Leaf spring manual release centering device

Claim 1

IN A RAILROAD CAR HAVING A LONGITUDINALLY AND LATERALLY MOVABLE COUPLER MOUNTED IN A SLIDING CENTER SILL WITH CUSHIONING MEDIUM, AND A STRIKER ATTACHED TO SAID CENTER SILL, HAVING AN OPENING THROUGH WHICH THE COUPLER PROJECTS, SAID STRIKER HAVING A HORIZONTAL PART FORMING THE LOWER EDGE OF SAID OPENING UPON WHICH PART SAID COUPLER IS LONGITUDINALLY AND LATERALLY SLIDABLE, AND A BOTTOM STRIKER PLATE, A DEVICE FOR PROVIDING RESILIENT LATERAL POSITIONING OF SAID COUPLER RELATIVE TO THE CENTER LINE OF SAID CENTER SILL, COMPRISING SPRING ACTUATING MEANS DEPENDING FROM THE COUPLER SHANK, AND SPRING MEANS MOUNTED UNDER THE COUPLER SHANK AND EXTENDING ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF AND IN THE PATH OF MOVEMENT OF SAID COUPLER WILL CARRY THE WHEREBY LATERAL MOVEMENT OF SAID COUPLER WILL CARRY THE SPRING ACTUATING MEANS THEREWITH AND CORRESPONDINGLY MOVE AND SPING ACTUATING MEANS AND THAT PORTION OF THE SPRING MEANS IN THE DIRECTION OF TRAVEL OF THE SPRING ACTUATING MEANS, PRODUCING A FORCE THEREIN TO URGE THE COUPLER TO RETURN TO NORMAL COUPLING RANGE.