US1740359A

US1740359A - Rail clamp and brace

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Publication number: US1740359A
Application number: US235077A
Authority: US
Inventors: Leak William
Original assignee: JAMES M ENDSLEY; JOHN E ZINN; WILLIAM V HATTEN
Current assignee: JAMES M ENDSLEY; JOHN E ZINN; WILLIAM V HATTEN
Priority date: 1927-11-22
Filing date: 1927-11-22
Publication date: 1929-12-17
Anticipated expiration: 1946-12-17

Description

Dec. 17, 1929.

W. LEAK RAIL CLAMP AND BRAGE Filed Nov. 22. 1927 MP m {49 m I i V 911% w J i...

Fatented Dec. 17, 1929 OFFICE WILLIAM LEAK, F CARTHAGE, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR 0F ONE-FOURTH TO WILLIAM V. HATTEN, ONE-EIGHTH T0 JAMES M. ZENDSLEY, AND ONE-EIGHTH TO JOHN E.

ZINN, ALL OF GARTHAGE, MISSOURI CL BRAGE Application filed November 22, 1827. Serial No. 235,0?7.

This invention relates to improvements in rail joints and has for an object the provision of means for connecting the meeting ends of adjacent 'rail sections to hold said ends against vertical movement and thus eliminate rail connecting bars and rail ends, and consequent pounding of said ends.

For this purpose the invention utilizes clamps which engage the outer faces of the connecting bars of the joints and the under faces of the rail sections in a manner to securely hold the bars in contact with the walls of the fishing spaces of the rails.

With the above and other objects in view,

the invention further includes the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing Figure 1 is a side elevation of a rail joint equipped with the present invention Figure 2 is a top plan View of the same.

\ Figure 3 is a section on .the line 33 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is a view similar to Figure 3 showing a slightly modified form of the invention.

Referring to the drawings in detail wherein like characters of reference denote corresponding parts, the reference character R indicates the meeting ends of adjacent rail sections which are connected by bars 10. These bars engage the walls of the fishing spaces upon opposite sides of the rail web 11. They further engage the under faces 12 of the .heads of the rail, as is usual in the construction of rail joints. I

Located centrally upon opposite sides of the meeting ends of the rail sections are clamps which contact with the outer faces of the bars 10. These clamps include plates 13 and base portions 14:, the latter being connectat ed to the frame by means of inclined portions through the base portions transversely beneath the rails andact in addition to the usual bolts 19 to securely hold the clamps in position and force the connecting bars 10 against the walls of the fishing spaces. The upper edges of the bars 10 are provided with ribs 20 whose outer faces are inclined and the upper edges of the plates 13 are similarly inclined and bear against these ribs. The up per edges offthe bars 10 are thus more securely forced against the under faces of the rail heads.

In Figure 4 of the drawings, the invention is applied to a rail section equipped with angle bars 21. The clamps are arranged in I the manner shown and described in connection with Figures 1, 2 and 3, except that the connecting portions 15 engage the angle bars 21 instead of the rail flange. In this form of the invention, the ribs F0 are omitted.

As show in Figures 1 and 2 of the drawings, the clamps occupy approximately onethird of the length of the connecting bars 10 or the angle bars 21 and are located centrally of the length of these bars directly across the meeting ends of the rail sections. The ends of the rail sections are thus reinforced and supported at the point of greatest strain occasioned by the passage of wheels across the joint. The rail ends are thus held against vertical movement and wear upon the con nectin bars and consequent pounding and loosening of the joint is thus prevented.

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 claim. W

Having described the invention what is claimed is In combination with the meeting ends of adjacent rail sections, bars located within the 5 fishing spaces upon the opposite sides of the rails across said meeting ends, and connecting said ends, clamping plates secured upon opposite sides of the rails in contact with the outer side faces of the bars and extending 10 downwardly and inwardly beneath the base of the rail, bolts extending through the web of the rail and the bars and clamping plates, and bolts extending through the downwardly and inwardly extending portions beneath the 15 rail and connecting the clamping plates.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WHJLIAM LEAK.