US1248523A

US1248523A - Rail-joint.

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Publication number: US1248523A
Application number: US7167616A
Authority: US
Inventors: Josephine Miller
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1916-01-12
Filing date: 1916-01-12
Publication date: 1917-12-04
Anticipated expiration: 1934-12-04

Description

J. MILLER.

RAILJOINT.

APPLIIZATION men mmz. 19KB- ]ratented 1060;, 4,1917.

JOSEPHINE MILLER, OF AMBRIDGE, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed January 12, 1916. Serial No. 71,676.

Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rail joints and has for its object to provide a rail chair so formed that the use of bolts and nuts is eliminated.

Another object of the invention is to pro vi de a boltlcss rail chair and means whereby the rails may be prevented from creeping therethrough.

Still another object of the invention is to provide a boltless rail chair having a combined means for preventing the creeping of either the chair or rails.

With the above and other objects in view which will be hereinafter more fully explained, I have invented the device illus trated in the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is an elevational view of my invention shown in operative connection with a pair of rail ends,

Fig. 2 is a sectional View taken on line AA Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken on line BB Fig. 1, and,

Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail perspective view of the invention.

Like reference characters indicate like parts throughout the specification and in the several views in the drawings in which 1 indicates a rail chair which consists of a base 1' having integral side walls 2 and 3 which are shaped to form a housing 4 for the bases 5 and the webs 6 of the rail ends 7 and 8, said walls 2 and 3 seating snugly against the surfaces of said bases and webs which are exposed thereto. Ordinarily the great impact of a train against the rails 7.

and 8 would cause said rails to gradually creep out of the chair 1 and thereby prove of great danger but I have overcome this difliculty by providing the opening 9 which extends transversely through the central portion of the base portion of the chair a slot 10 being provided in the base 1 to aline with the opening 9. A bar or strap 11 is inserted in said opening 9 and the lower edge 12 thereof projects into said slot 10 directly between the bases of the rail ends 7 and 8 which are notched to form a channel coincident with the slot 10, thus absolutely preventing relative movement of either the rails or the chair. The ends 13 and 14c of the bar 11 are bent against the sides of the chair after the bar has been seated in place thus preventing accidental removal of the same. hen it is desired to disconnect the rail joint all that is necessary to do is to remove the bar 11 and spikes 15 then drive the chair longitudinally along one of the rails until the joint is reached when the rails and chair may readily be separated. As an additional precaution to hold the chair in place vertical recesses 16 are provided in the edges thereof to receive the spikes 15 however, for ordinary use these recesses are not essential as the bar 11 will prevent relative movement of the chair and rails, but on railroads where the traiiic is exceptionally heavy these slots become of great assistance in holding the chair in its proper place.

Having now described my invention that which I claim to be new and desire to procure by Letters Patent is 1. The described device consisting of a chair having integral bottom and side walls between which rail ends are adapted to seat, a slot formed in the base of said chair and extending below the bottom surface of the rails and a bar seated in said slot to prevent relative movement between the chair and rails.

2. The described device consisting of a chair having integral bottom and side walls between which rail ends are adapted to seat, a slot formed in the base of said chair and extending below the bottom surface of the rails and a bar seated in said slot to prevent relative movement between the chair and rails, said bar projecting beyond both sides of said chair and adapted to be bent down at one end whereby it is retained in position.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPHINE MILLER.

Witnesses JAooB GnoMLY, CLARK BOYER.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

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