US1078247A

US1078247A - Rail-joint.

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Publication number: US1078247A
Application number: US75759713A
Authority: US
Inventors: Clarence H Brunner
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-03-29
Filing date: 1913-03-29
Publication date: 1913-11-11
Anticipated expiration: 1930-11-11

Description

C. H. BRUNNER.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 29, 1913. 1,78,247. Patented Nov. 11, 1913.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application mama-a1 2c, 1913. Serial No. 757,597.

To all whom it may concern i be a full, clear,

Be it known that I, CLARENCE H. BRUN- nnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints;

and I do hereby declare the following to and exact description of the invention, such as will enable othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to rail joints of the scarf type and has for an object to pro vide an extremely rigid rail joint which willdispense with the use of fish plates and like coupling devlces.

A further object is to produce a rail joint which will positively hold the abutting rail ends against either vertical or displacement relatively to each other.

A still" further object is to provide a rail joint inwhich the abutting rail ends may be easily and quickly locked together and secured to the ties through theinstrumentality of the usual spikes and without othersecuring devices.

With the above objects in view the inven 3 tion consists of certain novel details of con j struction and combination of partshereia. after fully describedand claimed,it belng understood that various modifications may be made in the minor details of construction within the scope of the appended claims.

in the accompanying drawing illustrating this invention :-Figure 1 is aiplan view j of a railjoint embodying my improvements.

. identical so spective Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is a cross sectlonal view on the line 3-3 Flg. 1. Flg.

dis a horizontal sectional view on the line M Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of one of the rail ends. Fig. 6 is a perview of the other rail end. Referring now to the drawing in which like characters of reference designate similarparts, the rail joint is shown to comprise

abutting rail ends

10 and 11 which interfit at their meeting and produce a scarf joint. The rail ends are each formed that the description of one will suflice' for both. Each rail end has the ball 12 severed vertically as shown at 13 to the web, and the web thickened for a considerable distance in advance and in rear of the end 13 of the ball, the thickened web 55 being cut away on one side to the longilateral is ahorizontal oblong posed in the plane of the slot 26 and is of tudinal axis of the rail whereby a tongue 16 is produced, in advance of the end of the ball and a recess 17 is of the end of the ball.

The top of the thickened portion of the web slopes downwardly from the side. of the ball as shown at 19 and merges with the side edge of the base flange-in the vertical sideface 20. The top of the recess 17 slopes. downwardly from the end of the ball as shown at 21 rearwardly to the end wall 22 of the recess and terminates in the horizontal plane of the top of the adjacent vertical side face 20. The top 16 slopes downwardly and forwardly from the ball to the end 24: of the tongue, ter-i minating in the top of the adjacent vertical side face 20.

Formed in the inner longitudinal wall 25 of the recess 17 is a horizontal slot 26 which opens through the side face 20 of the thick- PatentedNov.11,1913...

produced in rear 23 of the tongue ened portion of the web on the opposite side of the rail from the recess. Formed on the inner longitudinal wall 27 of the tongue 16 lug 28 which is dissuch extent as to project beyond the plane of the side face 20 of the thickened portion of the web on the opposite side of the rail from the tongue, where the lug is provided with a longitudinal series of spike openings 29.

In assembling the rail ends 10 and 11, the

rail ends are slid laterally toward each other so that the tongue 16 of one rail projects into the recess 17 of the other rail and the lug 28 of one rail projects through the slot 26 of the other rail, as best shown in Fig. 4. The lugs project upon opposite sides of the rails and are spiked to the underlying ties 30 through the instrumentality of spikes 31 passed through the spike openings in the lugs. The interfitting tongues as well as the lugs passing through their respective slots,

What is claimed, is

1. A rail joint including abutting rail and fitting in a recess disposed in rear of.

the ball of the mating rail, a lug formed on the inner side of each tongue projecting through and beyond a slot formed in the inner Wall of the recess of the mating rail, and securing spikes passed through said tongue.

2. In a rail joint, abutting rail ends, each rail end having the ball severed to the Web, and having the Web thickened in advance and in rear of said ball, one side of said thickened Web being cut away to produce a tongue in advance of said ball and a recess in rear of said ball end, a slot being formed in the inner longitudinal Wall of said recess, a lug formed on the inner Wall of said tongue in the plane of said slot, the tongue of one rail snugly fitting in the recess of the mating rail, and the lug of one rail projecting through the slot of the mating rail, said lugs projecting, from opposite sides ofsaid abutting rail ends, and securing spikes passed through said lugs.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, 1n the presence of two Witnesses.

CLARENCE H. BRUNNER. Witnesses M. E. Bowman, G. M. FORREST.

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

Washington, D. G.