US1579924A

US1579924A - Rail joint

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Publication number: US1579924A
Application number: US44268A
Authority: US
Inventors: Godula George
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1925-07-17
Filing date: 1925-07-17
Publication date: 1926-04-06
Anticipated expiration: 1943-04-06

Description

April 6 1926.

RAIL JOINT Filed July 17 1925 i atented Apr. 6, 1926.

UNITED STATES,

GEORGE GODULA, or WYOMING, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL JOINT.

Applicationfiled July 17, 1925. Serial No. 44,268.

T0 all'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Gnonsn GODULA, a citizen of Poland, and resident of \Vyoming, in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Raildoints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in rail-joints and it is the principal object of the invention to provide a rail joint, which positively and effectively prevents a creeping of the rails, and which allows a ready exchange of worn out rails.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a rail joint which is of strong and durable construction and has a linnted number of parts and doing away with many of the bolts and nuts used heretofore.

A further-object of the invention is the provision of a rail joint adapted to be applied to any of the rails now in use without material change in their construction.

These and other objects and advantages of my improved rail joint will become more fully known as the description thereof pro ceeds, and will then be specifically pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure:

Figure 1 is a sectional end elevation of my rail joint, the section being taken on line 11 of Figure 2.

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the rail joint.

Figure 3 is a top plan view thereof.

As illustrated on the drawing, a pair of

adjoining rails

10 and 11, each having a web 12 and a foot flange 13, rest with the latter upon a central shoulder 14:, formed on a base plate 15 having chair engagmg

shoulders

16 and 17 respectively of a pcculiar construction to be more fully described hereafter, formed therewith.

The rail. chair proper consists of two homogeneous oppositely disposed

parts

18 and 19, each having a web engaging inner side face 20,and an upper shoulder 21 adapted to engage under the head of the rail, and a lower bottom face 22 adapted to engage a depression formed in the base platebetween each shoulder 16 and shoulder 17 and the central rib or shoulder 14;; Between the body of the

chair arts

18, 19, and the bottom fac'es22 thereo a groove is formed extending longitudinally to the rails and adapted to receive thefoot flanges of the rails. p v

The webs of the adjoining rail ends are formed with suitable openings allowing the passage of connecting pins 23 the ends of which are embedded in suitable elliptical openings 23 of the inner faces of the web engaging faces of the

chair parts

18, 19.

\Vithin the groove extending longitudinally to the rails and adapted toreceive the foot flanges of the ra,ils,iblocks 2e are pro vided which engage suitable recesses 25 in the side edges of the rail foot flanges of two adjoining rails. I v i The outer side edges of the base plate 15. are provided with a plurality of recesses 26 allowing the passage of the spikes for securing the chair on the ties. Suitable openings 27 are provided in the upper edges of the

shoulders

16 and 17 to receive the shanks of spikes 28 for preventing "a longitudinal displacement of the chairs against the base plate during the operation of trains over the rails.

The operation of my device will be entirely clear from the above description without further explanation, the rails areplaced ment therewith so that the blocks 24 engage in the recesses of the rail foot flanges, and the pins 23 are passed through the webs of the adjoiningrails to engage the openings in the inner faces of the oppositely disposed chair parts, then when the spikes are driven through the recesses 26 of the base parts, and through the openings 27, the joint willbe formed and constitute an integral structure secure against separation of the parts and displacement under traiiic conditions. i V

It is to be understood that I have illustrated and described the preferred form of my deviceeas an example, and that such changes may be made in the general 3-1.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is: I 1. A rail joint comprising a base plate, a central rib or shoulder on said plate, adapted to bear the foot flanges of two adjoining rails, chair engaging shoulders formed near the outer ends of said base plate, a pair of rail chair parts adapted to engage said shoulders, a longitudinally extending groove in each of said chair parts, lugs in said grooves adapted to engage recesses the rail foot flange, means on one of said rail chair parts engaging the rail web adapted to pass through said Web into engagement with the other rail chair part, and means for securing said base plate to a tie and for preventing displacement of the chair parts.

2. A rail joint having a base plate With a plurality of marginal recesses allowing the passage of the spikes for fastening said plate to the rail ties, acent-ral longitudinally extending shoulder formed with said base plate, upstanding lateral shoulders formed withsai'd base-plate, a bi-pa tite rail chair engaging said shoulders and gripping with its upper ends under the heads of two adjoining rails, said chair parts having longitudinally extending lower grooves," a plue ralityo1 lugs formed in said grooves adapted to engage recesses in the rail foot flanges,

pins in one or" the Web engaging faces of the rail chair parts adapted to be passed through the rail Webs into engagement with the other part of said rail chair, and pins adapted to be passed through elliptical holes formed in the shouldered parts of the chair parts to prevent a longitudinal displacement of the parts under train operation. 3. In a rail joint of the class described,the combination of a base plate having a plurality of recesses in its outer side-edges for the passage of fastening spikes, with a bi partite rail chair adapted to engage shoulders formed with said base-plate and resting in recesses of said base plate, means for con necting said chair parts to each other on both sides of a rail Web and to the latter, means for engaging said chair parts with the rail foot flanges, and means for preventing a relative longitudinal displacement of chair parts and rails.

Signed at Wyoming in the county of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, this 3rd day of July, A. D. 1925.

GEORGE GODULA,