US815244A

US815244A - Tie-plate.

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Publication number: US815244A
Application number: US25039305A
Authority: US
Inventors: William J Williams
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1905-03-16
Filing date: 1905-03-16
Publication date: 1906-03-13
Anticipated expiration: 1923-03-13

Description

PATENTED MAR. 13; 1906.

w. Ji WILLIAMS 151B PLATE. APLwATI'bRhLBn MARJB. 1905.

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' of said rails is prevented. presents a pempective view of a with my improved tie-plate a and in dotted lines is shown t 1e e rail occupies upon the UNITED [STATES EQENT No. a 5,214..

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it known that I, a citiz Elyria, in the county have invented a Improvement i lowing is a full reference being had drawings.

The object of this i a strong cheap railw wrought steel, which bed itself thereto and which will for engaging with the fla Figure 1 re railroad-tie plied theret position which th plate.

Fig. 2 represent of the tie-plate, showing ing and holding the rail plate. Fig. form of the invention.

Referring 'sents the plate or atively body, and long slender shar Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed March is, 1905. Serial No. 250.393.

WILLIAM J. WILLIAMS,

n Tie-Plates, of which the folclear, and exact-description, to the accompanying nvention is to provide ay tie-plate, made of will automatically eminto a tie upon which it is placed become thereby i m'rnovably fastened have suitable studs ngesof the rails restiereby the spreading s a perspective view the means for engagin position upon the 3 represents a slightly-modified to the parts by letters, A repre- B represents reledged flanges which depend from the lower surface of said plate an one endthereof to the other.. surface of the plate, over the extend in pa longitudinally-extended slightly elevated above the intervening surfaces a, which depress faces serve as watercourses accumulation of wat surfaces of the plate er between t and rail.

rallel relations from On the upper flanges B, are ribs C, which are ed intervening surto re'vent the e engaging- Near one end of the plate 18 a transverse row of.studs D,

which are into upward from 0 these studs verse plane, while their outer clined, as shown, making longer at their bases than en these tie-plate Wh places are in the on the ties, witht gral with the plate and spring said ribs C.' The inner faces (1 vertical transfaces (1 are inthe studs somewhat at their tops.

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he flanges B running inearest the adjacent end of-the tie. railsare placed scribed, in which case the base with the grain of the ties, the end of each plate on which the studs D are formed is upon the plates with the outer rail-flanges in contact with of the studs. A plurality ribs C for holding the rails down upon the plates. The weight of the passing trains will very soon embed the shafpedged flanges B completely into the woo any movement tieswill be prevented, and the engagement of the rail-flanges with the studs D will prevent any spreading of the rails. Through each of the flanges made a pair of notches b. The purpose of these is to allow the wood of the tie to preserve two continuous cross-ribs thereof beneath the plate, preventing water working in from the ends of the plate, which would rot the tie and rust the plate.

The'described tie-plate is very strong, and it is also cheap, because it can be "rolled from a bar and cut transversely to the proper length. I have invented mechanism for so rolling such bars and propose to make that mechanism the subject of another patent application. k

In Fig. 2 a plate is shown whereon there is additionally a transverse row of studs D, having vertical inner faces. a The be made with both sets of stu s,-

of the rail will resth upon the ribs 0 and/will engage with bot prevent any possible movement of the rails in either direction relative to eachother after en ties, whereby '1n the tie. a

Having described my invention, I i..a1m

the vertical faces of spike-holes E, l are formed through the plates between, the

6o of the plates relative to the B, near their ends, are

sets of studs, and this will efi'ectually the tie plate flanges have become embedd' 1.

1. A tie-plate having on its under side a plurality of extended narrow flanges'having sharp lower edges and notches near the ends of said flanges, longitudinal ribs formed on the upper side of the I vertical faces adapted to engage the foot of the rail.

plate in line. with said angcs, and studs formed near the ends of s are put in their said ribs having inner 2. A tielate having on its under sidea plurality 0 extended narrow flanges having means for securing the plate to the tie. sharp lower edges and notches near the ends 'of said flanges, longitudinal ribs formed on 5 the upper side of the plate in line with said flanges, and studs formed near the ends of said ribs havinginner vertical faces ada ted toengage the foot of the rail, said plate aving openings adapted to receive fastening In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WVILLIAM J. WILLIAMS. Witnesses:

CHAS. C. LORD, W. J. SPEARS.