US1097183A - Railway angle-bar. - Google Patents

Description

w. B. MILLER.

w RAILWAY ANGLBBAB.

APPLIOA'IIOR FILED JULY 24, 1918.

Patented May 19, 1914.

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Inventor Attorneys onirnn sT r sPA rENToFFioE.

WILLIAM E. MILLER, OF PALISADE, NEVADA.

RAILWAY ANGLE-BAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 24, 1913. Serial No. 781,021.

To all {whom it may concern 3e it known that I, lVILLIA E. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Palisade, in the county of Eureka and State of Nevada, have invented new and useful Railway Angle-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to improvements in railway anglebars, one object of the invention being the provision of an ofi'set to be formed by lengthening the central portion of the standard angle bar now in use, the said central offset portion to fit the web of the rail and have its two ends lie flat against such web for the purpose of closing the ends of the chamber formed by the oifset portion and the adjacent portion of the rail web for containing a lubricant, said angle bar being properly connected to the web of the two rails at the joint to permit of the necessary expansion and contraction.

A further object of the present invention is 'the provision ofananglebar provided with lubricant apertures leading to such chamber of the bar, so that lubricant may be supplied thereto and be held against the web of the rail to prevent the freezing of rail joints dueto the rusting or corroding between the angle bars and the rails.

\Vith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the-description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawings1*igure 1 is a view in elevation of the angle bar applied to a rail joint. Fig. 2 is a section taken on line 2-2 thereof. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the angle bar. Fig. t is a View from the opposite side thereof.

Referring to the drawings, the numerals 1 and 2 designate the two rails, 3 a tie plate mounted upon the tie l, and 6 the two angle bars which are the medium used for connecting the rail joints in proper position.

Each of the angle bars, as clearly shown in Figs. 3 and 4, is provided with the ofiset ends 7 which when such bars are positioned, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, provide the lubricant containing compartments 8 one upon each side of the web of the rail and between the inner faces of the angle bars, the lower end of each angle bar being positioned upon the base of the rail while the upper edge is adjacent to and in close proximity to the under side of the head of the rail.

The apertures or bolt holes 9 are formed in the angle bar for the reception of the bolts 10, so that the bars are properly secured upon each side of the rail and hold the rail joints in proper position.

To provide a means, whereby the compartments' or chambers 8 may be supplied with lubricant, the apertures 11 are formed through the body of the plate abovethe bolt holes or as near the upper edge as possible so that the lubricant may be injected therein.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, it is evident that with an angle 'bar constructed according to the present invention and mounted so as to contain the lubricant, as shown in Fig. 2, that the face of the angle bar will be held in contact with the adj oining portions of the rails and even though forced into contact, will be properly lubricated so that the usual corrosion which takes place will not cause a cohesion of the parts and thus render it dif ficult for the rails to expand or contract.

VVhatis claimed is:

1. An angle bar having inturned ends for engaging the web of the rail and an interme diate compartment sealed by the ends and the web of the rail for the reception of a lubricant.

2. The combination with two rails, of two angle'bars for securing the joints thereof together, each of said bars having two iii-- turned ends for engaging the webs of the rails and an intermediate portion out of contact with the web of the rail and forming with the t-woends. and the webs of the rails two oppositely disposed lubricant containers.

3. The combination with two rails, of two angle bars for securing the joints thereof together, each of said bars having two inturned ends for engaging the webs of the rails and an intermediate portion out of contact with the web of the rail, and both angle Patented May 1 9, 1914.

bars and the rails forming with the two ends my own, I have hereto aifixed my signature of each bar and the Webs of the rmls two f in the presence of two witnesses. v oppositely disposed 1ubr1c ant containers 5 i each bar being provlded Wljlh an aperture IILLIXM MILLLI 5 whereby lubrlcant is supphed to its con- \Vitnesses:

miner. M. H. VEBER,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as J. WVEBER.

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