US1495392A - Guard-rail clamp - Google Patents

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May 27, 1924. 1,495,392

OH. BATSON GUARD RAIL CLAMP Filed Jan. 14. 1924 FIGIB FIGIQ- PIGIE FIG'E a. .T 24 lg G -41. 1 1

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CHARLES 1-1. BATSUH ATTORNEYJ' Patented May 27, 1924.

CHARLES H. IBA'ISON, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

GUARD-BAIL CLAMP.

Application filed January 14, 1924. Serial No. 686,165.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. BATSON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Guard-Rail Clamps, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention relates generally to rail guards or in other words short sections of rails having outtnrned opposite ends which are commonly placed along and in spaced relation to main railway rails oppo site switch frogs or in other places where it may develop that danger exists of the wheels slipping laterally from the rails, and the primary object of my invention is to provide means whereby switch guard rails and those portions of the main rails adjacent to the guard rails may be quickly and effectively secured in place and clamped in the desired spaced relation and thereafter maintained in their connected relation with little if any danger of accidental displacement.

A further object of my invention is the provision of a tie plate especially adapted to the connection of main and guard rails as well as one which may be easily and quickly applied and will be effective at all times for the intended purposes.

In the accompanying drawing which illustrates my present invention and forms a part of this specification,

Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating the practical application of my invention,

Figure 2 is an enlarged top plan view of a section of main rail and its guard rail connected in accordance with my invention,

Figures 3 and i are respectively a top plan and side view of one of the sections of my improved tie plate,

Figures 5 and 6 are respectively a top plan and a side view of the other section of my improve-d tie plate,

Figure 7 is a vertical transverse section taken substantially on line 77 of Figure 2, and

Figure 8 is a partial vertical transverse section taken substantially on line 8-8 of Figure 2.

Referring now to these figures and particularly to Figure 1 I have shown by way of example use of a guard rail 10 adjacent to one of the main rails 11 opposite a switch frog generally indicated at 12, and across ties 13 upon which my improved tie plates generally indicated at 14 in this figure are applied so as to efi'ectively'unite and connect the guard and main rails 10 and 11 in their properly spaced relation.

The guard rail 10 is show-n in Figures 1 and guard rails, as indicated in dotted linesin Figure 2.

Each of the tieplates generally indicated at lt in Figure 1 and better shown in Fig ures 2, 7 and 8 as well as in detail in Figures 3 to 6 inclusive, consists of a section 16 having a lengthwise slotted body of which the slot 17 opens through one end forming side portions 18 and is provided atits inner end with a beveled wall 19. This section of the tie plate has spike receiving apertures 20 at both ends and adjacent to their free ends, the side portions 18 are provided with upstanding lugs 21 shaped to extend over the base of the guard rail and against the web of the rail continuously from its base to its head as particularly seen by reference to Figure 7. I p

The other section 22 of the tie plate-shown in Figures 5 and 6, has a spike receiving aperture 23 at one end and is shaped to interfit the slot 17 of section 16 and is provided at its opposite end with a beveled end surface 24: and with an upstanding lug 25 of similar shape to the lugs 21, adapted to extend over the base of the main rail 11 and against the web of the rail continuously from its base to its head as clearly seen in Figure 7.

The relatively engaging beveled surfaces 19 and 24 of the sections 16 and 22 of each tie plate thus serve, when pressure is applied upon the main rail as by the passing of rolling stock thereover, to force the two tie plate sections in such direction as to move their oppositely facing main and guard rail engaging lugs 21 and 25 toward one another into especially tight clamping engagement with the rails which the tie plates are intended to connect, the rails being clamped together with interposed members adapted to maintain the same in properly spaced re lation.

The spacing members just above referred to are in accordance with my invention in the form of complementary wedge members 26 and 27 placed opposite each tie plate or in other words in line with the relative movement of the two sections of each tie plate, each pair of complementary wedge members having their inclined relatively engaging faces vertically corrugated or ribbed whereby they may be driven relatively to one another into the desired active position and thereafter held in such position against danger of accidental displacement by virtue of the clamping of the rails against the spacing wedges.

My invention thus provides a main and guard rail connection adapted not only to properly space the rails but to clamp the same in connected relation, as well as a conuection which will be effective and efficient at all times and whose effectiveness is increased when greatest efficiency is needed or in other words when rolling stock is passing over that section of the main rail to which the guard rail is applied.

I claim:

1. A main rail and a guard rail therefor, having spacing members therebetween and a connecting clamp, the latter in the form of a tie plate including a pair of interfitting clamping sections having oppositely facing rail engaging lugs, said sections of said tie plate also having relatively engaging in clined surfaces acting to draw the rail engaging lugs toward one another when pressure is applied upon the main rail so as to increase the clamping pressure against the rails through said spacing members.

2. A main rail and a guard rail therefor, having spacing wedges therebetween whose inclined engaging faces are ribbed, and

clamping means clamping the rails together through said spacing wedges, in the form of tie plates, each tie plate including a pair of inter-fitting clamping sections having oppo sitely facing lugs engaging the main and guard rails and also having relatively engaging inclined surfaces acting to shift the lugs toward one another when pressure is applied downwardly upon the main rail as described.

3. A main rail and a guard rail therefor having spaced members therebetween and a connecting clamp, the latter in the form of a tie plate including a pair of clamping sections one of which is slotted along its center and through one end, said section being provided with an inclined wall at the inner end of its said slot and with upstanding rail engaging lugs adjacent to the free ends of its side portions, the other section interi'itting the slot of the first section having an inclined wall at one end engageable with the inclined wall at the inner end of the slot of the first section and also having adjacent the said end wall an upstanding rail engaging lug facing opposite to the lugs of the first section When the two sections are to gether.

4:. A main rail and a guard rail therefor, having spacing members therebetween and a connecting clamp, the latter in the form of a tie plate including a pair of inter-fitting clamping sections, one section having a lug engaging one of said rails and the other sec tion having lugs engaging the other rail, said plates having relatively engaging inclined portions tending to draw the rail engaging lugs toward one another when pressure is applied upon the main rail.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

CHARLES H. BATSQN.

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