US2435352A

US2435352A - Rail anchor

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Publication number: US2435352A
Application number: US620687A
Authority: US
Inventors: John P Heuer
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1945-10-06
Filing date: 1945-10-06
Publication date: 1948-02-03
Anticipated expiration: 1965-02-03

Description

Feb. 3, 1948. HEUER 2,435,352

RAIL ANCHOR Filed Oct. 6, 1945 5-3 TJE-Z 2 3 z II 9 3 r 8 1/////////// m 10' n 4 s 6 INVENTOR JOHN P. HUER BY Aw ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 3, 1948 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE RAIL ANCHOR John P. Heuer, Pittsburgh, Pa.

Application October 6, 1945, Serial No. 620,687

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to a rail holder for a railroad rail, and important objects and advantages thereof are to provide a device of the character described, which will secure the rail against longitudinal movement on the ties, which will increase its holding action as forces tending such longitudinal creeping movement increase, which may be readily installed to or removed from a rail, which comprises on7y two parts, which is simple in its construction and arrangement, durable and eflicient in its use, compact, and comparatively economical to manufacture and install.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts herein specifically described and illustrated in the accompanying drawing, but it is to be understood that changes in the form, proportions and details of construction may be resorted to that come within the scope of the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawing wherein like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views:

Figure 1 is a top plan view of a rail holder assembled in place on a rail. Figure 2 is a side elevational view thereof. Figure 3 is a sectional view on line 3-3, Figure 1. Figure 4 is a top plan view of the clamping members in the assembled positions. Figure 5 is a perspective view of one of the clamping members, and Figure 6 is a bottom plan view of a modified form of clamping member, embodying the present invention.

Referring in detail to the drawing I denotes the entire railroad rail, which is of the conventional construction and comprises the head 2, the web 3, and the base 4. The rail is secured to the tie 5 and tie plate 6, by means of spikes I, in the usual manner well known in the art to which the invention appertains.

The improved rail holder comprises a pair of identical clamping members, respectively indicated at 8 and 9. Each of the clamping members consists of an oblong, flat, rectangularlyshaped supporting plate ID, the outer side edge margin of which is formed to provide an upwardly disposed, hook-shaped clamping jaw II extending along the entire length thereof. A securing flange I2 of similar length is formed integral with the inner side edge of each of the clamping members, and depends at an angle of approximately forty-five degrees with respect to the horizontal disposition of the supporting plate.

Each of the

clamping members

8 and 9 is provided with an elongated, longitudinally extending connecting slot I3, which is disposed at the juncture of the supporting plate I0 with the associated securing flange I2. The slot is of a length approximating one-half the length of the clamping member and has an open end. The inner side wall I4 of the slot, disposed toward the securing flange, extends at a slight angle re atively to the straight outer side wall I5 of the slot, whereby said slot gradually decreases in width from its open end towards its closed end, as clearly illustrated in Figure 5.

In assembling the improved rail holder on the rail I, the pair of

clamping members

8 and 9 are arranged in opposed relation to each other beneath the rail base 4, whereby the open end of the slot I3 in the clamping member 8 will be opposed and adjacent to the open end of the siot in the other clamping member 9. The clamping jaw II of the clamping member 8 is positioned to engage and overlap one side edge margin of the rail base 4, and the clamping jaw of the clamping member 9 is placed to engage and overlap the other side edge margin of the rail base, as clearly shown in Figure 1.

The clamping member 8 is positioned in ad- Vance of the clamping member 9, and the forward end of the former abuts against the tie plate 6. The clamping member 9 is advanced in the forward direction until the slot I3 thereof engages the clamping member 8 along the line of juncture of the supporting plate It] with the associated flange I2. Converseiy, but in like manner, the slot I3 in the clamping member 8 will engage the clamping member 9, as clearly shown in Figure 4.

Such inter-locking engagement of the

clamping members

8 and 9 is effected by forcibly driving the clamping member 9 into its engagement with the advanced clamping member 8. Due to the angular disposition of the slot walls I4, the forcible inter-locking engagement of the clamping members, as stated, will draw the latter toward each other in the transverse direction, whereby the clamping jaws I I will be securely clamped against the respective side edges of the rail base 4.-

As shown in Figure 6, the connecting slot I3 may be provided with a toothed angular wall I6, and the under surface of the juncture of the plate I5] and flange I2 may be roughened, as indicated at I]. By such construction the interlocking engagement of the clamping members may obviously be greatly increased.

The improved rail holder is assembled on the rail I to dispose the forward abutting end of the 3 clamping member 8 in the direction of the rail trafiic. It will be apparent that the force of trafiic travel, tending to shift the rail I longitudinally, will be imparted to the clamping members to force the latter into further inter-locking 5 engagement, thereby increasing the gripping or clamping action of the jaws II on the rail base 4 to securely hold the rail against longitudinal creeping movement on the ties. Any necessa y number of railholders may beiinstalledion each 10 length ofiail; and said holders b installed;

-in positions" to function on rails employed for trafiic in one or both directions.

What I claim is:

The combination with a railroad track rail,

of a pair of similar clamping membersarran gd; in opposed relation to each other, each of said members comprising a flat 'oblongil'iorizontallyidisposed supporting plate positioned under the base of the rail, each of said plates carryin a 20 plate with said flange, said slot having an angularly disposed wall at the flange side thereof decreasing the width of said siot from the outer end toward the inner end thereof, said angularly disposed wall being provided with teeth, said juncture having the underside thereof roughened opposite the slotted end thereof, said juncture of one of said pair of members being engageable in the slot of the other of said pair of members to cause theitoqthed 133111101 :the; s-lotof,- one of aidi ir q 'membe tm h a eaandiar nit d roughened juncture of the other of said pair of members for securely interlocking said pair of members together on the base of the rail.

JOHN P. HEUER.

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