US1519463A - Angle bar - Google Patents

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Dec, 16; 1924.- 1,519,463

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Patented Dec. 16, 1924.

UNITED STATES FRANCIS E. MCINTIB-E, OF IMEGHENRY. KENTUCKY.

ANGLE BAR.

Application filed July 7, 1924. Serial No. 724,671.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Farmers E. Moln'rinn, a citizen of the United States, residing at McHenry in the county of Ohio and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Angle Bar of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to railroad rail joints and more particularly to chairs or connectors therefor.

The object of the invention is to provide a boltless angle bar for this purpose which may be quickly applied and removed and which eliminates all low connection of the rails and which will so unite the rails that all possibility of them being accidentally released is prevented.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in. the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of this improved joint shown applied;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a detail perspective View of the end of one of the rails constituting a part of this invention;

Fig. 5 is a transverse section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 6 is a detail perspective view of a portion of one of the angle bars constituting a part of this invention; and

Fi 7 is a perspective of one of the latch members used in connection with the joint.

In the embodiment illustrated two rail ends 1 and 2 are shown arranged in longitudinal alinement and designed to be connected. Each of these rail ends is provided. on both faces of the web portion 3 thereof with longitudinally alined spaced lugs numbered 4, 5, 6 and 7 in Fig. 4. Four of these lugs are shown but obviously any desired number may be employed. The end lugs 4L and 7 have their upper faces longitudinally grooved as shown at 8 and which are designed to receive locking parts of the latches 20 shown in Fig. 5 and hereinafter more fully to be described.

The intermediate locks and 6 have their upper faces substantially flush with the upper faces of the end blocks 4L and 7 and inclined slightly to facilitate their insertion in sockets 31 formed in the angle bar 30 one of which is arranged on each side of the rail ends to be connected and span the joints between them. These angle bars are exactly alike and hence one only will be described in detail.

These angle bars 30 are substantially L shaped in cross section and the base member 32 thereof is equipped on its inner face with a longitudinally extending groove 33 to form a seat for the rail base 3. The base 32 is equipped with a plurality of spike holes 34.- to receive the spikes 35 which pass also through apertures 22 in the latch members 20 and securely fasten the angle bars together with the latches to the ties T. The upright portion 36 of the bar 30 has a shoutder 37 formed on its outer face near its upper edge through the upper wall of which are formed openings 38 to receive the hookshaped catch members 25 of the latches 20, said hook-shaped catches being designed to enter the grooves 8 in the lugs 1 and 7 which are made integral with the rail web 3.

The inner face of the upright member 36 of the bar 30 is provided below the shoulder 37 with a plurality of sockets 39 shaped and positioned to receive lugs t, 5, 6 and 7 on the rail end. The two end sockets have openings in their upper walls as shown at 38 which communicate with the groove 8 in the end lugs at and 7 to permit the hookshaped catches 25 of the members 20 to be inserted through the openings and enter said grooves.

The members 36 are of a width sufficient to fit between the rail base 3 and the head of the tread portion 3 thereof as is shown clearly in Figs. 3 and 5, the upper edges of said members 36 bearing against the lower faces of the rail head.

The latches 20 are constructed as shown in detail in Fig. 7 and each comprises a base plate 21 of a width corresponding to the width of the base 32 of the angle bar 30 and which is designed to overlie said base 32 with the aperture 22 in plate 21 registering with one of the apertures 34 in the base 32. The front edge of the plate 21 is provided with a depending flange 23 which when the fastener is applied abuts the outer edge of the base 32 as is shown clearly in Fig. 5. At the inner edge of the plate 21 is an upstanding flange 24: of a width corresponding to the distance between the base 32 and the upper face of the shoulder 87 of the angle bar 30 and which is designed to lie flat against the face of the member 86 below said shoulder. A depending hookshaped catch 25 is carried by the upper edge of the flange 24 on the inner face thereof and is here shown. in the form of an L shaped catch which is designed to enter the opening 38 and be engaged with the grooves 8 in the lugs at and 7.

In the use of this rail chair the rail ends 1 and 2 are placed in endwise abutting relation as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The angle bars 30 are then placed one on each side of the rail Web 3 with the grooves 33 of sa d bars fitting over the edges of the rail bases. When so positioned and properly adjusted longitudinally the sockets 39 in. the inner face of the member 36 of the angle bar will register with the lugs on the rail end, said lugs entering said sockets and being interlockingly engaged therewith. bars are so positioned they will obviously lock the rail ends against longitudinal or relative vertical movement and are held in this position by means of latches 20 four of which are used with each bar 30 with their hook-shaped members 25 passing through the openings 38 and engaged with the grooves 8 of the end lugs on the rail ends. After these locking members have been so positioned spikes 35 are driven through the apertures 22 therein and through registering apertures 34 in the bases 32, said spikes entering the ties and securely connecting the bars in operative position.

From the above description it will be ob vious that when this improved rail joint is applied and the parts connected up in the manner set forth, the ends 1 and 2 will be securely locked together and cannot be released until the spikes 35 are withdrawn and When the- The combination with alined rail ends.

having laterally extending lugs on the webs thereof, some of said lugs having recesses in their upper faces, bars having socketsto lit over said lugs, some of said sockets having openings in the walls thereof, to correspond with the recesses in the lugs, and latch members for passing through said openings and engaging said recesses whereby the bars are securely located to the rails.

The combination of a pair of rail ends arranged in longitudinal alinement and each having laterally extending spaced lugs-on the webs thereof, some of said lugs having recesses therein, angle bars having grooves to receive the base flanges of the rails and provided on the-r inner faces with sockets to receive the lugs on the rails, some of said sockets having openings in their upper walls, catch members mounted on said bars and having depending hooks for insertion through the openings in the sockets and adapted to engage the recesses in the lugs, said latches and bars having registering spike holes and spikes for extending through said holes to secure said members to the ties. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afliXed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANCIS E. MOINTIRE. Witnesses:

BESS MGINTIRE, ARTHUR STEVENS.

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