US1195564A

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Publication number: US1195564A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1916-08-22
Anticipated expiration: 1933-08-22

Description

E. E. DAVENPORT.

RAIL HOLDING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 6. I916.

1,195,564} v PatentedAug. 22,1916.

ELMER E. DAVENPORT, or oHIcAeo, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF T0 MERwIN a.

DAVENPORT, OF BARABQO, WISCONSIN.

RAIL-HOLDING MEANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 22, 1916.

Application filed May 6, 1916. Serial No. 95,795.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELMER E. DAVENPORT, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Holding Means, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of this invention is to provide an improved form of railroad railholding means particularly adapted for holding the rail firmly and securely to the ties through long and continued usage.

An illustrative embodiment of this invention is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the rail holding means. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation showing the same as applied to the track. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line B-B of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a top plan of a section of track showing the rail holding means used in connection therewith.

This invention relates to improvements in railholding means of the general type disclosed in my copending application, Serial No. 92,856 in which the rails are held by members which are secured to the ties by spikes driven in a direction transverse to a vertical plane so that the vertical pull of the rails is crosswise of the spikes and does not cause them to loosen.

Endwise pull on the spikes soon loosens them and they have to be reset. When a spike is once loosened a little, the knocking or pounding on the under side of the spike head causes a very rapid pulling of the spikes, for as the play between the rail and spike head increases, the pounding becomes harder and assumes the nature of a blow.

The present invention also provides an arrangement whereby the spikes that hold the rail holding members may be driven into the tie and at the same time drawn downward as they are driven in such manner that the rail is tightly wedged between the rail holding member and the tie.

In the construction shown in the drawings the rail holding means comprises a member having a body part 17 a part or lug 18 lo cated at one end of the body part and adapt ed to bear down upon the base flange of the rail. -A tapered tailpiece 19 is provided at the other end of the body part 1, and has a round hole 20 formed therein for receiving a spike 21 about which the member may be pivotally moved. The body part 17 is also provided with a vertically disposed slot 22 located between the hole 20 and lug 18 and adapted to receive a spike 23 which may be driven therethrough into a tie 24. Spike 23 is driven into the tie at a slightly downward slant as shown in Fig. 3, and as it is driven it is drawn or bent downward so as to wedge the base flange of the rail tightly between the lug 18 and the tie 24. The full lines show the spike in the starting position, and the dotted lines show it in its final position. In the dotted outline the spike is shown slightly wider than in full outline in order to avoid having the dotted lines coincide with the full lines throughout part of their 7 length.

The operation is believed to be apparent from the foregoing description, and it is to be understood that the improved rail holding means are to be used in conjunction with the usual rail spikes. With the use of this form of rail holding means ties of soft wood may be safely used, and the spikes will not be drawn therefrom.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention is herein shown and described, it will be understood that the construction may be altered or details omitted without departing from the spirit of the invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim:

1. A rail holding member having a body part, a lug adapted to hold a rail and a tail part, said tail part having a round hole for receiving a spike and said body part having a vertically disposed slot for receiving a spike, all for the purposes herein set forth.

2. Rail holding means, comprising a member, a part on one end of said member for holding a rail, the other end of said member having a hole therein for receiving a spike about which said member may pivotally move and said member having a second hole located between said rail holding part and said first mentioned hole,

adapted to receive a spike for drawing said rail holding part tightly against a rail.

3. Rail holding means comprising a member, a part on one end of said member for holding a rail, the other end of said member having a hole therein for receiving a spike about Which said member may pivotally move and said member having an elongated hole adapted to receive a spike for drawing said rail holding part tightly against the rail. 7

Signed at Chicago this 4th day of May, 1916.

ELMER E. DAVENPORT.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Copies 01' this patent may be obtained for 7 Washington, D. C.