US722175A - Rail joint and fastening. - Google Patents

Description

PATENTED MAR. 3, 1903.

T. H. DAVIES.

RAIL JOINT AND FASTENING.

APPLIGATION FILED OGT.13, 190Z NO MODEL.

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THOMAS H. DAVIES, OF DUQUESNE, PENNSYLVANIA.

lRAlL JOINT AND FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,175, dated March 3, 1903.

Application filed October 13, 1902. Serial No. 127,016- (No model.)

To (tZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. DAVIES, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Duquesne, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail Joints and Fastenings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in rail joints and fats toners, and has for its object to provide means whereby two rails may be secured in position without the aid of the ordinary bolts passing through the webs of the rails and whereby the rails and fastening therefor may be socured to a metallic tie.

Briefly described, my invention comprises a chair comprising two members or sections having overlapping tongues which are apertured to receive the bolt which fastens the two members or sections together and also extends into the metallic cross-tie. Each of these sections or members of the chair carry integral fish-plates, which engage the rail to hold the latter in position, the rail resting in the chair upon the saddleplate mounted therein and preferably held against longitudinal movement by engagement with the bolt which secures the overlapping tongues of the members or sections together.

The above construction will be hereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims, and in describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a cross-sectional view of the rail, with myimproved fastening in position, showing a portion of the tie in longitudinal section. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, showing the fastening in top plan. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the saddle-plate. Fig. 4: is a like view of the bolt which secures the two sections or members of the chair together and also holds the saddle-plate against longitudinal movement.

As stated, it is one of the objects of my invention to construct a rail-fastening which may be readily secured to a metallic tie. To this end I will employ a tie 1, which may be in the form of a channel-beam, I-beam, or other structural shape which will permit of the bolting of the fastening means thereto.

The chair comprises two sections or members 2 and 8, substantially identical in form, the section or member 2 having an overlapping tongue 4, which rests upon the underlying tongue 5, carried by the section or member 23 of the chair. The fish-plates of the two sections or members are adapted to firmly engage the upper face of the rail-base, the rail 7 resting upon the saddle-plate 8, which is mounted in the chair and has depending side flanges 9, which engage in the recesses or seats 10 provided therefor in the respective chair sections or members. The overlapping tongues 24 and 5 of the chair sections or members are provided with registering apertures to receive the securing pin or bolt 11, provided with a head 12, which rests in the re cess provided therefor in the overlapping tongue at. This bolt or pin 11 carries a short stud 14 above the head 12, which engages in the seat or recess 15, provided therefor in the underneath face of the saddle-plate 8, so that the saddle-plate may be held against longitudinal movement independently of the chairsections. The bodies of the chair-sections are provided with openings, whereby the bolts 16 may be passed through the upper face of the tie and through these openings and rigidly held by' the nuts 17 for fastening the chair securely to the tie.

To place the chair in position, the sections or members thereof 'will be first joined together by a bolt 11, the saddle-plate placed in position to the chair, and then slipped on the end of the rail and moved upward into position over the tire, where it is securely fastened by the bolts 16 and nuts 17. The saddle-plate rests upon the bolt 11, and the rails rest upon the saddle-plate. The bolts are securely held in position, and as the bolts 11 extend through the upper faceof the tie they tend to also assist in securing the chair in position on the tie. The depression of the saddle-plate caused by the weight of the train thereon is provided for by the groove or recesses 10 in the chair sections or members.

It will be noted that various changes may ICO be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A rail-fastening and chair comprising two chair sections or members each provided on the inner edge with a tongue, said tongues adapted to overlap and provided with registering apertures, a bolt or pin restingin said apertures and provided on its head with a stud, a saddle-plate resting on said stud and having flanges extending into the grooves provided thereforin the chair sections or members, integral fish-plates carried by said chair sections or members to engage the rail, and means for securing said chair sections or members to the tie, substantially as described.

2. A rail joint and fastening comprising two chair sections or members having overlapping tongues on their inner edges, said tongues provided with registering apertures, a bolt or pin engaging in said apertures and provided on its upper end with a stud, a saddie-plate arranged between the chair sections or members and provided with arecess to receive the stud of said bolt or pin, jaws carried by said sections or members to engage the rail-base, and means for securing said sections or members to the tie, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS H. DAVIES.

Witnesses:

JOHN GRAEBING, J r. E. E. POTTER.

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