US1408134A

US1408134A - Track drain

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Publication number: US1408134A
Application number: US499233A
Authority: US
Inventors: Walter T O'donnell
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-09-08
Filing date: 1921-09-08
Publication date: 1922-02-28
Anticipated expiration: 1939-02-28

Description

W. T. ODONNELL.

TRACK DRAIN. APPLICATIONFILED SEPT-8| 1921.

Patented Feb. 2 8, 1922.

nvemto i UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WALTER T. ODONNELL, OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO.

TRACK DRAIN.

i .resaca Application filed September To all whom, t may concern.'

Be it known that I, l'VaI/rnn T. @Dorixnnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lakewood, in the county ot' G yahogav and State or' Ohio, havefinvented certain new and useful Improvements in a Tra-ck Drain, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to track drains, and the general object of the invention is to provide a drain box i'or railway tracks which are paved. As constructed the drain box promotes rapid flushing and draining through an inclined discharge opening and connection at one endet the box and through a straight sloping drain pipe without abrupt crooks or elbows at the box, thereby preventing clogging and making the drain pipe accessible for inspection and cleansing from the center ot the track, and permitting complementary drain boxes to be used in double tracks with separate drain pipes converging on straight lines from theV separate drain boxes to a single sewer pipe located centrally between the double tracks.

In the drawing accompanying this application, Fig. l is a plan view or a short stretch ot' a double-track street railway ernbodying a pair orset of my improved drain boxes arranged oppositely therein, and Fig. 2 is a vertical cross section ot the tracks and drain boxes and their sewer connections.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section ot one drain box on line 3-3 ot Fig. 2, showing the grid cover raised and unseated. Fig. Ll is a bottoni view of one of said drain boxes. Fig. 5 is a sectional View of a slightly modified form of the invention.

I am aware of the use of drain boxes for street railways wherein a sewer connection is made with an outletcentrally located within the bottom of the box and with which it is necessary to use an elbow to eii'ect a sewer connection, especially when the main sewer pipe is at one side of the track. To overcome vital objections in the actual use et such drain boxes and their connections I provide a drain box 2 ci cast metal which is relatively narrow and long and comprises fiat studded top ends 3 sloping slightly toward the middle chamber portion of the box which has a depressed border seat i for a removable open grid or cover 5. The bottom Got the box is inclined downwardly be- Specication of Letters latent.

Patented Feb. 28, 1922.

s, rsa1. serial No. 499,233.

ginning at one end and terminating in a rounded outlet T at its opposite end where a flanged i'lat tace S is formed at a reverse inclination to the sloping bottom 6 so that a separate short straight pipe extension 9 may be bolted thereto at a vertical inclination with the axis thereof extending toward the middle or center of the open upper side of the box. In Fig. 5, outlet extension 9 is shown as integral with the box, but I prefer using a separable extension affixed to a short flanged outlet for several practical reasons. depending apron or flange l0 is also provided at each end of the box which is adapted to. rest upon the base flanges ot the railroad rails R to support the box substantially iiush with the pavement, and the bottoin 6 is preferably rounded transversely (see Fig. 3) to facilitate drainage and` prevent accumulation ot matter therein.

llhen two suoli drain boxes are placed oppositely in a double track railway the outlet ends are placed at the inner sidesof the tracks :facing each other so that separate sewer pipe connections lll-11 may be extended on straight converging lines to and within a stand-pipe or a main sewer connection l2 located centrally beneath and between the pair of tracks.

The line of discharge from each drain box being direct and straight to the sewer, each line ol pipe can be inspected, reached and cleaned with facility and despatch by merely removing cover 5, and no accumulation of matter or clogging of the box will occur with the inclined out-let 7 arranged and constructed as shown.

That I claim is:

l. A track drain, comprising a relatively y and upper open side of said box, and a removable grid tor said box.

2. A relatively narrow and long track drain, comprising a cast-metal box having depending supporting walls at its opposite ends and a sloping bottom extending lengthwise of the box and terminating in round outlet at one end of said box, said outlet beingextended toward the end oi the box and downwardly at an inclination rto permit a sewer pipe connection to be made therewith on a straight line extending toward the middle upper side of Said box.

3. An elongated drain box 'for railway tracks, having a partly open and partly studded closed top With depending supporting- Hanges at opposite ends thereof and provided with a rounded bottom sloping` doWnwardly toward one end and terminating in a round outlet and extension projected downwardly at an acute inclination to perposed between the parallel tracks thereof.y

each box having a ve1ticallyinclined outlet at its bottoni, and `Separate sewer pipe connections extending from said outlets on ystraight coni/erging lines to a common discharge connection located centrally between said double tracks.

1WALTER T. GDONNELL.