US1587471A - Tie - Google Patents

Description

June 1 1926.

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Patented June 1, 1926.

uurreo stares JOSEPH A. GABLES, OF ALBUQUERQUE, NEVI MEXICO.

TIE.

Application filed June 22, 1925, Serial No. 38,915. Renewed April 16, 1926;

This invention relates to improvements in railroad ties and contemplates the provision of a tie which owing to the ingredients contained therein will prevent the same from deteriorating when the same is embedded in the ground or ballasted and further owing to the ingredients of the composition renders the tie equally as resilient as the ordinary wooden tie now in use.

A further object of the present invention is the provision of means molded in the tie and supporting a rail thereon whereby the same has a fixed and rigidly mounted base portion. I

A further object of the present invention is the provision of means in the form of brace plates which are removably secured to the supporting means whereby the rails of the track may be easily and readily placed on the supporting means and ready for engagement with the fish plates.

lVith the above and other objects and advantages in view, the invention further in cludes the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the railroad tie showing the supporting means and a pair of rails supported and secured thereto. p v

Figure 2 is a top plan view of one end of the tie and showing the direct engagement of the supporting means and brace plates.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary longitudinal section of the tie, and showing the anchoring means for the supporting means.

Figure 4- is a vertical section taken on line 14 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a longitudinal section of a portion of the supporting means showing the fish plate secured thereto.

Figure 6 is a detail perspective of the supporting means per se.

F igure 7 is a perspective of one of the fish plates.

Figure 8 is a detail perspective of one of the supporting means.

Referring to the drawings in detail, wherein like characters ofreference denote corresponding parts, the reference character 10 indicates a railroad tie which is used in supporting the rail supporting and engaging means, and which is composed of a composition which may contain the following ingredients, namely, one part of asphalt, two parts cement and three par-ts sawdust or the same may be composed of one part asphalt, two parts cement or three parts of sand and gravel mixed equally, the purposes and advantages of the composition of this kind will be hereinafter apparent.

The supporting means aforementioned includes a relatively flat narrow plate '11 and which is adapted to receive adjacent the outer end portions thereof supporting memers 12 which are bent upon themselves and have their bent portions terminating in a pair of spaced legs 13 and 14: which are adapted to be received over the plate 11 and secured thereto through the medium of suitable fastening elements which may be in the form of rivets 15. These supporting members 12 have their upper portions inclined as at 16, to snugly receive thereon one side of a head of a rail 17. Extending transversely from opposite sides of the supporting member 12 are a pair of flange members 18 which extend inwardly within a cut out portion 19 in the member 12in order that the bottom or foot of the rail may be supported thereon and receive one side of the foot of the rail as clearly illustrated in Figure 3 of the drawings. Secured to the upper sides of the flange members 18 is a supporting plate 20 which is secured to the flange members 18 as at 21. The inwardly extending ends of supporting plates20 have upwardly extending transversely disposed flange members 22. Nuts 23 being secured to the lower sides of the supporting plate 20 adjacent the flange 22 and in direct alinement with registering openings 24 extending through the supporting plate 20.

In order to secure the rail 17and hold the same against the inclined portion 16 and within the cutout portion 19 ofthesupporting member 12 there is provided an angularly shaped brace plate which has a vertically extending portion 25 lying lush with the intermediate or reduced portion of the rail 17 and having its opposite end portion restingagainst the inclined foot of the rail and having its 'outer end portioiiot'fset as at 26 which engages the flanged portion-'22 of the supporting plate 20. A pair" of securing and adjusting means in the form of bolts '27 are received within openings 28 provided.

in the brace plate and threadedly "received within the nuts 23 upon the lower faces of the supporting plate 20.

From the foregoing description and accompanying drawings, it is clearly apparent that a rail 17 is securely held in position against accidental displacement on the securing means.

In the'construction of the device the plate 11 and supporting member 12 are positioned within a mold in a vertical position and the composition forming the lie 10 is then poured around the same in order that the supporting means for the rail 17 is molded therein and becomes a part thereof. It is to be noted that when the supporting member 12 is positioned upon the plate 11 that the rail 17 may be placed in position on the supporting plate 20 and that owing to the cut out portion provided for the foot of the rail and the inclined portion 16, adapted to engage the beveled underside of the head of the rail that the same will be prevented from outward movement or strain and that owing to the novel and efficient fastening means and cooperation of the fish plate and supporting plate 20 owing to the direct engagement of the flanged portions 26 and 22 in combination with the adjusting or holding bolt 27 which is threadedly received within a nut 23 on the bottom face of the supporting plate that the rail 17 will be held against lateral move ment and against accidental displacen'ient.

The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor details of construction, and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as properly fall within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what is claimed is 1. A composition tie of the character described comprising a relatively flat narrow plate extending from end to end within the tie and having its upper side edges extending vertically therein, rail supporting means secured to said plate, and means included upon the opposite side of the supportinlg means and engaging a rail for the purpose set forth.

2. A resilient composition tie having a relatively flat narrow plate positioned within the lie from end to end and having its side edges extending vertically therein, rail supporting means secured to the plate, and removably secured adjusting means secured to the opposite side of the rail supporting means and engaging the opposite side of the rail for the purpose set forth.

3. A resilient composition tie of the character described comprising a relatively flat narrow plate positioned from end to end within the tie and having its upper side edge lying flush with the upper face. there of and extending vertically therein, a rail,

supporting member havin g head and foot engaging portions upon one side thereof, and removably secured means positioned upon the opposite side of the rail supporting member and engaging the opposite side of the rail,

4. A resilient composition lie of the character described comprising a relatively flat narrow plate positioned vertically within the tie and having its upper side edge lying flush with the upper face of the tie, a rail supporting member bent upon itself and having its legs secured to the opposite side of the plate, a pair of transversely extending flange members protruding from opposite sides of the bent portion of the rail supporting member, an auxiliary rail sup porting member positioned upon. the transversely extending flanges and supporting a rail thereon, and angularly disposed removably secured means secured to the opposite end of the auxiliary rail supporting member and engaging the opposite side of the rail.

A resilient composition tie of the character described comprising a relatively nar row flat plate positioned within the tie and extending from end to end, and having its upper side edge lying flush with the upper face of the tie, rail supporting members bent upon themselves and secured adjacent the opposite end portions of the plate, each of said rail supporting members having a pair of transversely extending flange members which lie flush with the upper side edge of the plate, an auxiliary rail supporting plate positioned upon the upper face of the transversely extending flange members, and a brace plate removably scoured to the auxiliary rail supporting plate and engaging the opposite side of the rail.

6. A resilient composition railroad tie having a relatively fiat narrow plate arranged from end to end therein and having its side edge extending vertically therein and lying flush with the upper face of the tie, rail supporting members bent upon themselves and having their-opposite sides secured to the plate adjacent the outer ends thereof, a pair of transversely extending flanges extending from opposite sides of each of the rail supporting members and extending flush with the upper side edge of the plate, an auxiliary rail sup-porting plate secured to each pair of the flanges and having an offset portion upon the inner end port ion thereof, and a brace plate of angular formal-- tion engaging the opposite side of a rail and having the lower offset portion engaging the offset portion of the auxiliary rail sup porting plate and means removably securing the brace plate and auxiliary rail supporting plate respectively.

In testimony whereof I. new signature.

JOSEPH A, GAPLESE

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