US1232067A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

M. MUS.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLiCATlON FILED JAN. I8, 1911.

1,%2$%,6? n Patented July 3, 1917.

MIGHAL MUS, OF CEDOUX, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, lslil.

Application filed January 18, 1917. Serial No. 143,131.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MIGHAL Mus, a citizen of the Dominion of Canada, and a resident of Gedoux, in the Province of Saskatchewan, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in rail joints, and the objects of the invention are to dispense with the use of fish plates and bolts, to permit of the rails being readily attached to and detached from each other, to simplify the construction of the joint and generally to adapt the same to better perform the functions required of it.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists essentially of the improved construction of joint, particularly described and set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings forming part of the same.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved rail joint.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the rail joint when seen apart.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the improved rail joint.

Fig. 4; is a longitudinal section through the web of the rail.

Like characters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A and B represent two rails adapted to be secured together and in alinement with the improved joint. Each rail section is formed at the end with a tapered tongue 10 provided at the point with an outwardly or laterally eX- tending flange 11, while the web of the rail adjacent to the rear end of the tongue is enlarged as shown at 12, and provided with a recess 13 which forms on the end of the enlargement a flange 14-, which is substantially parallel to the flange 11.

By reference to the drawing it will be readily seen that the tongues 10 of adjacent rails are formed on opposite sides, so that the flanges 11 will readily coact or engage with the recesses 13 formed at the rear of the opposite tongues.

In securing the rails together it is only necessary to lift one of the sections for instance, A and engage the flange 11 with the recess 13 of the rail B, and at the same time engage the recess 13 of the rail A with the flange 11 formed on the end of the tongue 10 of the rail B.

The rail A is now lowered under gravity and the tongues 10 will engage and the flanges 11 draw the rails A and B closely together, so that the ends of the lower flange 15 of the rails will abut.

It will be evident that any thrust is adequately taken up by the lower flanges 15 and the ends of the tongues 10, while any tendency for the rails to spread is overcome by the coacting flanges 11 and 14:.

To separate the rails, it is only necessary to lift one of the same when the joint will be broken.

From this description it will be seen that I have invented a rail joint which can be advantageously utilized on railways and which will dispense with the use of fish plates and bolts, the several parts being so arranged that they cannot get out of repair or become broken due to jarring caused by trafiic on the said rails.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of my invention, within the scope of the claim, constructed without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is intended that all mat ter contained in the accompanying specification and drawings, shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

What I claim as my invention is:

A rail joint comprising a pair of rails each provided with a tapered tongue, having a laterally extending tongue on' the point thereof, and an enlargement at the rear of said tongue having a recess therein forming with the end of the rail an inwardly extending flange, the said recess being adapted to engage with the flange of the tongue of the adjacent rail.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

MIGHAL MUS. Witnesses:

J. S. BUKOWSKI, H. W. (loonsozu.

(lopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. U.

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