US2547586A - Model railway track - Google Patents

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April 1951 A. G. LORE 2,547,586

MODEL RAILWAY TRACK Filed Dec. 1'7, 1947 Fig.6

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Patented Apr. 3, 1951 MODEL RAILWAY TRACK Matthew Ambrose Graham Lor, Blackpool, England Application December 17, 1947, Serial No.

In Great Britain December 21, 1946 1 Claim. (01. 238-) This invention relates to improvements in model railway tracks composed of rubber or other resilient material.

The object of the invention is to mould or ex tend the section forming the lines, sleepers and ballast in one piece at one operation from rubher or other resilient material.

According to the invention sections of track are moulded or extended from rubber or other resilient material and comprise a base, simulating the ballast, concave upwards on its under side and formed with two parallel or concentric raised portions on its upper surface to form the lines with transverse stiffening members simulating sleepers the ends of each section being provided with a dovetail recess between the lines to receive keys by which adjacent sections are connected together.

The invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings:

Fig. 1 is a plan of a curved section;

Fig. 2 is a transverse section on line 22, Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a transverse section of a straight section on line 3-3, Fig.5, enlarged;

Fig. 4 is a plan of a key;

Fig. 5 is a plan to a smaller scale showing part of a complete railway circuit with a curved and straight section coupled together and with an intermediate section keyed therebetween;

Fig. 6 is a longitudinal section of intermediate section on line 6-6, Fig. 5.

A complete railway circuit is composed of a plurality of curved sections and straight sections B connected together with intermediate section C between a curved and straight section. The various sections being jointed by keys D interlocking into both adjacent sections.

Each curved section A is constructed with a base It] simulating the ballast of a normal railway track, the upper surface of which is moulded with two concentric raised ribs II to form the lines and with transverse stiffening strips l2 simulating sleepers. The upper surface is inclined to the horizontal as shown in Fig. 2 to provide banking for the track on the curve. The lower surface of the base is formed with a concave recess I 3 between the lines to give additional resilience and the ends are formed with dovetail recesses Hi to receive the keys D by which adjacent sections are connected together.

Straight sections B are constructed similarly to the curved sections A but without any banking of the lines II. The curved sections A are connected to straight sections B by intermediate sections C (each of which is raised at one end (Fig. 5) to bring the lines I I into line with those straight sections B.

I claim:

In a model railway track built up from a plurality of track sections connected together in a series, the combination of a system of straight and curved solid track sections of molded plastic in which each section comprises a base simulating road ballast; two parallel raised rail portion upon said curved track section and the other ends of the rail portions on said intermediate rail section terminating at a lower common level to register with the ends of therail portion on said straight rail sections, and all of the rail sections having corresponding dovetail recesses vertically open upon the ends thereof intermediate the rail portions thereon, there being ClOllDle dovetail Keys adapted for insermon into each pair of corresponamg dovetail recesses 1n the ends of said rail section for connecting the latter together.

MATTHEW AMBROSE GRAHAM LORE.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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