US1075425A - Railway metal tie and rail-fastening. - Google Patents

Description

F. JAGER.

RAILWAY METAL TIE AND BAIL FASTENING.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3, 1913.

1,075,425. Patented Oct. 14,191

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FRANK JAGER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY METAL TIE AND RAIL-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented @et. id, 1213.

Application filed January 3, 1913. Serial No. 739,964.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK JAGER, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Railway Metal Ties and Rail-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to a novel metallic railway tie and rail fastening; and has for its principal object the provision of an improved tie of strength and durability which can be cheaply and readily made from commercial rolled iron; and is further designed to provide a tie having fastenings means of novel character for the reception of a rail and adapted to firmly secure the same to the tie, together with certain novel bracing and reinforcing means cooperating with said fastening means to efi'ectually prevent rail spreading or displacement, as more fully described hereinafter.

These together with such other objects as may hereinafter appear, or are incident to my invention, I attain by means of a construction illustrated in preferred form in theaccompanying drawings wherein,

Figure 1 is a plan view showing a tie embodying my invention, the rail and brace being removed from one rail seat.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal section through the tie in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an end elevation taken from the left of Figure 1.

Figure 4: is a slightly enlarged perspective of the rail brace, and Figure 5 is an enlarged section on the line VV of Figure 1.

Figures 6 and 7 are views illustrating a modified form of my invention when applied to a rail joint.

In disclosing my invention, I provide a tie body 10 of channel iron section, having the horizontal web portion 11, the downwardly extending side flanges 12, and depressed end portions 13, the latter being provided to prevent end-wise movement of the tie. I preferably employ commerciol iron shapes, such as indicated, as they combine the qualities of great inherent strength and comparative low cost of manufacture.

At predetermined points short of its ends, are outer and inner rail-base engaging lugs or projections, 14 and 15 respectively, punched or otherwise formed from the central portion of the rail seats 16, preferably to the rounded shape as shown, the dies being grouped to leave a connecting strip 17 integrally bridging the outer portions of the rail seats, and upon which outer portions and strip the track rails 18 are adapted to be positioned.

The lugs 14: and 15 are shown located at each side of the rail seats to engage with the sides of the base flange l9, and extend upwardly at right angles to the web 11 and when thus bent are in parallel relation with each other, thus readily permitting prompt seating of the rails in position on rail seats. The distance between inner lugs is to be determined by the gage, and once determined any possibility of incorrect adjustment of the rails by trackmen is positively eliminated as the distance between the lugs 14B and 15 is fixed, being substantially coextensive with the rail-base as already indicated. Each inner lug 14: may be bent in at its upper end slightly toward the side of the rail as at 20 without in any way interfering with the operation of positioning the rails on their seats.

With a view to prevent any possibility of the outer lugs spreading, a portion of the web at each side of the lug is sheared through and the separated web bent inwardly to form ribs 21 having their cut edges bearing on the web of the tie, thus reinforcing and bracing the said lugs against sidewise pressure.

The numeral 23 indicates a rail brace of polygonal section which is adapted to be driven between each of the lugs 14, 15, and the side of the rail, the brace having its lower inclined surface 24 fitted to seat on the base flange, and extends upwardly to seat underneath the rail head 26 in supporting engagement therewith. The beveled upper face 25 of the inner braces binds with and fits under the bent portion 20 of the inner lugs which together cooperate to firmly hold down the rail on its seat. To prevent the brace working loose, it is bored and interiorly threaded for the reception of a threaded bolt 22, which passes through the adjacent lug.

The fastening means as already described and as shown in Figures 1 to 5 inclusive, is also adapted for use as a rail joint to fasten the proximate ends of rail sections together, but in this connection a slightly modified arrangement as illustrated in Figures 6 and 7 may be employed, though its use is not intended to be restricted entirely in this re spect. Particularly referring now to Figures 6 and 7, I show the outer and inner lugs 14- and 15 of rectangular shape, and the rail provided vith slotted holes to receive headed bolts 22 clamping the rail ends between the inner and outer lugs and rail braces, the bolts passing through these members in an inwardly direction and tightened by nuts taking against the inside lug. Formed from portions of the Web which lie outside of the rails are reinforcing lug membore 21 each bent upwardly and inwardly to take up an angular position with respect to'its outer lug l t, and conformed to provide a clearance as at 21 and having an inwardly projecting lip or shoulder extending therefrom to engage with and brace the outer face of the lug, which arrangement is designed to effectively prevent spreading of the lugs.

Such a tie and rail fastening as I'have de scribed rigidly holds the rail on its support and between the lugs, and spreading of the rails is effectively guarded against by forming the lugs integrally from the web of the tie and reinforcing the lugs in the manner set'forth. T his spreading is further guarded against by bending the inner lug over the upper face of the inner brace, the brace cooperating therewith to force the base flange against the seat.

The lugs can be punched outor otherwise formed from the web of the tie in one single operation by a proper grouping of the dies; which together with the comparatively low cost of commercial rolled iron of a stock shape as shown, permits the manufacture of a' finished tie at an extremely low cost, without detracting from the desired strength and durability. Other-advantages will read ily be perceived by those skilled in the art.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated "its 'use whatl claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is the fol lowing 1. The combination of a metallic'tie body having rail seating portions intermediate its ends, and provided with a lug or projection at each side of a rail seating portion in engagement with the base flange of a rail and extending upwardly in a substantially parallel relation with each other to permitready seating of the rail, and a rail head supporting brace seated and secured between each of the said lugs or projections and the sides and base of the rail.

2. A fastening for flanged railsconsi-sting of a metallic tie body having rail base retaininglugs at each side of the rail seating portion and upset in parallelism, a rail brace interposed between one side of the rail and a lug and seated on the rail flange to extend upwardly in supporting engagement with the rail head, and a clamping element detachably connecting the brace with said base retaining lug all cooperating to hold the rail against displacement.

3. A fasteningforflanged' rails consisting of ametallie tie body having rail base en gaging upset lugs -at either side of the rail seating portion, and a railhead supporting brace seated on the rail flange and wedging between-a-lug and the rail'side, said brace further having a portion of its upper rail head supporting face inclining downwardly from the head to engage with an inwardly bent portion of one of the lugs, all so arranged to permit the ready positioning of rails, substantially as described.

et. A railway tie body having a horizontal web forming rail seating portions, rail-base engaging inner and outer lugs formed from rail seating portions 7 and extending upwardly in substantially parallel relation, said outer lugs having reinforcing portions angularly disposed thereto and extending upwardly from the web, thereby preventing rail displaceinentor spreading of the lugs; substantially as described. 7

5. As an article of manufacture a railway tie body of commercial iron, the horizontal web of which provides seating portions for rails, and rail 'holdinglugs of an inverted U shape formed from the said web seating portions to leave a taperediintegral bridging strip in rail seats, said integral strip forming part of the rail support; substantially as described.

6. In a railway metal tie, arail fastening comprising oppositely disposed and upwardly extending rail-base engaging lugs formed from the web of the tie body, one of the lugs being braced against spreading by engaging members angularly disposed thereto, the-'other-lughaving its upper edge inwardly bent toward the rail, anda rail brace seating between the said bent'edge and the rail base.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in: the presence of the two subscribed witnesses.

FRANK' JAGER. lVitnessesr W. HERBERT :Fowxns, MARGARET MOORE.

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Washington, 33.0.

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