US884941A - Fastening for railway-ties. - Google Patents

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No. 884,941. PATENTED APR. 14, 1908. U. M. MAPES.

FASTENING FOR RAILWAY TIES.

APPLICATION FILED APR.1 1. 1907. I

UNITED STATES PTN FFIGE.

CHARLES M. MAPES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FASTENING FOR RAILWAY-TIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed April 11, 1907. Serial No. 367 ,552.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. MAPES, of New York city in the county of New York, and in the State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fastenings for Railway-Ties, and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Fi re 1 is a erspective view of a tie provide with my astening for rails; Fig. 2 is a partial side view, partly in section, 0 one of the rail fastenings in Fig. 1 and Fig. 3 is a plan view of Fig. 2.

The object of my invention has been to provide a fastening for railway ties which shall be simple and cheap in construction and efficient in operation, and which shall protect the tie from being injured by the anges of wheels in case 0 derailment; and to such ends my invention consists in the gasgening for railway ties hereinafter speci- In carrying my invention into practice, I provide a plate A which is ada ted to be seated upon the tie B beneath t e position which the rail C is to occu y, the plate being provided with flanges a t at over-hang the sides of the tie, so that if a wheel escapes from the rail, it will strike said flanges and will not cut into the tie. The plate 18 secured to the tie as by bolts D extending up through the tie and through holes in the plate. The rail 0 is seated u on the plate A and is held in osition by c ips E, which over-lie the rail base on o posite sides, and which at their outer ends, re ative to the rails, rest upon the plate A. The clips E are provided with ownwardly bent portions 6 at their outer ends, each of which portions is received in a slot 1. formed in the plate A. The cli s E are bolted down to the plate A by bol ts F having their heads beneath the late A, and having nuts f above the clips washers G being preferably provided between the nuts and the plate, the washers having their lower surfaces inclined to fit the clips. The bolts F pass through slots H, which-are of suflicient size to permit the head of the bolt to pass, and then the shank of the bolt is moved toward the rail into an extension I of the slot H. The bolt is thus quickly and easily engaged with the plate A without re uiring to be passed through the plate from elow. The slot H and the slot a are separated by a connecting piece K, thus making a much stronger construction than would be the case if the slots H and a merged into each other. The connection K strengthens the side walls of the slots H and the extension I, and prevents their being bent upward under the strain of the bolts. The slot a is made sufflciently larger than the downwardly bent portions e of the cli s E, to permit sufficient adjustment of the c ips to accommodate any desired position of the rail.

I claim A fastenin for railway ties, comprising a plate adapte to be secured to the u per surace of the tie, and having flanges a apted to over-lie the upper edges of the tie, clips ada ted to bear upon the rail-base flanges, said clips having at their outer ends downwardly bent extensions, slots formed in said plate and adapted to receive said downwardly bent extensions, slots formed in said plate beneath an intermediate ortion of said clips, said slots comprising a arger portion that is ada ted to receive the head of a bolt, and a smallgr extension that is adapted to receive only the shank of the bolt, said late having a connecting piece interposec between said slots to strengthen the walls of the latter slot, and of the extension.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand.

CHARLES M. MAPES. Witnesses:

EDWIN J. PRINDLE, LILLIE CAss.

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