US126035A - Improvement in railway rail-splices - Google Patents
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- My invention consists of two bars, one or both of which is elastic, the said bars being adapted and bolted to adjoining rails, substantially in the manner described hereafter, and the whole forming a simple and economical device for serving the twofold purpose of splicing two adjoining rails and retaining the nuts of the bolts.
- Figure 1 is a transverse section of a rail with my improved elastic splice; Fig. 2, a sectional plan on the line 1 2, Fig. 1, and Fig. 3, a modification of my invention.
- a and A are two substantial but slightly elastic splicingbars, which I prefer to make of steel, but which may be made of wrought-iron, rendered slightly elastic byv cold rolling or otherwise. Whether these bars be of steel or iron, I consider it best to bend them while cold to the desired segmental form represented.
- the bars are made to fit the adjoining rails, as shown in Fig. 1, and are secured, with their convex sides against the rails, by simple bolts B B, on tightening the nuts a. a. of which the bars will become fiat, or nearly so, and yet possess such inherent elasticity that their tendency to recoil and assume their original segmental form will prevent the nuts from turning.
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Description
A. B. DAVIS.
Improvement in Rail Splice-Piece.
No. 126,035. PatentedAprH23fl872.
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AUGUSTUS B. DAVIS, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.
IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY RAlL-SPLICES.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,035, dated April 23, 1872.
Specification describing an Improved Rail- Splice, invented by AUGUSTUS B. DAVIS, of the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania.
Improved Rail-Splice.
My invention consists of two bars, one or both of which is elastic, the said bars being adapted and bolted to adjoining rails, substantially in the manner described hereafter, and the whole forming a simple and economical device for serving the twofold purpose of splicing two adjoining rails and retaining the nuts of the bolts.
In the drawing, Figure 1 is a transverse section of a rail with my improved elastic splice; Fig. 2, a sectional plan on the line 1 2, Fig. 1, and Fig. 3, a modification of my invention.
On reference to Figs. 1 and 2, A and A are two substantial but slightly elastic splicingbars, which I prefer to make of steel, but which may be made of wrought-iron, rendered slightly elastic byv cold rolling or otherwise. Whether these bars be of steel or iron, I consider it best to bend them while cold to the desired segmental form represented. The bars are made to fit the adjoining rails, as shown in Fig. 1, and are secured, with their convex sides against the rails, by simple bolts B B, on tightening the nuts a. a. of which the bars will become fiat, or nearly so, and yet possess such inherent elasticity that their tendency to recoil and assume their original segmental form will prevent the nuts from turning.
On tightening the nuts the bars will have a slight tendency-to spring outward in the middle, and this may be counteracted by the introduction of a bolt near the ends of the rails; but this bolt is not essential in carrying out my invention, although it is to be preferred for the heavier class of rails demanding long pressure against the bolt-head, nut, or washer,
substantially as described.
In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.
AUG. BALL DAVIS.
Witnesses:
' WM. A. STEEL,
JOHN K. RUPERTUs.
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