US1344134A - Railway-track appliance - Google Patents

Description

A. A. JARDIN.

RAILWAY TRACK APPLIANCE. Appucflm FILED NOV. 12, 1919.

Patented June 22, 1920.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT A. JARDIN, OF CONGRESS PARK, ILLINOIS.

RAILWAY-TRACK APPLIANCE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 22, 1920.

Application filed November 12, 1919. Serial No. 337,442.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. J ARDTN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Congress Park, inthe county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvementsin Railway- Track Appliances, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. I

The invention relates to railway track appliances.

The object of the invention is to provide simple and eflicient means for preventing injury or shock to railroad cars at the ends of a track.

The invention consists in the several novel features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by claims at the conclusion hereof.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a railway track provided with the invention. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is a section taken on line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

The end of the railway track is formed of rails 5 which are laid upon ties 13 in usual manner. The ends of these rails are curved downwardly, as at 6, to permit the car wheels to run off the end of the track so that the car will be arrested by the roadway if it is pushed too far. A pile of material 14:, such as cinders which are usually available in railroad yards, is placed adjacent the end of the track and is positioned so that the body of a railroad car will strike it before its wheels leave the track. In ordinary use, this pile will be set sufficiently close to the end of the track and will inherently yield when struck by the car, thus serving as a bumper or shock absorber. If the impact should be excessive, the cinders will yield to the force of the car sufiiciently to permit the car-wheels to run off the curved end 6, thus permitting the car to be derailed so that the roadway will act in a supplemental manner to resist further movement of the car. This will usually cause the car to be arrested, even under abnormal conditions, without breakage. 1

A rerailing device is provided and consists of rail sections 7 which have straight portions 8 which are secured by bolts 11 to the inner sides of the end portions of rails 5. The treads of sections 7 and rails 5 are spaced apart by sleeves 12 so that the wheel flan es can pass between them. Beyond the trac -rails 5, the rail-sections 7 are laid upon any breakage.

ties and form converging portions 9 and there beyond. the sectionsare provided with straight portions 10 which are secured together by sleeved bolts 11. The rail sections 7 are laid upon and securedto ties 13 laid in continuation of the track rails 5.

In operation, when a car is pushed toward the end of a rail, it will strike the cinder pile 14 which forms a yielding bumper or shock-absorber and offers sufiicient resistance when the car is not propelled with excessive speed to arrest it without causing y Ii the impact of the car against the pile is excessive, the car-wheels will run off the curved end 6 of the trackrails 5 and onto the roadway, and thus there will be offered sufficient additional resistance to the further movement of the car, so that it will be stopped. When that occurs, and the car is pulled away from the pile, the converging portions 9 of the rail sections 7 will direct the wheels of the car back onto the track-rails 7, thus serving as a rerailing device.

The invention has been found to efficiently serve its purpose and is of particular ad vantage in railroad yards where a great deal of switching is done and in connection with temporary tracks.

The invention is not to be understood as restricted to the details set forth, since these may be modified within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

. Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. The combination with rails at the end of a track, having terminals which permit a car to pass ofi the track and a pile of material extending a substantial distance above the rails forming a yieldable bumper.

2. The combination with rails at the end of a track having down-turned terminals which permit a car to pass off the track and a pile of material extending a substantial distance above the rails adjacent the end of the track and forming a yieldable bumper for a. car-body.

3. The combination with rails at the end of a track having terminals which permit a car to pass ofi the track, a pile of material extending a substantial distance above the rails forming a yieldable bumper, and a rerailing device adjacent the end of the track.

l. The combination With rails at the end 01' a track having terminals which permit a car to pass off the track, a pile of material extending a substantial distance above the rails forming a yieldable bumper, and convergent rail-sections secured to the ends of the track rails and forming a rel-ailing device.

5. The combination with rails at the end of a track having downwardly curved terminals which permit a car to pass off the track, a pile of material forming a yieldable bumper, and a pair of rail sections each having a straight portion secured at the inner side of the track-rails respectively With their treads spaced from the treads of the track rails, convergent portions beyond the track forming a rerailing device, and straight portions at their outer ends secured together. i

6. The combination of a pair of rails forming a railroad track, the rails having their-ends extending downwardly, a pile of material adjacent the end of said rails and adapted to act as a shock-absorber for a car, a pair of rail sections secured inside of the rails forming the track and convergent beyond the track and having their ends secured together.

ALBERT A. JARDIN.

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