US1494229A - Means for preventing the spreading of rails - Google Patents

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- H. E. FAREWELL MEANS FOR PREVENTING THE SPREADING 0F RAILS Filed Nov 9, 1923 H 5 FARE/WILL,

fiatented ay 13, 1924.

ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MEANS FOR PREVENTING THE SPREADING OF RAILS.

Application filed November 9, 1923.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARLEY EDGAR FARE- WELL, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the village of Cedardale, in the county of ()ntario, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Preventing the Spreading of Rails, of which the following is the specification.

My invention relates to improvements in means for preventing the spreading of rails and the object of the invention is to devise a simple means insertable between the rails of a railway track to hold them definitely in position on the ties so that there will be no danger of such rails spreading under any circumstances and it consists essentially of a bar like plate divided into two portions, interlocking means between the portions and means formed integral with each portion and bearing against the outer face of each rail of the track, as hereinafter more particularly explained.

Fig. 1 is a plan view of my device showing it applied to a railway tie and rails, the rails being illustrated in section.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through my device, railway rails and the upper portion of the tie.

In the drawings like characters of refer ence indicate corresponding parts in each figure.

1 indicates a railway tie. 2 and 3 are the rails of a railway track. 4 and 5 are two portions or members of my rail spacing device provided with broadened ends 6 and 7 forming beds forv the rails 2 and 3. The portions 6 and 7 are provided with orifices 8 and 9 located at the inside of the bottom flange of the rail and the orifices 10 and 11. located at the outer sidz'e of the bottom flange of the rail. The orifices 8, 9,, 10 and 11 are provided for the insertion of spikes 12, 13, 14 and 15 which extend down through such orifices into the tie and engaging the bottom flange of the corresponding rail. Each member 4 and 5 is provided at its outer end with a rib-like boss 16 formed inte gral therewith and located centrally thereof and provided with a notched recess 17 into which the outer portion of the bottom flange of the rail fits. The vertical inner edge of Serial No. 673,825.

each portion 16 bears against the vertical flange of the rail and the upper edge of the portion 16 is provided at its extreme inner end with a slightly recessed inner portion 18 into which the lower portion of the ball of the rail fits, as is clearly indicated in Figure 2.

By this means a firm support is provided against the outward movement of the rail. The inner end of the member 5 is provided with a tongue 19 terminating in a head 20 which is preferably in the form of a segment of a circle. The inner end of the portion 4 is provided with a correspondingly shaped orifice 21 into which the head 20 fits, such orifice being provided in the extension neck 22- into which the tongue 19 fits. By this means the portions 4 and 5 are firmly interlocked together against longitudinal movement. The portions 4 and 5 are also each provided with lateral notches 23 and 24 in one edge thereof and with lateral notches 25 and 26 in the opposite edge thereof through which spikes 27, 28, 29 and 30 extend into the tie.

From this description it will be seen that I have devised a very simple device which will securely hold the rails of the railway track in definite spaced relation so that they cannot move under any circumstances from such definite spaced position, even though the tie itself were partially destroyed.

What I claim as my invention is.

A device for preventing the spreading of rails, comprising a plate like bar member adapted to be supported longitudinally of the railway tie and beneath the rails of a railway track and divided intermed-iately of its length into two portions, a headed tongue extending inward centrally from the inner end of one member and a correspondingly formed and located recess in the inner end of the other member into which the tongue and head fit when the inner ends of the two portions of the plate like bar member are in an abutting position, means for securing the bar member to the tie, and means extending from the ends of the bar member adapte to bear against the outer face of each track rail.

HARLEY E. FAREWELL;

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