US1101335A - Rail-brace. - Google Patents

Description

R. SARGENT.

RAIL BRAGB. APPLICATION FILED $1113.18, 1914.

Patented June 23, 1914.

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ROBERT SARGENT, 0F LAONA, WISCONSIN.

RAIL-BRACE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 23, 1914.

Application filed February 18, 1914. Serial No. 819,374.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ROBERT SARGENT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Laona, in the county of Forest and State of WVisconsin, have invented a new and Improved Rail-Brace, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a brace comprising clamp members adapted to engage track rails at the outer sides, and united by a turnbuckle or equivalent to tighten or loosen the clamp members as desired. Associated with the clamp members are bearing plates seating against the rails and means associated with the clamps to engage the rails at the inside.

The invention resides in the novel co-acting' elements or formations on the clamps and bearing plates, and in appurtenant elements hereinafter more particularly described. Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a transverse vertical section througha track showing my invention applied thereto, the section being indicated by line 1-1 Fig. 2; Fig. 2 is a plan view; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a bearing plate to be engaged by clamps at the outside of the rails.

In constructing a practical embodiment of the invention for application to track rails A supported on ties or other supports B, a clamp member 10 is provided to engage the respective rails of the track, each clamp comprising diverging forked arms, the outer ends of which are formed with upturned ends 11. The inner end of each clamp member is provided with a shank member 12, the shanks of opposite clamps being formed with right and left threads which are engaged by a turnbuckle 13 which re ceives lock nuts 14.

Associated with each clamp member 10 is a chair 15 on which the rail A may seat, the clamp arms having depressions 10 which receive said chairs. Integral with each chair is a bearing plate 16, formed at its inner side to conform to the side face of a rail, the said bearing plates having a longitudinally ranging recess or depression 17 at the upper inner angle positioned to receive the adjacent side of the rail head. At the base the hearing plate 16 overhangs the chair 15, to produce a longitudinal recess 18 for accommodation of the rail flange.

The outer face of the bearing plate 16 and the projections 11 of the clamps 10, have a mating formation which results in an effective gripping of the bearing plate by the clamp. Thus in the outer face of the bearing plate 16 depressions 19 are formed, which are defined by three-sided flanges or ribs 20, the bottom and inner wall of the recesses presenting inclines as clearly shown in Fig. 3. The inner faces 11 of the projections 11 on the clamps have a corresponding bevel to seat against the inclines on the hearing plate. The recesses in thebearing plate are spaced a distance corresponding with the space between the projections 11 of a clamp, and when the clamps and bearing plates are in position, the turnbuckle may bel employed to firmly bind the parts in p ace. may be reversed to release the bearing plate 16 and permit a convenient removal of the latter.

At the inside of the rails clamp plates 21 are employed, the inner ends of which incline upwardly to correspond in general with the flange of the rail. Bolts 23 and nuts 24 serve to secure the clamp plates 21 to the clamps 10. When the device is to be employed on a rail joint an angle bar 25 is employed between a clamp 21 and a rail, but the said angle bar may be omitted where the device is employed on the rails other than a joint. Thus the device is primarily useful as a rail brace, particularly on curves, although it may be employed elsewhere on the track so as to brace the rails against separating movement where heavy locomotives are employed. When the angle bars 25 are omitted, the clamps 21 may be adjusted on the clamps 10 so as to come to a bearing directly against the flanges of the rails at the inside. To provide for the adjustment and the secure holding of the clamps 21 when in the adjusted position, two or more bolt holes 26 are formed in each diverging arm of a clamp 10, for receiving the bolts 23 in diflerent positions according to whether the angle bars 25 are employed oromitted.

The opposed surfaces of the clamp 10 and the members 21 have mating corrugations 27,

28, that interlock when the nuts 24 of the bolts 23 are tightened.

On the other hand the turnbuckle Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A rail brace comprising clamps for the respective rails, connecting means serving to tighten or loosen the clamps, each clamp comprising diverging arms terminating in upward projections adapted to be positioned at the outsides of the track rails and with depressions adjacent to said projections, rail chairs received by said clamps in the de pressions thereof and provided with bearing plates adapted to bear against the rails at the outside, said bearing plates having exterior recesses corresponding in position with the terminals of the diverging arms of the clamps, said recesses presenting upwardly inclined inner walls and the opposed faces of the projections at the terminals of the clamps being beveled to correspond with the said inclined seats, and means carried by said clamps and adapted to engage the rails at the inside.

2. A rail brace, comprising clamps for the respective rails, connecting means serving to tighten or loosen the clamps, each clamp comprising diverging arms adapted to extend beneath therails and formed with upward projections at the outer ends, and bear- Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Washington, D. 0.

inclined surfaces and beveled faces extend- 7 ing respectively to the bases of the bearing plates and to the bases of the projections.

3. A rail brace, comprising clamps-for the respective rails, connecting means serving to tighten or loosen the clamps, each clamp comprising diverging arms adapted to extend beneath the track rails and'having upwardly projecting members, bearing plates against which the said projections bear to press the bearing plates against the rails, at the outsides, and a separate clamp member on each arm of each clamp adaptedto overlie the rails at the inside, and means for adjustably holding said clamp members onthe said arms.

In witness whereof I have'signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 7

ROBERT SARGENT.

Witnesses: T s 7 JOHN D. KIssINcER, HERMAN J. SCHMIDT.

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