Bissel truck

Named after Levi Bissell bissel is a fairly simple and commonly used variant, a wheelset - salmon bites - mostly to store a steam locomotive curve movable.

Description

The bissel a uniaxial bogie is used, the pivot pin is moved along the longitudinal axis of the vehicle. Therefore, the wheel can not only rotate around the vertical axis, but is swung out to analog and radially to the side, what is necessary for steam locomotives, as the position is already set on the track here by the drive and Kuppelradsätze. To join the bissel in driving, a return spring or a counter steering is fitted.

Also, some older electric locomotives, such as the Swiss SBB Ae 4/7, the German DR Class E 95, had Bisselgestelle if the driving axles in the main frame and were not arranged in bogies.