US1038313A - Combined rail-joint and tie-fastener. - Google Patents

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A. DILLON. COMBINED RAIL JOINT AND TIE FASTBNBR.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 23, 1911.

1,038,31 3. Patented Sept. 10, 1912 ALBERT DILLON, OF AITCH, OHIO.

COMBINED RAIL-JOINT AND TIE-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 23, 1911.

Patented Sept. 10, 1912.v

Serial No. 628,918.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT D'IL'LON, acitizen of the United States, residlng at .Aitch, in the county of Monroe and State I of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combined Rail- Joints and Tie-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invent-ion relates to new and useful improvements in metallic rail ties and fastenings therefor and more particularly to a combined tie fastener and rail joint, and my object is to provide a device of this character which will eliminate the use of spikes, bolts, nuts and the like and will effectively secure the rails to the ties.

A further object of the invention resides in providing clamping members to engage the base flanges of the rails and retain the same, and a still further object resides in providing means for readily locking and unlocking said clamping members to the tie. A. further object is to provide the clamping members having shanks thereon pro vided with grooves and further to provide keys or the like on the tie adapted to cooperate with the grooves in the clamping members to secure the same to said tie.

Still another object of the invention resides in providing certain of the clamping members with locking lugs. adapted to enter notches or the like in the ends of the opposed rails, whereby said opposed rails may be securely held together to the tie.

A still further object resides in providing a device which is extremely simple in construction, thereby readily and cheaply manufactured and one which is very efficient and useful in operation.

With these and other objects in view, my invention consists in the novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter referred to and more particularly pointed out in the specification and claims.

In the accompanying drawing forming a part of this application Figure 1 is a top plan view of the tie showing my improvements applied to use. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section therethrough as seen on line 22, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective of a modification of one of the clamping members removed. Fig. 4: is a similar view of one of the rail ends used in connection with my device as a'rail joint,

and, Fig. 5 is a detail perspective of one of the locking keys removed from the tie.

In carrying out my invention, I shall refer to the drawing in which similar reference characters designate corresponding parts throughout the several views and in which- 1 indicates a solid metallic tie provided adjacent each end thereof with a pair of slots 2 and 3, which slots extend vertically and completely through said tie. Extending transversely through the tie is a plurality of channels or grooves 4, one for each slot, said channels being so disposed as to intersect the slots and form grooves in the side walls thereof. These channels 4, where fully represented, are substantially circular in cross section, but, as stated, are so disposed as to be intersected by the vertical slots and, therefore, form substantial semicircular grooves in the walls of said slots, and mounted in said slots, are the locking keys or the like 5 which are circular in cross I section and have portions thereof flattened, as shown at 6, which flattened portions are equivalent in length to the lengths of the slots 2 and 3. These keys are upset at one of their ends to be retained to the tie and the other end thereof bent substantially at right angles to the general trend, asshown' at 7 and the extreme outer end of this right-' angular bent portion has a knob or the like 8 formed thereon to be readily grasped by 1 the operator. The flattened portions of the keys are so formed thereon as to register in 7 alinement with one of the side walls of said slots when the angular portions of said keys are raised to their vertical positions, and when disposed in the position shown in Fig. 1, the keys 5 are in their locked positions, as a portion of the same extends within the vertical slots 2 and 3. In order to secure a rail 9 to this tie, the clamping members 10 are provided, one for each: of the vertical slots 2 and 3, the shanks 11 of which are provided with the longitudinal,

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grooves 12, which grooves are substantially semi circular incross section and formwith the SQIDLCllCIllilI' grooves of the sld'e walls of said slots, substantially circular channels.

Inpositioning the clamping memb'erson v the tie, the angular portions 7 of the lock ing keys5 are disposed to their vertical 'po-g sit-ionsso that the flattened portions 6 there of register-with the side walls-of the slots 2 and 8, whereby the shanks of said clamping members may be readily inserted in said slot-s and the rails 9 positioned between said clamping members so that the under faces of the heads of the latter engage the base flanges of said rails. The longitudinal grooves 12 are so disposed in the shanks of said clamping members that when the heads securely held in position to lock the base flanges of the rails to the tie and prevent movement of the same in any direction. I have also provided means for the joining of a pair of rail ends with this form of rail securing means, in which the use of spikes and bolts is eliminated, and to this extent, the clamping members 13, similar to the clamping members 10 are each provided with a pair of lugs or projections 14; at the junction of the head and the shank thereof, said lugs or projections being spaced apart and both disposed on the same side of the member. The 1 rails 15 are each provided adjacent their ends with a pair of notches or the like 16 and 17, one notch being disposed in each of the base flanges of the rail and opposite one another. Thus, it will be seen that as the two opposed rail ends are brought together on the tie, the clamping members may be lowered into engagement therewith so that the lugs thereon enter the notches in the base flanges of said rail, and as these clamping members 13 are otherwise identical with the clamping members 10, the look ing keys may be disposed in their eifective positions so as to lock said clamping mem- 'bers in engagement with the rail ends. In

this manner, said rail ends are clamped to one another from both sides and securely held to the rail without the use of spikes or bolts and nuts. j

. From the foregoing, it will be seen that I have provided an improved form of tie and rail fastener therefor and have also provided in conjunction therewith, an improved rail joint, both of which are of extremely simple construction and effectual in operation; Furthermore, it will be seen throughout the operation of the device, that the use of spikes and bolts and nutsis entirely eliminated, so that the device is quickly and readily operated at all times, and in this connection, it will be seen that time, labor and expense will be greatly lessened through the use of this device. It will still further be seen that this device is of extremely simple construction, thereby cheaply manufactured and one which is effective in operation in every connection.

What I claim is 1. The combination with a base member having vertical slots therein; of means to secure an additional member thereto, comprising clamping members having shanks thereon disposed in said vertical slots, said shanks being provided with transverse channels, and rotatable locking keys extending transversely of the base member contiguous with said slots, said locking keys being adapted to engage the channels of said shanks when rotated in one direction, and means to manually rotate said locking keys.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination with a base member having vertical slots therein and also provided with transverse channels intersecting said slots; of means to secure an additional member to said base member, comprising clamping members removably mounted in said slots, said clamping members being provided with grooves adapted for alinement with the channels of said base member, and locking members rotatably mounted in the channels of said base member adapted to enter the grooves of said clamping members to retain the same in their effective positions.

3. In a device of the class described, the combination with a tie having vertical slots therein and also provided with transverse channels contiguous with said slots; of means to secure a member to said tie, comprising clamping members provided with shanks extending within said slots and vertically movable therewithin, said shanks being provided with grooves on one of their faces adapted to aline with the channels in said tie, locking keys rotatably mounted in the channels of said tie and permanently carried thereon, said locking keys being adapted to enter the grooves of the shanks ing-pins being each provided with a flattened face, and means to rotate said locking pins.

5. In a device of the class described, the combination with a base member having vertical slots therein and also provided with transverse channels intersecting said slots;

of clamping members removably mounted and a handle member carried on each of in said slots provided with grooves therein said pins to manually rotate the same. 10 adapted for alinement with the channels in In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my said base member, locking pins substantially signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' circular in cross section rotatably mounted ALBERT DILLON. in the channels of said base, said locking Witnesses: pins being each provided with a flattened GLEN PoLEN, face and permanently carried on the base, W. V. A. PoL N.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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