US1562088A - Railway tie - Google Patents

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Nov. 11,1925.

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unrrrzo STATES .JOHN'JL HOGAN, on sat Louis, MISSOURI.

RAILWAY TIE.

Application filed February 4, 1925. Serial No. 6,779.

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Be it known that 1, JOHN J. HOGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have, invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Railway Ties, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to improvements 1n railway ties, and more particularly to such ties as are made wholly of metal.

My primary object is to provide a tie, or sleeper, comprising a base which affords a full tamping surface under the tiewhich affords a proper ballast cushion and a pair of chairs upon which running rails may be supported and secured,,; all formed as a metallic unit.

A further. object is to provide a tie comprising a metallic chair, for the support of a running rail, having an integral lug which normally stands vertically at a point to be engaged by an edge of a rail base and designed to be bent over the rail base to se cure same to the tie.

A further object is to provide a tie constructed of sheet metal and comprising a base, affording suflicient tamping surface; integral elements upstandlng from the base against which ballast may be placed and tamped and which elements are so designed as to prevent shearing under unusual strains from rolling stock; integral elementsformed to provide hollow chairs for the rails, and a reinforcing element in the form of a hollow rib arranged to receive ballast and thereby serve to key the tie against movements relative to the roadbed.

My improvements consist in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts as hereinafter fully, clearly and concisely described, definitely pointed out 1n my claims and illustrated by the accompanying drawing, (one sheet) In which' Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a t1e constructed in accordance with my inventlon, showing one of the chairs with its rail securing lugs as originally formed and a rail supported upon the other chair with 1ts lugs bent to secure the rail.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of a blank from which the tie as shown in Fig. 1 may be formed.

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of the tie I 'Fig. t-is an end View of the tie.

Fi 5 is a transverse sectional elevation taken through the hollow reinforcing rib, and

Fig. 6 isja transverse sectional elevation taken through one of the chairs.

Referring to the drawing A designates the base, or body, of the tie, which, by'preference, is of rectangular oblong shape, and comprises surfaces 1 and 2 of relatively great area, at each of its ends, and intermediate surfaces 3 and 4 of lesserareas, which surfaces are separated by a hollow rib 5 up standing from the base and by preference extending lengthwise of the tie; At each end of the body A is a flange, or tie-end, 6 which stands vertically, and at each sideof the body is'a fiange,or wall, 7 which is bent to stand vertically. 1

Disposed over each surface 1 and 2 is a rail chair 8, whose side margins abut against the walls 7 and which are provided with intermediate piers, or walls 9, extending to the surfaces 1 and 2.

Thechairs 8 are provided with means for the securement of rails, such as 10, shown in Fig. 1, and by preference such rail securing means are permanent, integral, features, and by still further preference consist of spurs, or lugs, 11, arranged in pairs, the lugs of each pair being spaced a distance substantially that of the width of the base of a standard running rail. and the pairs of lugs being spaced a distance substantially that of the standard rail-gage. The lugsll are shown as being formed integral with the chairs as by beingcut and struck up to stand, normally, substantially at a right angle to the chair. To provide for the employment of securing means other than the lugs 11 I provide each chair with a pair of perforations 12 whereby devices (not shown) extraneous to the tie may be substituted for the lugs 11 for the securement of the rail. 7

In providing a tie with the fixed rail securingmeans both the establishing of the ties and the laying of the rails is facilitated in that the gage is established and the ties automatically positioned with respect to the gaged rails.

In Fig. 2 I show a blank employed in making a tie having the characteristics just recited, in which the various parts are numbered as in the remaining figures; It will be noted that the margins 01 the parts 7 of the blank are substantially straight, While in the formed tie as shown in Fig. 1 the said margins are curved between the chair forming elements. This change of contour is brought about by the forming of the hollow rib 5.

The elements 9, 9 forming the middle pier, or wall for the chair are by preference united, as by welding, and their united ends 'ioined to the base, or surfaces 1 and 2 as by welding.

It is to be particularly noted that the walls, or flanges 7 torn'iing the sides of the tie, n 3:? the flanges (3, forming the ends of ie are brougl'it to the plane of the base,

' aces 1 and 2 and that the chair conlien is open whereby to provide drainfor the entire tie.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by lietters Patent therefor is l. A tie formed from a single piece of sheet metal con'iprising a base having plane surfaces of relatively great area at each end, flanges forming tie-sides and tie-ends, chairs abutting against the flanges forming the tie-sides, piers or said chairs and integral rail securingmeans on said chairs.

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2. A tie formed from a single piece of Ining same above said base, said tie-sides ha\' ing portions near the ends of the tie occupying planes substantially that of the rail base to afford drainage.

An all metal tie comprising a base ha"- ing plane surfaces of relatively great area at each end, flanges forming tie sides, chairs formedintegral with the tie sides and spanning same above the base and a pier formed integral with the chair between the tie sides nd extending to said plane surfaces of the base.

An all metal tie comprising a base, having substantially plane surfaces of relatively great areas at each of its ends, integral flanges forming tie sides, port-ions of which occupy the plane of the base to afforddrainage, chairs formed integral With the tie sides and spanning same above the base, a pier formed integral with each chair between the tie sides and extended to and JOHN J. HOGAN.

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