US1693275A - Combined tie-plate and rail anchor - Google Patents

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Nov. 27, 1928. 1,693,275

E. J. HENGGI COMBINED TIE PLATE AND RAIL ANCHOR Filed Dec. 31, 1926 a? IN V EN T 0R. M 24W M A TTORNEYS.

Patented Nov. 27, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. HENGGI, OF OHARA TOWNSHIP, ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED TIEPLATE AND RAIL ANCHOR.

Application filed December 31, 1926.

clasping the base of the rail and extending beneath the same so as to contact with the side surface of the tie to prevent rail creep. In some types of rail anchors, the portion thereof extending below and transversely of the rail base is bowed or extended downwardly to prevent the anchor riding up on the tie and thus causing rail fracture, but such downwardly extending portions of the anchor tend to hammer the frozen ballast or track bed in winter, thus loosening the rails from the anchors. In the case of anchors unprovided with the downwardly extending portion the tendency of the anchor to ride the tie is marked.

In my improved device the tie plate and the anchor comprise one and the same structure, the tie plate being provided with portions which anchor the rail against creeping.

In the preferred form of myinvention the tie plate is provided with a depending flange which abuts against the side of the tie and thus relieves the spikes, or other element by means of which the tie plate is fastened to the tie, from the thrusts exerted by'the rail under moving trafiic.

Other novel features of construction, and also of arrangement of parts will appear from the following description.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein I have illustrated the best embodiment of the principles of my invention now known to me, Fig. 1 is a top plan view showing the rail anchored by the tie plate and the plate secured to the tie; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3 is also an elevation taken at right angles from Fig. 2.

Referring first to Figs. 1, 2 and 3, 1 represents the cross tie and 2 the rail. The combined tie late and rail anchor is mounted on the tie ansecured thereto as by spikes. Thus Serial No. 158,209.

3 is the plate portion which bears on the tie and is secured thereto by spikes 4 driven through holes in the plate into the tie. 5 is an abutment lip formed on the top surface of the plate and against which one side edge of the rail base bears. At one or more points on the other side of the rail the tie plate is provided with an inturned jaw 6 under which the rail base is forced until the opposite edge of the rail base may be snapped down against the abutment lip 5. The jaw 6 has a wedged engagement with the rail base which prevents relative movement between the tie plate andthe rail longitudinally of the rail.

The jaws 6 may be made by cutting the material of the plate to form a tongue of the metal and bending such tongue upwardly and inwardly, substantially as shown to form.

the gripping jaw.

' The end of the plate'opposite the direction of travel on the rail is provided with a vertically depending flange 7 which abuts against the side of the tie and thus communicates the creeping thrusts directly from the rail to the tie without imposing the same on the spikes or other means whereby the tie plate is attached to the tie.

8 represents spikes driven through holes in the tie plate into the tie with their heads engaging the rail base at the edge which engages the lip 5. 7

It is evident that the rail is anchored to the tie plate and cannot creep without taking the tie with it, which of course is prevented by the embedment of the tie in the ballast.

The combined tie plate and anchor may be rolled with the abutment lip 5 formed on its top surface and the plate then sheared to form one or more tongues which are then bent up to form gripping jaws. Or the plate may be cast, forged or otherwise formed.

It is evident that my unitary device efficiently performs the functions of a tie plate and a rail anchor. This fact results in a marked saving in material to be purchased and the labor costs of the track gang are also greatly reduced.

What I desire to claim is A tie plate consisting of a rectangular metallic plate having an upstanding rib extending between opposite edges, said rib forming an abutment for one edge of a rail base, the rail base the edge of the plate opposite the plate having a slit extending inwardly from rebent portion extending downwardly at the edge facing said abutment and parallel right angles to the body of the plate. 10

to the adjacent edge, the material between Signed at Pittsburgh, Pa, this 28th day of said slit and adjacent edge being bent up- December, 1926. I wardly and toward the abutmentto form en- V gaging means for the opposite sides of the ED'WARD J. HENGGI.

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