Coupler Definition

Coupler Sentence Examples

• The essential change from the link and pin to the automatic coupler is in the outboard end or head of the draw-bar.

• This form of automatic coupler has now gained practically universal acceptance in the United States.

• This body pursued the subject with more or less diligence, and in 1884 laid down the principle that the automatic coupler should be one acting in a vertical plane - that is, the engaging faces should be free to move up and down within a considerable range, in order to provide for the differences in the height of cars.

• In 1887 a committee reported that the coupler question was the " knottiest mechanical problem that had ever been presented to the railroad," and over 4000 attempted solutions were on record in the United States Patent Office.

• The method of constructing the working faces of this coupler is shown in fig.