US1715434A - Rail brace - Google Patents

Description

Patented June 4, 1929.

' 1 1 *i,na43i JOHN SUTINEN; OF TWO EARBORS, MINNESOTA.

RAIL Barron.

Application filed November 30,1928. SeriaLNo. 322,877.

This invention relates to railroad rail bracing devices and has special reference to such devices particularly adapted for use upon metal rallr'oad ties such for example as 11- lustrated in my Patent 1,697,935, granted January 8, 1929, though adaptable to other forms of metal as well as wooden ties, if

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The principal object of the invention is to'provide a bracing member susceptible of adjustment at any time for tightening or loosening the same. p 1

Other objects and advantages of the invention will appear in the following descriptionthereof. 1 I

Referring now to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this application, and wherein like reference characters indicate like parts: i 1 a Figure 1 is a cross section of a metal tie having a bearing surface for the railroad rail and to which the braceis shown" as applied in Figures 2 and 3.

Figure 2 is a fragmental portion ofone end of the tie with the rail shown in cross section and the bracein elevation. I

Figure 3 is a plan view of Figure 2, a portion of which is shown in section;

Figure 4: is a plan view of the wishbone V I bulge therein as more clearly shown an 7, and common lnthe art of mebrace; a V

' Figure 5 is an elevation of the adjusting bolt for application to the brace;

Figure 6 is a perspectwe vlew of the fragmental end portion of the modifiedform of tie shown in my copending. application; and

v Figure 7 is a perspective view of a modified form of brace; v I v y 1 represents a somewhat novel form of tie tov which the invention is applied, the

rail being mounted directly overthe angularly shaped housing 2, (one of which is provided adjacent each end of the tie), about the wooden block 3 for proper holding of the rail spikes 4:. g

Through the rail engaging flange 5 of the tie and spaced intermediate of the end of the tie and-the rail is formed a through hole indicated at 6 to provide convenient means for fastening the brace. This latter' is illustrated at 7 and is of wishbone shape, constructed of suitable yieldable round material, the apex of the brace being flattened verging outwardly therefrom. r In Figures 2 and 3 I have shown an up- I chanics.

indicated at 8, and the legs normally di standing staple 9 as a means for securing theapex of the brace to the upper surface or provided with a transverse portion -as, 7

of the tie, audit is apparent that this staple,

may be replaced by an eyebolt, an upset clip from the flange of the tie, or if the apex of the brace is bent downwardlyas 'shownat '15 in Figure 7, it may simply extend within a hole 6 and function in all respects in like.

manner to that shown in Figures 2' and 3 ofthe drawings. a w I 1 a The legs of the brace are adjustably united as by'the transverse bolt 10, it being hook shaped as at 111 at one end and being screw threaded upon the other end and provided with a suitable nut 12 and hook washer 13.

The hooked end of this bolt is designed to overlap one leg of the brace, while the hook washer engages theother leg, and by means of the nutflQ adjustment of the brace .accomplished by the bolt. Non-slipping connection of'the hooked end of the adjusting bolt to one leg of the brace is provided by a bump or lump 14 being formed upon the v outer wall of one leg, either by sharply arching sameiorthe pinching outwardly of a Flgure In Figure 6 is inclined notch '18 isformed, intowhichthe flattened apex of the brace maybe dropped for satisfactory anchorage. The bent apex 15- as shown in Figure 7 of the drawings may be sharpened so as to be driven into r1." A rail brace comprising a member bent the upper surface of a wooden tie and there j upon itself forming spaced diverging termini, means for anchoring the apex of the member, and means for adjusting the free ends of the member to and from'each other for the purpose described.

2.'The"comb1nat1on Wltlla tie of the class.

described, ofa rail brace comprising'afsub stan'tially V-shaped member, means for anchoring the apex of said member to the tie, and means for adjustingthe freeends of the member to and from each other.

3. A brace of the class described 'ompris ing av member bent upon itself forming spaced diverging termini, means for 'piv otally anchoring the apex of the member, and means for adjustably moving the free ends of said member to and from each other 10v for the purpose described; I

In testimony whereof my signature.

JOHN SUTINEN.

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