of heavily loaded cars oflaige capacity caused the draft gear to close up solid instead o
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