US1143188A

US1143188A - Railroad-tie.

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Publication number: US1143188A
Application number: US86634314A
Authority: US
Inventors: Furney F Green
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1914-10-12
Filing date: 1914-10-12
Publication date: 1915-06-15
Anticipated expiration: 1932-06-15

Description

F. F. GREEN.

RAILROAD TIE. APPLlcATloN FILED o-cT |2.1914.

Patented June l5, 1915.

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Witnesses Attorneysa THE NORRIS PETERS 60,. PHOTO-LITRO.. WASHINGTON, n, C.

FURNEY F. GREEN, 0F COALGATE, OKLAHOMA.

RAILROAD-TIE.

Application led October 12, 1914.

T0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that l, FURNEY F. GREEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Coalgate, in the county of Coal and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Railroad-Tie, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to metallic railway ties, and is designed more especially as an improvement upon the structure shown, for example, in Patent No. 1,069,779, issued to me on August 12, 1913.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a metallic tie which is durable and eflicient in construction and has means combined therewith whereby rails of different sizes can be connected readily thereto.

A. further object is to provide means whereby the tie is stiffened both longitudinally and transversely.

With 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 accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.y

In said drawings :-Figure 1 is a plan view of a tie having the present improvements combined therewith. Fig. 2 is a plan View of one end portion of the tie with the rail brace removed. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one end portion of the tie with the rail chair and the rail fastening means removed. Fig. 4L is a section on line A-B Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section on line CD Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a section on line E-F Fig. l. Fig. 7 is a section on line G-H Fig. 2. Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the rail chair. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of said chair inverted. Fig. 10 is a perspective view of the rail brace.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates the side members of the tie, the same being formed preferably of sheet metal and being provided adjacent their ends with outstanding bottom flanges 2. The terminals of the side strips or mem- Speccation of Letters Patent.

Patented June 15, 1915. Serial No. 866,343.

bers 1 are extended inwardly toward each other as at 3 and provided with inwardly directed. flanges l. These flanges are welded or otherwise secured to intermediate longitudinal partition strips 5, each of which is provided, at one end, with a laterally extended portion 6 having an inwardly directed flange 7. The partition strips 5 are oppositely disposed so that they can be assembled as shown and, when welded or otherwise secured at their ends, will form a one-piece tie body.

The outturned flanges 2 are riveted or otherwise secured to bottom plates 8 on which are formed longitudinal and transverse ribs 9 designed to engage the road bed. These ribs serve to prevent the tie from crefleping, either transversely or longitudina y.

Interposed Ibetween the side strips 1 and the intermediate or partition strips 5 are channel strips l0 riveted, welded, or otherwise secured to the tie body and the side channel strips 10 have upstanding tongues 12. Another set of channel strips 13 is provided, these strips being located between the side strips 1 and the partition strips 5 and being spaced from the channel strips 10 a distance somewhat greater than the width of they base of a rail of maximum size. These channel strips 13 have short upstanding tongues 14. The space between the

channel strips

10 and 13 is filled with series of channel strips 15 forming a cellular support for a rail chair which is adapted to fit snugly between the

tongues

12 and 14 and is of the peculiar construction hereinafter described.

Channel strips 15 are welded or otherwise secured in the tie between the strips 1 and the partition strips 5 and are spaced from the channel strips 13 so as to form pockets 16. These pockets are adapted to receive tongues 17 depending from a rail brace 18 such as shown in detail in Fig. 10, and the intermediate tongue 17 has a bolt opening 19 for the reception of a bolt 20 which is extended transversely through those

channel strips

10, 15 and 15 located between the partition strips 5. When this bolt is in place, the rail brace 18 is held securely in position and the same bolt 20 is also designed to engage rail fastening plate 21, as shown particularly in Figs. 5 and 6 and has a dependupon the base platenear its inner side. De-

pending tongues 25 are provided along the sides of the base plate 22 and are adapted to project into .the tie between the partition' strips 5 and between the side strips 1. De-V pending end flanges 26 are also provided to overl-lens end ensese the side ,strips .1- These roll theirs fit .snugly between the .nP- stnntlins tongues l2 and lst and are adapted t0 be needs in different sizes and shapes7 to adapt ,them for use in connection with rails of sli-ferent sir/ es .For exemple. Where the chairs are to be used in connection with rails of the nlnXnllnl width, the .distance between the flanges 23 and 24 will b e equal to the base of the largest rail. Where the chairs ere .to be nseol with smaller ,sized rails. however, the distance between the ribs 23 and 24e must be the saine as the width of the bases of the rails Tbeloottorn .ieee .of the Chair bese -22 is formed with intersecting grooves Q7, these grooves being adapted to receive the upper edges of the channel strips 15 and partition strips 5.

In ,order to attach a rail to the tie, the said rail is placed in position upon the @heir so that the sides of its base flanges will fit snugly against the flanges V23 and 9.4:. The upstand-ing flange 23 isgthen bent over the enter base dense of the rsil bv Usine' n Sledge, or the like after which the upstanding tongnes 14C are bent over into engagement with the adjacent side of the rail chair. The tongues 17 of the rail brace are then inserted into the pockets 1.6, the brace 18 bearing against the outer side of the rail. The tongues 12 are then bent over theinner side of the rail chair after which an attaching plate 21 is placed in engagement with the tie, the upper portion of the attaching plate lapping the chair, the inner flange 2li thereon, and the inner base flange of the rail. The bolt 20, when inserted through the series of channel strips 15 will hold the rail brace and the fastening plate 21 securely in position.

The intermediate portion of the tie can be reinforced by means of channel strips 28 interposed between the side strips 1 and the partitionstrips 5 and welded or otherwise secured thereto. Any desired number of these channel strips can be used. It is also to be understood that any desired number of longitudinal or partition strips ,5. een be ernployed In order that the tie may be properly sti-ffened throughout its length, the upper edges 1. A metallic railway tie including par- Y Vallel side and partition strips having laterally extended flanged terminals secured together, and channeled transversely disposed strips interposed between and secured to the side and partition strips and constituting connections therebetween. Y

2. A metallic railway tie including parallel side and partition strips having laterally extended flanged terminals secured together, and channeled transversely disposed strips interposed between and secured to the side and partition strips and forming a eellular chair support. y

3. A metallic railway tie including parnllel side and partition .strips having laterally extended flanged terminals `secured -together, and channeled transversely disposed strips interposed between and secured to the side. and partition strips .and Yforming a oellnlar support, and a rail elisir bearing downwardly .on the support, .said .chair havingin- `tersecting grooves for the reception of the upper Aedge portions of the said transverse channel strips and the longitudinal parti- .tion stripsd. A metallic railway tie including parallel side and partition strips having laterally extended flanged terminals secured together, channeled transversely disposed strips interposed between and seonreol to the side partition strips and forming'a cellular support, a rail Chair bearing downwardly on the support, said ehair having intersecting grooves for the reception of the upper edge portions of the said transverse channel strips andthe longitudinal parti- .tion strips, .and benda-ble means integral with certain of the channel strips for ler 1,:, faging the chair to hold the same engage- Inent with its eellnler support.. i

.5. A Inetallio railway tie inelnding spaced longitudinal .side and partition strips heving offset terminals connected together and constituting spacing means, there being out-l standing flanges upon the side strips, spaced plates secured to said outstanding flanges, and channeled strips interposed between said longitudinal side and partition strips and extending transversely of the tie, said channel strips seenred to and constituting transverse braces for the longitudinal strips.

6. A metallic railway tie including spaced longitudinal sidev and partition strips having oiset terminals Connected together and oonstitntlng spacing Ineens, there being outystand'nlg flanges .upon the side strips, spaced Plates Secured to said outstanding flanges, channeled strips interposed between said lonsov gitudinal side and partition strips and eX- tending transversely of the tie, said channel strips secured to and constituting transverse braces for the longitudinal strips, and longitudinally extending reinforcing flanges upon the upper and lower edges of the side strips.

7. A metallic railway tie including longitudinal side and partition strips having laterally extended terminal portions secured together to constitute spacing means and to form the end walls of the tie, transversely disposed channel strips interposed between and secured to the side and partition strips and forming a chair support, a chair bearing downwardly upon said channel strips, bendable tongues integral with certain of the channel strips and adapted to engage the side portions of the chair, and a bendable rail engaging ange upon the chair.

8. A metallic railway tie including longitudinally disposed side and partition strips having laterally extended end portions secured together to constitute spacing means and to form the end walls of the tie, strips interposed between and secured to the side and partition strips and coperating therewith to form a cellular chair support, a chair having intersecting grooves in its bottom face for the reception of the upper edges of the cellular support, tongues depending from the chair and interposed between the side and partition strips, and upstanding rail engaging flanges upon the chair.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FURNEY F. GREEN.

Witnesses:

IVY E. SIMPSON, HELEN ZIMMERMAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.