US1331447A - Rail-joint - Google Patents

Description

I. MSZROS.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPTIZ. 1919- 1,831,447.

Patented Feb. 17, 1920.

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JNos nsznos, or EAST MILLsBono, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

Application ledSeptember 26, 1919.

To all 'whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JNos MsZRos, a citizen of Hungary, residing at East Millsboro, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of which the Jfollowing is a specification. v

This invention has reference to improvements in means for connecting the meeting ends of railway rails.

In carrying out my invention it is my purpose to produce rails having means integrally Jformed at the ends thereof for co-engaging with similar' rails whereby a perfect joint is produced between the rails without absolutely necessitating the employment of iish plates or other connecting means.

lt is a further object of the invention to produce an improved means for connecting the meeting ends oi rails wherein each of the rails is provided at one of its ends with a base extension having a wedge slot or opening therein and the other end having a wedge tongue to be received in the slot of the coacting rail whereby the rails may be easily, quickly and effectively connected.

The foregoing objects and others which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood may be accomplished by a construction such as is illustrated by the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is an elevation of a plurality of rails constructed in accordance with this invention.

Eig. 2 is a greatly enlarged transverse sectional View approximately on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal sectional View approximately on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a plan view of one of the rail ends.

Fig. 5 is a'bottom plan view of the other end of the rail.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view ot the rail end illustrated in Fig. 4L.

Fig. 7 is a similar view ot the rail end illustrated in Fig. 5.

All of the rails are similarly formed and therefore the reference characters denoting the parts of one may be understood as equally applicable to similar parts illustrated in the other rails.

Each of the rails is broadly indicated by Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1920.

Serial No. 326,425.

the numeral S and has itsbody portion constructed in the usual manner to include a head 9, a base 10 and a web 11 connecting the head and base.

The base 10 may, if desired, be of a greater thickness than that of the ordinary rail, Vbut in any event the base at one of the ends ol' the rail is provided with an extension l2 which is of a thickness greater than that of the ordinary rail or greater than the base proper oi the rail illustrated. This extension presents a flat top, and, of course, a flat bottom. The extension from the outer end thereof is formed with a dove-tailed slot or notch 13. The angle side walls of the notch 13 are preferably inclined or beveled inwardly from the top to the bottom oi the extension 12.

The base portion at the opposite end of the rail 3 is formed with a dove-tailed tongue 14, the said tongue having its outer end terminating with the outer end of the rail proper and extending inwardly of the rail a length equaling that or' the length of the notch 13. The side walls oia the tongue 14 are beveled in an opposite direction to the beveled side walls or' the notch 13, so that a snug engagement between the said side walls of the tongue and the said side walls of the notch will be eifected when the rails are connected. ln addition to this, the beveled walls of the tongue limit the downward movement of one of the rails, as the co-engagement therewith with the inwardly inclined beveled walls of the notch prevent the tir-st mentioned rail end being moved downwardly through the notch a distance sufiicient to bring the heads or' the co-engaging rails out of disalinement.

ln connecting the rails, one of the rails provided with the tongue has its end elevated over the liat extension 12 of a rail which is secured to the ties so that its tongue may be readily slid into the notch of the second mentioned rail. Thereafter the last mentioned rail is spiked to the ties 15, and in this manner the track may be easily and Quickly laid. lVhile with my construction the employment of fish plates is not an absolute requirement, such plates may be employed if desired.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new7 isz- Railway rails each having one of its ends provided with a thickened extension prethereof which extends inwardly and which senting an uppei flat Surface which isA has itshside Walls beveled in an opposite diforrned with a dove-tailed slot that enters reotion from those of the notch, and the 10 from the outer end thereof Aand the side tongue of one ofthe rilsl' designed to'be 5 Walls provided by the slot being beveled in- I'CelVGd in the IIOCh 0f the (I0-acting Teil.

Wardly, the other end of the rail having a In testmony whereof I MEX my Signnt1`ethickened dove-tailed tongue at the end Y JNOS MSZROS.v

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