US1240408A

US1240408A - Multiple-rail chair.

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Publication number: US1240408A
Application number: US13754116A
Authority: US
Inventors: Benjamin B Betts
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-12-18
Filing date: 1916-12-18
Publication date: 1917-09-18
Anticipated expiration: 1934-09-18

Description

B. B. BETTS.

MULUPLE RAIL CHAIR. APPLICATION F|LED)DEC.18| 1916.

1,240,408, PatentedSept. 18,1917.

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To all whom it mag concern; I,

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN B. Bn'r'rs, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Louis,'State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ItTlIltlPlG-Rflll Chairs, of which the following is a specification containing a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention relates to improvements in multiple rail chairs wherein a unitary structure provides seats and securing means for a number of rails whose base flanges are to be maintained at different elevations.

The object of my improvements is to provide a chair providing seats for a main running rail and a siding running rail in the'same plane but at a relative angular relationship and a seat in a plane above the mentioned seats and alining with the seat of the siding running rail whereby: to provide in a single unitary structure a chair for a main running rail and a siding run ning rail of substantially the same dimensions and weight and for a switch point rail of dimensions and weight differing from the other rails. V

In the accompanying drawing, made a part of this specification,

Figure 1,- shows in 'plan'a chairembodying my improvements, a fragment ofa main running rail, a fragment of a siding running rail and a fragment of a switch point rail.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the chair, and

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional elevation taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1.

Referringto the drawing by numerals, 5 designates the main running rail, 6 the siding running rail and 7 the switch-point rail, and it is to be particularly noted that the two running rails 5 and 6 are much, larger than the switch-point rail, the said running rails being for example one hundred pound rails, and-the'switch-point rail being an eighty pound rail.

The lighter weight of the switch point rail allows for more easily moving the same as required for switching purposes.

In rail manufacturing when changes are made in rail weights a corresponding change is made in their sectional dimensions, hence, the. switch point rail will be less in height from the top of the ball to the bottom of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 18, 191?.

Application fiIed December 18, 19116. -Seria1No. 137,541.

the base and less. in width from side to side of'its base flanges than the running rails.

For this reason 1 construct my chair with rail seats .of different widths and in difl er en't planes to the end that rails of different weights when supported thereby will have theirballs in substantially the sal'ne plane and certain of the rails in relative alincment withrespect to their balls.

The numeral 8 designates the plate as a whole, which is of substantially rectangular oblong shape, its greater dimension disposed lengthwise of its supporting sleeper and its lesser dimension disposed in the trend of the rails supported thereby. Near one end of the chair there is an upstanding shoulder Qwhich partially defines the seat 10 for the main runningrail 5. Intersectingthe shonl der and extended through the body of the chair are the spike openings 11 wherebyv to secure the one base flange of the running rall 5 and-the one end of the chair to a sleeper. Upstanding from thebody of the chair parallel with the shoulder 9 is a flange 12 which defines the margin of the seat 10 oppositetheshoulder 9. This flange is arranged topartiallyoverhang the one flange of the rail 5 to serve as rail securing means, the spikes 13,1one only of which is shown in Fig. 3, serving to secure the opposite flange of therail 5.

Arising from the chair body adjacent the flange 12 is a shoulder 14 which extends for only a portion of the width of the chair and at an angle to the flange 12.

Paralleling the shoulder 14, and of substantially' the same length thereof and arranged at the chair end opposite the shoulder 9, is a shoulder 15, which with the shoulder 14 defines the seat 16 for the end of the siding running rail 6.

Intersecting the

shoulders

14 and 15 and extended through the chair body are the spike openings 17 whereby to secure the siding running rail to the chair.

Arising from the chair body to one side of the seat 16 is a seat 18 which stands in a'plane above the seat 16, and arising from said seat 18 at each of its ends is a flange 19 overhanging the seat whereby to secure therebetween the base flanges of the switch point rail 7.

The seat 18 alines with the seat 16 and is of a lesser width to the end that when the switch point rail is placed on the seat 18 with its base flanges inserted between the ball of the sidingrunning rail 6 and the one side face of its ball in alinement with the corresponding side face of the siding running rail 6.

By the employment of the chairembodying the arrangement of seats as described the base flange of the switch point rail may be .moved :laterally overthe base flange rail of the main running rail to the end-that the base of the switch point rail need not be reduced in width to the extent common to the employment of chairs supporting the running and switch point rails in the same plane, thereby lending to the life and safety of the switch point rail, and a consequent cost in labor in producing and installing .the switch point rail.

.I-Iavingthus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure 15y Letters Patent of the United Statesthereor 1s: v

1. 1A rail chair having a seat for a running rail at one end and a seat for a switch rail at the other end, the latterseat being at a different level-and atan angle :to the first seat.

2. A rail chair ning rail at one end .anda seat :for a switch ,railbeing at anzangle to the running rail andclocated ata higher leveL' 3. A .rail chair having aseat for a run ning rail at one end, and a seat .for aswitch rail at. the other end, the switch .rail seat being at an angle to the first seat, and at a higher level, and beingof less width.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for having .a vseat 'tor a run- 7 4. A rail chair having aseat near its one end and coextensive with its width and means for securing a rail therein, a second are in alinement and the -.remaining seat at w .an angletothe alined seats.

' 6. .Aj-rail chair provided with two seats of different elevations arranged end to end of said seats beingprovided with'hooked .fianges for securing thebaseflange of a rail andthe other being provided with shoulders and spike openings intersecting said shoul-' .ders. v

7. A vrail chair having two seats of difier- V ent widthsarrangedend.to end and occupying the width of the chair,vone of said seats being provided with hooked flanges for securingithe base flange of a rail and the-other being provided with shoulders and spike V a openings'intersecting said shoulders; .rail at the other end, the seat for vthe switch In testimony whereof, I have signed my two subscribing witnesses.

BENJAMIN'B BETTS. l/Vitnessesz Y i R. G. ORWIe,

five cents each, Jay addressing the Commissioner, of Patents, Washington, ,1). G. r V l name to this specification, in. presence of and occupying the width of the chair, one v