US1242299A - Tie-plate. - Google Patents

Description

C. D. YOUNG,

TIE PLATE. AP'PucAnon FILED JULY 6. 1915.

Patented Oct. 9

ATTORNEYS.

CHARLES D. YOUNG, 0F ALTOONA, PENNSYLV ZIP-PLATE.

the rail from creeping upon the ties; the,

provision of a tie-plate which serves to support the ends of a rail under a joint thereby making a more rigid rail connection; the provision of a tie-plate which secures a pluralit-y of ties against relative movement, thereby providing a more rigid road-bed or rail support, wherein the ties are prevented from creeping in the road-bed; the provision .of a rigid, cheap and durable tie- -plate and anti-creeping device combined,

and such other objects as may hereinafter ap ear. One embodiment of the invention an a modification thereof are shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side elevation of the tieplate showing it assembled to a rail; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the tie-plate; Fig. 3 is an enlarged section on the line IIIIII of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion of a modified form of tie-plate; and Fig. 5 is a bottom plan view of a fish-plate used with the form of tie-plate shown'in Fig. 4.

Referring to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the device consists of a plate 1 preferably of suflicient length to rest upon four ties 2. Extending longitudinally along each side of the plate 1 are guide ridges 3 which serve to hold the plate in proper alinement with respect to the rail, and when, the plate is in operative position, serve to prevent" transverse movement of the rail with respect to the plate. The plate is furnished at proper intervals with perforations 4, Fig. 2,-

through which suitable spikes 5, Fig.1, are driven. to firmly secure the tie-plate 1 to the ties 2. The heads of the spikes 5 overlap the base flange 6 of the rail 7 and thereby secure the rail to the tie-plate and the tie-plate to the ties.

Adjacent the center of thetie-plate and ateach side of the longitudinal center of Specification oi Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 9, 191?.

Application filed July 6, 1915. Serial No. 38,273

see Fig. 1, for a reason to be hereinafter descrlbed.

The tie-plate is preferably secured to four ties, two of them being on each side of a rail joint. The rail joint willthcn come directly over the center of the rectangular holes 8 and the reinforcing webs 9, the tieplate thereby assisting the fish-plates, to be hereinafter described, in rigidly supporting the rail ends. The fish-plates 11- and 12 are bolted to the rail ends in the usual manner by means of bolts 13, and are provided with a flange 14 which extends beneath the base flange 6 of the rail, aiding in the support thereof. The flanges 14 of the fishplates are of such size that they will snugly fit into the rectangular holes 8 in the tieplate when the rail is resting upon the tie-plate as shown in Figs. 1 and3. The

ends of the flanges 14 are tapered 'corresponding to the taper of the ends of the holes 8 and when the rail is spiked downto the tie-plate by means of the spikes 5, the flanges 14 are securely seated in the holes 8 with the tapered ends of the flanges engaging the tapered ends 10 ofthe holes 8, thereby holding the fish-plates securely against relative lateral motion with respect to the tie-plate.

As four ties are securely held against relatlve motion with respect to each other by means of the tie-plate, the tie-plate is therefore securely anchored against creeping in the road-bed 15 which is of the usual ballast formation. When .the fish-plates which serve as a stop member are secured to the rail and then inserted in the holes 8, in thev t1e-plate and the rail and tie-plate spiked down, the rail is positively prevented from creeping in any direction. Any tendency of the rail to creep longitudinally is resisted by the engagement of the ends of the flanges 14 with-the ends 10 of the holes 8, and any tendency of the rails to creep transversely is resisted by the ridges 3 on the plate 1, engaging the base flange 6 of the rail, and also by the sides of the flanges 14 engaging the sides of the holes 8 in the tieplate.

Referring to Figs. 4 and 5, a modified form of tie-plate and fish-plate are shown. Fig. 4 shows the central portion of a tieplate 1 having holes 8 to receive the flange 14 of a fish-plate 11, Fig. 5. In this form of tie-plate the edge of the hole adjacent the longitudinal center of the plate is curved as at 16 to receive the curved edge 17 of the fish-plate flange 14'. For all practical purposes the fish-plate 11 having a curved flange 17 is as strong in the center, or point of greatest stress, as the fish-plate 11 shown in the preferred form of the device. The flange 14: of the fish-plate 11 is curved to reduce. the unnecessary material, thereby reducing the cost of the fish-plate. In all the tie-plate to support the rail and prevent other respects the fish-plate cooperates with it from creeping, in the manner similar to that of the device previously described.

It is obvious thatva number of changes may be made in details of the construction without departing from the spirit of the invention and the invention is not limited I to the specific construction herein described.

What I claim is:

1. The combination with a railway rail having a tapered stop member, of a tie-plate adapted to support the rail and provided with a tapered'socket to receive the sto member, and means for drawing the rail and the tie-plate together whereby the tapered portions of the sto member will engage the tapered walls 0 the socket for securing therail and the tie-plate against lateral movement.

2. A tie-plate for railway rails comprismg a plate adapted tobe supported by a plurality of spaced ties and provided with perforations to receive a fish-plate carried by the rail, the said plate being reinforced by webs adjacent the edes of the perforations adapted to project firom the lower side of the plate between the ties.

3. A tie-plate for railway rails comprising a plate adapted to be supported by a plurality of spaced ties and provided with reinforcing webs struck from the plate thereby leaving Eerforations into which fishplates on the ra project to prevent relative mama lateral movement of the rail and the plate,

the said webs projecting downward between,

the spaced ties. I

4. The combination with a pair of abutting rails and a plurality of ties therebeneath, of a tie-plate beneath the rails at the joint and secured to the ties and having a portion struck down to rovide a fish-plate receiving socket, and a sh-plate secured to the rails at the joint and having its lower portion extended around beneath the base of the rail and fitting into said socket.

6. A tie plate for railway rails comprising a narrow plate adapted to connect a plurality of ties and provided with a seat for the rails throughout its entire length, and having portions of the seat on each side of the longitudinal center thereof depressed to receive the lower edges of the fish plates to prevent relative lateral movement thereof with respect to the tie plate, the said depressed portion lying beneath the base of the rail.

7. A. tie plate for railway rails comprising a narrow plate adapted to connect a plurality of ties and provided with a seat for the rail throughout its entire length, and having sockets in the seat on each side of the longitudinal center thereof to receive the lower portions of the fish plates to prevent relative lateral movement thereof with respect to the tie plate, the said sockets lying beneath the base of the rail.

8. The combination with a rail, having fish plates provided with downwardly extending tapered portions, of a tie plate for supporting the rail provided with sockets having tapered sides .ada ted to engage the tapered portions of the sh plates and prevent relative lateral movement thereof with respect to the tie plates when the fish plates are drawn into engagement with the tie plates.

sh-plate secured to

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