US1162976A

US1162976A - Splice-bar or holder.

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Publication number: US1162976A
Application number: US80724813A
Authority: US
Inventors: Firm B Byers
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1913-12-17
Filing date: 1913-12-17
Publication date: 1915-12-07
Anticipated expiration: 1932-12-07

Description

F. B. BYERS.

SPLIGE BAR 0R HOLDER.

APPUCATIDM men DEC. n. 1913.

Pmmi m. "z, 1915 M? m mam I N tweets.

FIRM B. BYERS, OF NEW YUEK, N. Y.

srLIcnBan. on HOLDER.

b all whom 'itmay concern:

Be it'known that I, FIRM B. Brass, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Splice-Bars or Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention is directed to improvements in splice bars or holders for rails, and has for its object to provide a device of this character so constructed that when clamped upon the base flanges of'the rail the likelihood of breaking or cracking of the base flanges is eliminated.

A further object of the invention is to provide splice bars or holders for application at "the meeting ends of rail sections, or immediate the ends thereof, said splice bars being adapted to rest upon a plurality of ties so as to prevent the same from moving toward or away from each other.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a. device of this character which will operate with equal success upon sixty foot rails or the conventional thirty foot rail, said device being so constructed as to permit the usual expansion and contraction due to the change of temperature, but at the same time preventing sliding or buckling of the rails usually prevalent due to heavy tratlic thereover. l

A still further object of the invention is to provide a splice or holder which will-impart to the rails the necessary stability. With these and other objects in view, this invention resides in the novel features of construction, formation, combination and. arrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the device. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is an end View. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view through the device.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 designates the usual. rail sections, which comprise the webs and base flanges 2 and 3, respectively, said webs being provided with the usual bolt openings 4, and through which clamping bolts 5 are passed.

The splice bars 6 are provided with aper- Specification of Letters Patent.

tion upon the meeting ends of the rails, or

' "lugs 8, the lower edges of which being disposed below the plane oi. the flanges 9, said lugs having their opposite ends integrally connected to the adjacent ends of the flanges 9 by angularly shaped tie engaging sections 10 which are downwardly inclined so to more readilyengage the confronting faces of the ties 11.

Formed near the outer end of each bar or holder 6 are tie engaging sections 12, the same being also angularly shaped and are inclined outwardly so as to engage the outer. faces of the ties l1.

The sections 12 are integrally connected to the flanges 9 by the plates 13, said plates serving to efi ectuallybrace the sections 32.

The flanges 9 are adapted to rest upon the ties 11, and at which time the tie engaging sections 10 and 12 will engage the ties so as to prevent creeping thereof, and at the sametime the bars or holders will be held against creeping. Y

The base flan es 3 of the rails rest upon the fiat surfaces 1% of the flanges 9, said sur' Patented Dec, '"Z, Application filed December 17, 1913. Serial No. 8015248.

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faces terminating at their outer sides in channels 15, said channels being of dimensions that will permit the outer edges of the base flanges to project thereinto so that space 1'6 is formed above the outer edge the basefiange, and a space 17 below the same, thus preventing the initial weight of the trailic from breaking the rail base flanges, as the weight of the trafiic will be equalized at the points A, B and C, said points being vertically alined so that the weight of the trailic will be received. upon the flanges 9.

, When sixty foot rails are in nse the bars 1 or holders will not only he clamped at, the

meeting ends of the rails, but will be placed intermediate thereof,vv thus permitting the use of such rails, which would spread or buckle it the bars or holders were applied only at the meetin ends as the slidin movement of a sixty foot rail is greater than that of a thirty foot rail.

What is claimed is The combination with a track rail, of splice bars having integral rail base receiv ing flanges, the ends of said flanges having formed therewith inwardly directed plates, said plates being connected at their inner edges to the flanges by outwardly inclined triangular sections, inwardly and downwardly directed lugs formedi'ntegrai with the; base flanges intermediate their ends, tie engaging sections connecting the ends of the lugs to the flanges, said tie engaging sections being disposed opposite the first named sections; and being adapted to engage the confronting sides of a pair of ties when the first named sections engage the outer sides of said pair of ties.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 1 my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FIRM B. BYERS.

Witnesses SULLIVAN V. JOHNSON, Rom. E. MATTiNGLY.