US92833A - Improved railway-kail joint - Google Patents

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GRANVILLE JARVIS, OF GRAFTON, WEST VIRGINIA.

Letters Patent No. 92,833,1latezl July 20, 1869.

IMPROVED RAILWAYR'AIL JOINT.

The Scheulg'referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

. To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, GRANVILLE E. J Anvrs, of Grafton, in the county of Taylor', and State of Vest Virginia, have invented a new and improved Railroad-Joint and TrackBrace; and I do hereby -declare that the ibllowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making a part of this specitication, in which- Figures 1 and 3 larelongitudinal sections, representing different forms of the device. l

Figure 2 is a horizontal section, representing the form shown in l.

Figure 4 is an end view representing the form shown in iig. 3.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheap, and durable brace, adapted to be fastened to the cross-ties, so as to press against the outerV side of the rail, and support it at the joints and elsewhere, and at the saine time to hold the rail in place, and prevent itsv 'by bolts b l).

The shoulder Cl is provided with projecting spurs c c, which extend through the rail and serve to hold it in position.

To allow of the expansion and contraction of the rail, the slots through which the spurs extend are made oblong.

Figs. 3 and 4 represent a simpler and cheaper form of brace than the above.

As here represented, the whole brace is struck up from a single tlat plate of' iron.

' The iron is first cut to the proper size and shape; four (more or lessslits are then made in the end of it, as seen at a a a a. the central tongue 'e thus fomned is bent up; the two e' e', adjacent to it, are bent down, and the ends of the two tongues o o, at the corners of the plate, are slightly bent, as seen at o; .the plate is then drilled for the spikes, its outer end is slightly bent to make it lit theV ties, and the device is ready for use. It is attached to the rail and ties in the same manner as that first herein described, and as will be clearly understood from g. 3.

The object of' the tongues e e is (like the shoulder G1) to press against the' side of the rail and support it both laterally and vertically, while the tongues c o enter the lateral slots in the rail and hold the latter in posi.- tion, as above described.

The ends o o are bent down so as to form hooks,

which, when the plateis in place, come against the inner side of therail and hold it from settling or bending inward. Y

These ends may be left straight at first, and maybe -bent down against the inner side ofthe rail by the tracklayers.

The same construction may obviously be adopted in connection with that form of my device seen in figs. 1 and 2.

Having thus described my invention,

- What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article ofmannfacture, a railroad-track brace NVitnesses CHAs. A.'PnT'rrr, S. C. KEMON.

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