US1155277A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

J. RONCEVICK.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-2, I915,

1,155,277. Patented Sept. 28, 1915.

Z EL QHZW JUAN/Hm JOE nononvrcx, or PARK CITY, UTAH.

I RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 28, 1915- Application filed January 2, 1915. Serial No. 143.

Joints; and I do hereby declare the follow-. ing to be a full, clear, andexact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relatesto improvements in rail joints and consists in constructing the ends of rails in such manner that they may be interlocked effectivelyand the rails prevented relative movement.

An important object of my invention is to provide simple and effective joint locking means that may be easily and quickly operated to secure the ends of rails to one another, said joint dispensing with the necessity of employing bolts or other fastening means and enabling the laying of rails in an expeditious manner.

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 in the claims.

lVith 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 side elevation of my improved rail joint. Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of one of the rails of a joint and Fig. 3 is a detail fragmentary perspective view of another of the rails.

Referring to the drawings by characters of reference, 1 and 2 designate respectively the rails of a joint. The base 3 of the rail 1 is provided with an extension 4 which is of the same width as the base and extends considerably beyond the end of the rail web and ball. This extension 4 is of less thickness than the base 3 and is flush with said base on its upper face. The base 5 of the rail 2 is provided with an extension 6 similar to the one 4, said extension 6 having its lower face flush with the lower face of the base and being of less thickness than the base. The under face of the extension 4 and the upper face of the extension 6 are recessed on one side as at 7 to provide a longitudinally disposed shoulder 8. The shoulders 8 are in alin'ement with the lon gitudinal axes of the rail bases. The exten-' slons 4 and 6 are arranged to overlap, the one 4 restingupon the one 6. The shoulders 8 abut so as to provide for the 'alinementof the rails 1 and 2. When the rails are as sembled the upper face of the extension 4 is disposed in the same plane as is the upper face of the base of each of the rails.

Formed in the web 9 of the-rail 2 and opening out at the end of said web is a horizontally disposed key hole opening .10 which comprises approximately a circular inner end 11 and similar angular sides 12.

vA locking projection or key 13 comprising a side of said ball and opening at the end face of the ball is a horizontally disposed key hole opening 15. This opening 15 opens on one side face of the ball and is designed to receive a locking key 16 carried upon the ball of the rail 1 and extending outwardly therefrom. The key 16 comprises a cylindrical head and a shank and is formedintegral with said ball of the rail 1.

In assembling the joint, the rail 2 is first placed in position and the rail 1 then moved sidewise into cooperation therewith. The keys engage in respective slots or openings and prevent relative longitudinal movement of the rails 1 and 2 when the same are assembled and also relative vertical movement. The projection 4 extends over and interlocks with the projection 6 and assists the key in preventing relative movement of the rails vertically.

with my improved joint it will be seen that rails may be quickly laid, all that is necessary being to first lay the rail 2 and then move the rails 1 into cooperative engagement therewith laterally.

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 the most efficient and practical; yet realizing that the conditions concurrent with the Web and ball respectively of such rail, and

keys carried by and projecting beyond the ends of the other rail and arranged to engage the said key h'ole openings.

2; The combination'with cooperating rails provided at their bottom flanges With over--' lapping interlocking projections, one of the rails'being provided in its Web and ball respectively With key hole openings andkeys projecting from the Web and ball ofthe other railand arranged in planes at right Gopies of this patent may be obtained for angles to each other and engaging the said key hole openings.

3. The combination With rails of a joint including bases, Webs and balls, of projections carried by the bases of the rails and arranged to overlap, the balls and ,WfibS of the rails arranged to engage each otherwhen the projections are overlapped one of said rails having key hole openings there1n,

keys carried by the other of said rails and arranged to engage into said key hole openings, said key hole openings being disposed in the Web and ball respectively ofrail, said opening in the Web opening transversely relative thereto, said opening in the" ball opening on one side of said ball. V I

V In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

' JOE RONCEVICK.

Witnesses: I 1

' GEORGE Gr. KAPovIoK,

PETER CLARK.

five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. Q. s

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