US1295721A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

J.- L. EVERETT.

RAIL JOIN-T. APPLlCATlON FILED A\ JG.14, 191s.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

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JOHN L. EVERETT, .OF BERKELEY SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 25, 1919.

Application filed August 14, 1918. Serial No. 249,836.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN. L. Evnnn'r'r, a citizen of the United States, resldmg at Berkeley Springs, in the county of Morgan .as the nature of the invention is better understood, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of two ralls connected in accordance with this invention;

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view approximately on the line 33 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4: is a transverse sectional view approximately on the line l- 1 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a horizontal sectional view approximatelyon the line 55 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 6. is a perspective view of the rail chair.

In the drawings, two alining rails are indicated by the numerals 5, the same resting on ties 6, and being secured to the said ties in the usual manner.

The connecting means for the alining rails includes a chair 7.

The chair comprises a base 8 that is of a length to rest upon at least two of the ties but may, of course, be longer so as to rest on three or more of the ties. The base is formed, on its edges with upstanding portions 9 formed with inwardly extending angularly disposed flanges 10 that overlie Formed on 11. The upstanding members 9, horizontal flanges 10, and straight plates 11 are spaced away from each other a greater distance at the ends of the joint than at the center thereof, so that the rails may bev freely passed into the chair from the opposite ends of the chair.

The upstanding edges 9 of the chair are notched at suitable intervals as indicated by the numerals 12 and through these notches pass spikes 13 that enter the ties 6. The

vertical plates are provided with alining openings which register with the bolt openings in the rails. The openings in one or in both of the plates are surrounded by hexagonal pockets 14. These pockets are designed to receive nuts 15 that engage with the bolts 16 that pass through the referred to openings in the side plates of the chair and through the openings in the webs of therails. The sides of the chair, outward of the bolt openings therein are provided with reinforcing ribs 17, the said ribs being arranged on the plates 11, flanges 10 and upstanding edges 9 of the base 8. The ribs are formed with spaced transverse depressions or flutes 18, so that the ribs are substantially corrugated which materially strengthens the same. In addition to the end ribs 17, the chair is provided with a central rib 19 which is likewise provided with transverse corrugations and the central rib is of a greater width than the end rib.

It is believed, from the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the simplicity of construction and the advantages thereof will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art to which such inventions appertain without further detailed description.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is

A chair for connecting two railway rails having its rail receiving space wider at its ends than at its center, corrugated reinforcing ribs on the sides of the chair, said chair having its vertical plates provided with bolt openings, and said bolt openings, upon the Outer face of the said sides having squared depressions forming pockets to receive the nuts which engage with the bolts.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOHN L. EVERETT.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, D. 0.

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