US1361532A - Rail fastening - Google Patents

Description

L. NAGY.

RAIL FASTENING.

APPLiCATloN FILED AUG.4.1920.

1,361,532, v Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

HNVENTOR ATTORNEY PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS NAGY, 0F TOLER, KEIN'ILU'CKYa RAIL-FASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 7, 1920.

Application filed August 4, 1920. Serial No. 401,203.

To all w hom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Louis NAGY, citizen of Ilungary, residing at Toler, in the county of Pike and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Itail-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

r1`his invention relates to rail fastenings, and especially to the means used in connection with rail ties for holding the rails down on said ties.

The object of this invention is the provision of efficient, durable means, capable of ready replacement and repair, for securing a railroad rail to a rail tie, and for lessening the danger caused by vibration, of the rail becoming loosened from its fastenings.

A further object of this invention is the provision of a rail fastening member on which the rails will assume the proper spaced relation when secured in place.

To attain the above and other objects, I employ the device shown in its preferred form in the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the rail tie elements and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a part of the rail fastening means.

I prefer to use a concrete railroad tie l1, which is cast around a pair of fastening elements 12, to anchor said elements in said tie. Each of said anchored elements is arranged so that the transverse center line thereof is substantially under the center line of each of rails-13, and each comprises pyramidal downwardly extending projections 15 joined at their upper extremities by a flat platelike portion 16, which has threaded rods 14 securely held therein and projecting upwardly therefrom. A long plate 17 of sufficient width to allow the proper number of rods 111-. to pass through suitable holes therein, is arranged to rest on tie 11 and on plate portion 16, suitable notches being cut in said plate 17 for the reception of rails 13 and of fastening angle plates 19.

A projection 18, adapted to engage the inner web surface of rail 13 is struck from plate 17 substantially at right angles to said plates, holes 21 being provided for the passage of bolts 20 therethrough for securing the rail, angle 19 and the projection 18 together.

Nuts 22 acting against lock washers 23, serve to hold plate 17, the rail 13 connected thereto and the angle plate 19 down to the rail tie 11, that part of angle plate 19 in engagement with the rail 13 being shaped to fit said rail.

After the rail tie 11 containing the element 12 anchored therein, has been set in place, rails 13 may be readily secured to said tie in accurate spaced relation, by first placing plate 17 in the proper position on said tie, then bringing the inner web face of each rail up against the projection 18, which is suitably shaped to fit said face, inserting angle plates 19 in the notches in plate 17 inserting bolts 20 through holes 21, placing washers 23 and nuts 22 on rods 14 and tightening the various nuts and bolts, thereby firmly securing plate 17 and the parts oonnected therewith to element 12 of the rail tie.

It will be seen that lifting action on the rail can not loosen said rail from the tie, because of the peculiar shape of the parts 15, which resist any such lifting tendencies. It will also be seen that the fastening parts can readily be replaced when necessary that the entire fastening arrangement is positive and not likely to loosen up because of vibration, and that the rails are set at the proper gage by merely fastening them on plate 17, as described.

What I claim is:

1. In a rail fastening device, a rail tie element comprising a plate-like top, pyramidal projections formed rigidly upon and extending downwardly from said top, and threadled rods fixed in and extending upwardly from said top.

2. In a rail fastening device, a rail tie, an element comprising a plate-like top, pyramidal projections extending downwardly from said top and threaded rods extending upwardly from said top, anchored in said tie, a rail receiving plate, a rail engaging angle plate, means for fastening said rails, plates and element together.

3. In a rail fastening device, a concrete rail tie, a base element anchored in said tie, and means for fastening a rail to said element, comprising a rail receiving plate resting on said tie, an upwardly extending projection on said plate adapted to engage the inner web face of a rail, an angle plate adapted toV engage the outer Web face of said rail, and means for fastening said rail, plates and element together comprising threaded rods rigid in said hase element and projecting upward through said rail receiving' plate and anchor plate, and nuts thremln ed on the ends of said bolts and hearing on said anchor plate. 10

In testimony whereof I have axed my signature.

LOUIS NAG Y.

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