US2188818A

US2188818A - Track-aligning device

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Publication number: US2188818A
Application number: US243664A
Authority: US
Inventors: Rich David
Original assignee: AUGUST J LEMKE; CLARENCE E FALK; EDWARD H GREWE; GARNETT R MCKEEVER
Current assignee: AUGUST J LEMKE; CLARENCE E FALK; EDWARD H GREWE; GARNETT R MCKEEVER
Priority date: 1938-12-02
Filing date: 1938-12-02
Publication date: 1940-01-30
Anticipated expiration: 1957-01-30

Description

Jan. 30, 1940.

TRACK-ALIGNING DEVICE Filed Dec. 2, 1938 INVENTOR W aw/1d Bio a 7 lqr v Patented Jan. 30, 1940 PATENT OFFICE 2,188,818 TRAOK-ALIGNING DEVICE David Rich, Spooner, Wis., assignor of fifteen per cent to August J. Lemke, Garnett R. McKeever, and ten ten per' cent to per cent to Clarence E. Falk, all'of Spooner, Wis., and ten per cent to Edward H. Grewe, Eau Claire, Wis.

Application December 2, 1938, Serial No. 243,664

' 1 Claim. (01. 254-44) This invention relates to new and useful improvements in devices for properly aligning the rails of a railway track.

At times, a railway track will work out of 5 proper alignment as a result of traific thereover, freezing of the ground, et cetera, and when this condition develops it is necessary for the track,

including rails and ties, to be moved laterally until proper alignment has been'restored. The present invention has for its principal object to provide means whereby a worker may quickly and successfully restore the' track to proper alignment without the assistance of others.

A further object is to provide a device comprising a shoe member having an end adapted to engage securely the ballast between the ties and an end adapted to rest upon a rail of the track to be moved into alignment, said device also including lever-operated mechanism having means for engaging the rail whereby said rail and the track of which it is a portion will be moved when the lever-operated mechanism is manipulated.

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Other objects and'advantages willbe apparent from the following description when taken in connection with the. accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe shoe member,

H are upwardly inclinedspaced ratchet bars l3 having teeth M on their upper faces.

The lever member includes a rock lever l5 having its lower end bifurcated as at l6 and having its upper end of hollow construction to provide a socket for an operating bar l1. Pivotally mounted within the bifurcation l6 and depending therefrom is a pawl 18 and pivotally mounted Figure 2 is a perspective view of the leverwithin the outer end of the bifurcation is one end of a rail-engaging arm l9. It will be noted that the pawl I8 is provided with downwardly extending lugs-at each side whereby to engage the outer sides of the ratchet bars 13 and thereby prevent lateral displacement of the pawl. This arm I9 is provided with a hook 20 adjacent its pivotal end, and an angularly extending portion 2| at its outer or free end, said hook being adapted to receive one side of a rail head therein, while the portion 2| rests on the other side of the rail head.

When the device is to be put to use the shoe member In is first placed in position between the ties with the plate ll embedded in the ballast 22 in such a manner that the flange 12 will rest on the surface of the ballast, the free ends of the ratchet bars l3 being positioned so: as to rest upon the head of the rail 23 to be aligned. The lever member is then applied to the shoe member by placing the rock lever l5 between the ratchet bars [3 so that the arm ill with its hook 2E! and portion 2| will engage the rail head in the manner illustrated in Figure 3, wherein one of the ratchet bars I3 is broken away, and so that the pawl l8 will engage certain of the teeth It. A suitable bar I! is then placed in the socket of the rock lever 15 by means of which said;

lever may be rocked to force the hook 211 against the rail head and thus move the track into proper alignment.

What is claimed, is: A railroad track-aligning device comprising a shoe member including a base plate adapted to penetrate thetrack ballast and having. front and rear faces, spaced ratchet bars connected toand extending forwardly from the front face of the base plate, a flange extending rearwardly from the upper edge of the rear face of the base plate and adapted to engage the surface of the track ballast, a bifurcated rock lever positioned be tween the ratchet bars, a work-engaging member pivotally mounted in the outer end of the bifurcation, and a pawl pivotally mounted" within the bifurcation inwardly of the work-engaging memberand adapted to engage the ratchet bars whereby to provide a fulcrum for the rock lever.

DAVID RICH.