US1103726A - Rail-tie-spacing device. - Google Patents

Description

S. H. YOUNG.

RAIL TIE SPAGING DEVICE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY 1, 1914.

1,103,726. I Patented July 14,1914.

SAMUEL H. YOUNG, or DURDEN, GEORGIA.

RAIL-TIE-SPACING DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented July 14,1914.

Application'filed May 1, 1914. Serial No. 835,697. I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it knownthat I, SAMUEL H. YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Durden, (five miles east of Quitmarn) in the county of Brooks and State of Georgia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Tie-Spacing Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements when under the rails and has for its primary object to provide a simple and inexpensive device that is to be clamped to a rail and cooperate with a jack so that the ties may be easily spaced.

An object of importance is to provide a rail clamping device to cooperate with a jack, that is adjustable to be clamped upon rails of various sizes and when clamped is comparatively rigid so that the head of a jack may be placed against the same and the base of the jack against the adjacent tie so that upon the operation of the jack the tie is spaced relative to the rail and the clamp prevented slipping on the rail.

Another object of my invention is to provide a device of the character described that is simple as to construction, reliable and eflicient in operation and inexpensive to manufacture.

The above and additional objects are accomplished by such means as are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, described in the following specification and then more particularly pointed out as claimed.

With reference to the drawings, wherein I have illustrated the preferred embodiment of my invention as it is reduced to practice, and throughout the several views of which similar reference numerals designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a fragmentary plan view showing my improved device as it would appear when in use and employed in connection with a jack, Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the plane of line 2-2 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the clamping jaw.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference and particularly to Fig. 1, the numeral 1 designates as an entirety a clamp of my improved construction that is secured to a rail 2 so as to extend outwardly at right angles thereto, and 3 the cross tie.

1 designates a jack of the usual construction that is arranged with its base engaging in devices for spacing rail ties the adjacent tie 3 and its head engaging the side of the clamp 1. It will be readily seen that by operation of the jack 4: the tie 3 will be spaced or moved relative to the rail, as desired. i

My improved device-comprises a frame 5 that consists of an approximately rectangular plate 6 having a right angularly extend ing jaw 7 formed integral at one end and a right angular flange 8 at the other end which extends outwardly from the plate 6 in the same direction as the jaw 7 Cooperating withthe jaw 7 is a slidable rectangular jaw 9 that is provided upon its outer end with a hard metal jaw face 10 with serrations 11 thereon that are inclined oppositely so that a secure grip upon the rail 2 is provided.

. This jaw face '10 is preferably welded to the The plate 6 is provided approximately centrally of its ends with spaced longitudinal slots 12 through which bolts 13 are inserted. The bolts 13 are turned through screw threaded openings 1 1 in the jaw 9 and are arranged normally to extend considerably beyond the outer face of the jaw 9.

The bolts 13 are provided'with square heads 15 to enable adjustment thereof and so that the jaw 9 may be moved to and away from the plate 6 to accommodate rails of diff-erent sizes. An elongated washer plate 16 is interposed between the heads 15 and outer face of the plate 6 so that dirt or otherforeign matter is prevented getting into the longitudinal slots 12.

As a means to adjust the jaw 9 longitudinally with relation to the plate 6, I provide an adjusting screw 17 provided with an angular face head 18 and mounted in a threaded opening 19 in the flange 8 with its inner end disposed in engagement with the adjacent end of the jaw 9. By turning the adjusting screw 7 it will be readily seen that the jaw 9 will be moved into clamping position.

In operation the device is placed so that the jaws 7 and 9 clamp opposite sides of a rail and the device is extended at right angles to the rail as shown in Fig. 1. The jaw 9 is adjusted by means of the bolts 13 so as to be in the proper position relative to the jaw 7, in accordance with the size of the rail to be clamped. By turning the adjust- 11 or teeth on the jaw face relative to the rail when the 10 in being arranged in difi'erent angular positions prevent the device from slipping jack 4 is operated on either side of the device.

In practice, I have found that'the form of my invention, illustrated in the drawings and referred to in the above description as the preferred embodiment, is thecmost efii- 1. A tie spacing device in combination Q with a jack, having its face disposed in engagement with one side of a tie of means-to clamp the rail to extend outwardly at right angles theretoand form an abutment forthe f head of the jack comprismg a base plate, a

jaw at one .end of the base plate and relatively stationary, a jaw slidable on the base plate, means to slidably support the jaw, and means to slide the jaw into clamping position, said jaws arranged to clamp opposite sides of the rail. 7

2. A device of the character described comprising a base plate, a rightangularly extending jaw formed integral with one end of the base plate, a right angularly extend- 'ing flange formed at the other end of the base plate, said base plate being provided with longitudinal slots, a slidable jaw, bolts gslidable in the slots and adjustably con-.

fnected witha slidable jaw to support said slidable jaw with relation to the base plate, lin different adjusted positions, and an adjusting screw mountedin saidfiange'and at one end engaging the slidable jaw.

in presence oftwo witnesses.

SAMUEL H. YOUNG.

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In testimony whereof I afix my signature 7 I

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