US1104193A - Rail joint and chair. - Google Patents

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L. `HUNYADI.

RAIL JOINT AND CHAIR. l APPLIoATloN FILED un. 24. 1914.

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A`L. HUNYADI.

RAIL JGINT `AND CHAIR. APPLIOATION FILED APR. 24. 1914.

Patented July 21, 1914,

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LOUIS HUNYADI, 0F CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BAIL JOINT AND CHAIR.

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B e it known at- I, Louis HUNYADI, a subjeotlotthe Kling of Hunga residing at Cleveland, iin the county o l' ymlmga and Stute of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail Joints and (Tlciiirs, of which the following is a specifi- This invention relates to new and useful improvements in rail joint and chair.

The primary object ofA this invention is to provide a joining means for the adjacent ends of railway rails obviating the use of the ordinary fish plates and requiring no bolts or removable locking means.

A further object is to rovide a connecting block for railway rai s and adapted for hook engagement with the ends of adjacent rails whereby the'rai-ls are securely connected together in accurate alinement without the employment of any other means while thev connecting block provides an intermediate short section of rail tread.

j A still further object is to provide a connecting block slidably engaging'a rail chair and having a short track section adapted of two rails illustrating one rbein illustrated in dot for connecting together the adjacent ends of track rails.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illust-rated in the accompanyin drawings and pointed out in the appende claim.

In the drawings forming a part offthis a plication and in which like designating c araoters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several views :-Figure 1 is a side eleva-tion of two rails provided with the present joining block mounted upon a rail chair, portions being broken away. Fig. 2 is a top plan view thereof. Fi 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view ta en upon line III- III of Fig. 1. Fig; 4 1s an enlarged side elevation of the connecting block positioned between the end portions of said rail portions in the assembling tggeration, the same lines in its complete y connected position. 5 is a per'- spective view of the connecting .block detached. Fig. 6 is a rspectiye view of the end ortion of a rai and Fig. 7 is a perspective view of the mounting portion of a Specification of Letters Patent. pliblftin Bled April 24, 1914'. 'Se'llll N0. 834,117.

nel rail. The connecting with sockets 19 at its opposite ends and coinchair or end portion of a tie adapted for su porting the connecting block.

eferring more in detail to the drawings, two rails 10 and3 11 are illustrated of identical form and designed when taken with the connecting blocks shown in Fig. 5 for forming the continuous rails of the railroad PatentedJuly 21, 1914.

track. A rail chair or metallic tie adapted l for seating a rail upon each opposite end thereof is provided of the form illustrated in Fig, 7 and bei-ng formed of a channel bar 12 having opposite out away notches 13 in each opposite side 14 thereof and adapted to communicate with the top slot 15 of the channel bar.

A connecting block as illustrated in Fig. 5 ias supplied with a central rail portion 16 having a supporting web 17 with longitudinal base Ranges 18, which flanges are adapted fior sliding reception within the notchesl of the channel rail 12 with the web 17 of the block itioned in the slet 15 of said chanblock is provided municating with the vertical slots 20 of the web 17 and which slots '2O are open at their tops and ends5 the sockets 19 having one in clined inner face 21 and the upper edges of the web 17 on each side of the slots 20 having inclined faces 22 adjacent the tread portion 16 of the block. The opposite ends of the rails 10 and 11 are formed identically with hooks 23 outwardly projecting from the rail web 24 while the rail web is out away beneath the hook 23 forming an inclined lower surface 25 merging with the outwardly slanting end 26 of the base flange 27 of the rail.

Tith the provision of the rail chair shown in Fig. 7, the block 17 is readily positioned thereon by sliding the block into the top opening of the c air and with the bloc tread 16 positioned transversely of the chair and above the opening therein as bestl illustrated in Fig. 2. The two rails 10 and 11 are then readily attached to the block by tilting the rails suiciently to allow an insertion of the end hook 23 into the block socket 19 as illustrated in Fig. 4 which forms upon com letion a solid lockln engagement between t e rail end and the b ook and with the slanting face 21 of the socket 19 enga in the inner inclined face 28 of the hoo 23. The inclined faces 22 of the slotted web portions accomm odate the end of the rail 11e tread when the rail end is being hooked to the connecting block. It will be seen that with the block securely positioned upon the vvchair or the tie the two rails may be thus readily engaged with the opposite ends of the block and with the tread ortion 16 of' the block in alinement with t e tread portions of the two connected rails and thus forming a continuous track rail. It should be noted that upon a completion of the formation of the rail as illustrated in Fig. 4 with the rail 11 engaging the block, that the track is then continued by engaging the rail l0 with the opposite side of the block while a further block is then connected in a similar manner to the free end of the rail 10 and another rail connected to said rail 10 by a similar engagement with the newly added block and in which manner the continuous track rail may be speedily built up without the employment of fish plates or vbolts of any form.

While the forms of the invention herein shown and described are what are believed to be preferable embodiments thereof, it is nevertheless to be understood that minor changes may be made in the form, proportion and details of construction without departing from the spirit and scope ofthe invention as set forth in the appended claim.

What I claim as new is:-

A device ,of the class described comprising a block having a flanged base, a tread portion and a web between said base and tread portion, portions of the said web extended from op site ends of the tread portion and providiii with slots open at their tops and ends, the upper faces of the web having inclined faces on opposite sides of said slots and adjacent the ends of said web portion, a rail having a` hooked extension upon the web portion thereof and with the web of the rail cut away beneath the said hook forming an inclined face therebeneath, the said hook having an inclined inner face, the web of said block having recesses with outer inclined faces and positioned beneath each end of the tread portion and adapted-` for the reception of said hook with the inclined face of the hook in seating engagel ment with the said recess face and with the rail tread in alinement with the tread of the block. f

In testimony whereof I ailix my signature .in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS HUNYADI. IVitnesses ALEXANDER WEIZER, GEORGE WACHTER.

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