US1057969A

US1057969A - Railway-track anchor.

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Publication number: US1057969A
Application number: US73223512A
Authority: US
Inventors: Louis F Lorenzi
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1912-11-19
Filing date: 1912-11-19
Publication date: 1913-04-01
Anticipated expiration: 1930-04-01

Description

L. F. LORENZI.

RAILWAY TRACK ANCHOR.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 19, 1912.

Patented Apr. 1, 1913.

m 5/ m y WITNESSES ,To all whom it may concern:

STATES PATENT QFFICE.

Loins r. LOBENZI, tor BACINE, rnnnsnvnma RAILWAY-TRACK ANCHOR.

Application filed November l9, 1912. .Serial No. 732,285.

Be it known that I, LoUIs'F. LonENzI, a subject of the Kingof Italy, residing at Ra'- cine, in the county of Beaver and State of- Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Track Anchors, of which the following is a specification.

This invention. relates to an improvement in track anchors, and the object is to provide means which can be fastened to the ties of arailway track at redetermined intervals for the purpose 0% fastening the track to the road-bed in such a manner that it will prevent the creeping of the rails.

.It is a well known fact that in the moving of heavy trains over a road bed the rails are caused to vibrate thus causing the ties to move from their bed and the rails to creep, all of .which sooner or later causes the more or less trouble and results in switches, signals, and the like getting out of order.

" The invention consists of certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described and pointedout inthe claims.

- bars 2, 2which are located above the plates 1, and are spaced the same distance apart. The bars are offset or raised through their centers, andare rovided with 111 3 which engage the base an e 4 of the rails B.

The cars 2 are astened to the ties by spikes 5, 5. Connecting the bars 2 and plates 1 are rods 6. The rods passing through-the bars and plates, and the upper ends of the rods are screw-threaded and nuts 7 are screwed onto the ends for fastening the plates and bars together for the purpose of anchoring the rails and'ties to the road bed, prevented from creeping.

With an invention of this character the wave motion or vibration of the rails caused by a train moving over the rails will be overcome, and further the track will be prevented from creepin and causing a stretching and breaking o the rails. The bars 2 connecting the tles and rails together, and .the bars and plates being connected together by the rods, forms a fastening not only between theties and rails, but also formsan anchorage for the track with the'road-bed.

Havin fully described my invention, and what I c aim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a road-bed, ties and rails, of plates located at predetermined intervals in the road-bed, bars spanning the ends of the ties at predetermined intervals and located over the plates, and rods'co'nnecting the plates and bars together for fastening the ties and rails to the road-bed.

2. The combination with a road-bed, ties and rails, of plates located at. predetermined intervalsin the road-bed, bars spanning the ends of the ties at predetermined intervals and located over the plates, lugs on the bars engaging the base-flanges'of the rails, and

, rods connectin the plates and bars together for fastening t e ties and rails together and anchoring the ties and rails to the road-bed. In testlmony whereof I afiix my signature,

.in the presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS r. LORENZI. Witnesses: ADELIA LonnNzI, HUGH C. ALLISON.

Patented Apr. 1, 1913