US1031506A

US1031506A - Track structure.

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Publication number: US1031506A
Application number: US64974811A
Authority: US
Inventors: Victor Angerer
Original assignee: William Wharton Jr & Co Inc
Current assignee: William Wharton Jr & Company Inc; William Wharton Jr & Co Inc
Priority date: 1911-09-16
Filing date: 1911-09-16
Publication date: 1912-07-02
Anticipated expiration: 1929-07-02

Description

V. ANGERER.

TRACK STRUCTURE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 16, 1911. @93h56, Patented July 2,191.2.

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V. ,ANGERBR TRACK STRUCTURE.

AIPLIOATION FILED SBPT.1L6, 1911.

Patented. July 2, 1912.

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VICTOR ANGERER, OF RIDLEY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM WHAR- '.roN, JR., & COMPANY, INCORPORATED,

CORPORATION F PENNSYLVANIA.

OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A

TRACK STRUCTURE.

- Specification of Letters Patent. f

Patented July 2, 1912;

Application filed-September 16, 1911. Serial No. 649,748.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that'I, VICTOR ANGERER, a citizen Yof the United States,` residing in Ridley Park, county of Delaware, State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Track Structures, of which the following is a specification.

united'to lthe body .portion by welding andv without the use of ,bolts or rivets, or other mechanical means; thus maklng a strong structure from which any one of the rail arms can be separated without distorting.

the rest of the structure in case suoli becomes desirable for repairs or re-alinement; the parts being so arranged that by cutting through the welds or at a point adjacent to the welds, a rail arm can be removed and another put in its place and welded to the structure. This object I attain in the f0llowing manner, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, in which Figure l, is a plan view of a railway frog illustrating my invention; Fig. 2, is a transverse sectional vicw on the line 2,?2, Fig. 1, drawn to an enlarged scale; Fig. 3, is a peiispeiive view of the body portion; Fig. 4, is a section'alv'iewon the'line 4-4, Fig. 1 drawn on a reduced scale; showing the means for. attaching the detachable center plate tothe body portion; Fig. 5, illustrates a sectional view of a modication of the invention; Fig. 6, is a plan view of a switch or switch-mate made in accordance with my invention; Fig. 7 is a sectional view on thev line 7 7, Fig. 6; Fig. 8, is a sectional view of a modiication; Fig. 9, is a plan view of a track structure made from channel bars welded together; Fig. v10, is an enlarged seotional view on the line 10-10, Fig. 9; Fig. 11, is a sectional view on the line 11 1l,

Fig. 9, with the rails in position;l Fig. 12,

, the body portion and in this insert far is a view of a modication, showing the body` portion having an integral" centerv groove; Fig. 13, is a plan View of a corner of a crossing, illustrating my invention. p

Referring in the first instance to Figs; 1 to t inclusive, A is thebody ofthe' track structure, preferably made of cast metal, having a central portion A from which projects arms'o, a at-each end and, in the present instance vthe arms are so spaced apart that short sections of'rails B can inserted between them and secured thereto l' by welding. C is a hard metal inserhfin the present instance, -made 'separateffro grooves c'-c, which aline' with the grooves' b in the rails B. This hard metal 'insert can be' secured to the body portion in any suitable manner. In place of the insert, the

for the reception ofthe beveled ends of this'` rails B and the heads Z1- *of the rails have guard flanges b2,

tioned that the head and flanged portion of the rails come in close proximity, o'rgA contactwith the upper and lower edges ofjv the arms afa, and, as illustrated in Fig. 2,

the arns a-ya have longitudinal channelsa2 at their upper inner ends, as well as the i wl-shaped 'at 4 central arm, being` preferably the upper end, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The heads b of the rails B extend into the' longitudinal channels a2 in the arms a The parts are so proporbody portion may be made as illustratedv inf'4 f' grooves o', which aline 'with' rails, may be formed-in'. 7l-5.

the ends of the body and these heads are preferably beveled, as

so as to form a 'cavity and the outer shown i are slightly edges of the guard flanges b2 beveled, as indicated, forming, with the V- shaped upperIend ofthe arm a', a V-shaped groove or recess. The guard flanges may contact with the centralarm a', or they majI be `spaced a distance from it, as illustrated in Fig. 2, as desired. p f l Thexarms ze-a are preferably so shaped as to form base flanges, as illustrated Fig. 2, and the central arm a in the present instance' has an extendedvbase as and the illustrated in 'Fi 2. When the-rail sections and the bocy portion of the structure are assembled. thev groovesl are formed, as indicated, between the rails an'd the arms of -the body portion. These parts are. then held in proper posit-ion and the upper faces l of the structure welded 4on the lines of the grooves; t-he scrap or other metal becoming an integral part of the rails and arms. The structure is then inverted and the grooves on the under side filled with scrap or other I I .metal and the welding or soldering process repeated; making a homogeneous structure' in which the projecting rail ends are rigidly secured to the body portion; dispensing with bolts, rivets, or similar fastenlngs.

Thilo I preferably extend the welds the full lengthof the arms a-a/, they may be made lat intervals, if desired. Ify the two g rails should come in Contact with each other,

as in Fig.v 5, -then the rails may be welded together, as shown. The arms .are so made and the welds are so located that if it is desired to renewany one of the rail 4portions, the same canbe severed from the st-ructure by cutting or sawing, or by other means, through the welded portions uniting the particular rail to the structure, without injuring or disturbing the 'other portions of `the structure, after which a new rail can be insertedand united to the structure by a new Weld at the upper and lower edges, as above tion that ,I am enabled to unite the rail arms described.' s

It will be noticedthat I preferably so design the parts that theweld is made at a comparatively narrow part of the structure and preferably at an open space. so that a saw or. othercutting tool can readily saw through the weld when it is desired to remove rone of the rail' sections from the struc ture.

The .insert 'C may be secured by welding or soldering or it may be secured to the body portion In Fig. 4, Ihave illustrated a welded joint-between the side walls of the insert and the walls of the structure. In the present instance ribs f are formed on the inner surface of the walls of the body portion and the vwelds'are made atthe junction ol' arms of the body portion A. and the inner,

lower flanges f2 ofv thse .arms abut the langes'of the rails and the weld is Vmade at the several points indicated in Fig.- 5.

v In Fig. 8, I have shown another modification, 4in whic the body portion is made by any 'of the `well known 'means inthe form of two channel bars with the flanges extending outwardly; the Weld being made between the'inner walls ofthe angle bars at top and bottom and-the head,

guard flange, and base flanges of the rail.

In Figs, 6 and 7,'I have illustrated the invention as applied to 'a switchstructure.

In this instance, the body portion A2 of the switch structure has arms 0l?,-aliningwith the head and baseflangesof the rails B2, and which are welded thereto at the top and bottom of the arms, as shown .in Fig. 7. It will be understood that the invention can be applied t'o va crossing, as lillustrated in Fig. 13, without departing, from the essential features of the invention, andthis crossing can be made with or withoutia separate insert. i

In Figs. 9, /10, and ll, 4 I have illustrated a track .structure made of channel bars. The structure A3 consists of two `longitudinal bars I-I, with inturned flanges z at the top and bot-tom and these channel bars are connected by a transverse horizontallyl'ar- In Fig. 8, I have shown a track structure lmade of channel bars, but, in this instance,

the flanges ofv thechannel bars IZ project' outwardly.

Thus it will be seen bythe above construcand .the body portion by longitudinal. welds to form an integral structure and I also sc ,cure the met-al insert to the track structure by similar longitudinal welds, ifdesired. The welds are so arranged that the parts of the structure can again be separated by cutting when it is necessary'to repair. or

renew one or more of the parts jury to the structure. y

I claim: l. VA tra'ck structure, composed 'of a body without in- Vportion having ways for wheel flanges onits upper face, horizontal arms extending` from said body portion, rails located betweensaid arms alining with the flanged ways of the body portion and united thereto by welding the upper and lower edges of the extensions to the'head and base'portions of the rails.

2. A track structure, composed of a soft metal body struct-ure havin a recess, a hard` metal insert secured in sai recess and."l aving flange-waysfor wheels on its 1 1 lper face, horizontal arms extending from said body portion, rails located between said arms and alnin'gwith the flange-'ways inthe hard Cri '. recess near the upper edge,

inserti being secured 3. A track structure, composed of a body,

portion having flange-ways for wheels on its upper face, horizontal arms extending vfrom said body portion, rails mounted between said arms so that the head portion and the base portion of said rails are in contact only along the upper and lower edge of said arms, and longitudinal welds along said edges uniting the rails to the body portion.

track structure,

4. A composed of a body portion having flange-ways for wheels on its upper face, horizontal arms extending from said body portion, rails located between `said extensions of said arms and united thereto by narrow longitudinal welds along the upper and lower edges of the eX- tensions so that the parts may be severed at the welds by cutting. v

5. A track structure, composed of a body portion having a recess, a hard'metal insert having flange-ways for wheels on its upper face and secured in position by narrow longitudinal welds near the upper edge of the walls of the body portion forming the recess and the contiguous edge of the hard metal insert.

6. A track structure, composed of a soft metal bodyI portion, having a. recess, a hard metal vinsert havingiiange-ways for wheels on its upper face, narrow horizontal ribs projecting 'inwardly-from"the walls of' the the hard metal to the recess by wel'ds between the ribs and the sides of the insert.l

7. The combination of a body portion and a rail, a narrow integral'web connecting the two parts permanently together, said parts being so designed as to form an open space on each side of the web so that it can be cut when it is desired to remove one part from the-other.

8. The combination in a track structure,`

ofa body portion having arms, with a rail having a head and a base flange; said head and base flange being welded to the arm forming a web at the' top and bottom of the structure, with a space on each side of the web to allow the parts to be severed by cutting.

9. rlhe combination in a track structure,

tfidinally at top and bottom, with rails lo /ated between the arms and welded to the yarms at the grooves.

l0. The combination in a track structure, of a body portion having arms, a rail having a head and a base flange, said rail being secured to the arms at their upper and lower edges, said arms and rails being spaced apartexcept at the joints to allow for cut-` ting.

l1. The combination in a track structure,

of a body portion having arms, an insert resting on the body portion and connected thereto at each side by narrow webs, with rails connected to the arinsby narrow longitudinal webs formed by welding the parts together.l

1Q. The combination in a track structure, of a body portion having arms at each '9nd,

rails having a head and a guard flange at' the upper end and a base fiange at the lower end, the narrow webs connecting head-c.

to the upper ends of the said arms and webs connecting the base flanges to the lower ends of the said arms, the intervening space between the upper and lower port-ions of the structure being open between the arms and the webs or therails so as to permit of the removal of a rail section by severing the webs connecting the said rail sections to the arms.

13. .The combination in a track structure, of a body portion having three arms projecting at each end, the central arm at each end being.;V `having a wide, flange at"its. lower edge, said fiangebeing reeesse'dat its under side, the said arms being recessed at the under side and also recessed at the upper edgeg'with rails mounted. between the said arms center arms, the base flange of thewrails being cutaway and extending into the recesses of the base of said arms and welded thereto, the head of each rail bein beveled, and extending into the recess at tie upper end of the said arms and-weldedthereto,

and the guard flange hapect at its upper edge and and the 'and ,the two guardniianges being'welded tov the V-shaped end. bf the central arm.

' In testimony whereof, l' have signed my name to this specification; 'in .the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, p Vieron miennes., Witnesses:

Jos. H. KLEIN, Win. A. BARR