US313260A

US313260A - Railroad-tie

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Publication number: US313260A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1885-03-03
Anticipated expiration: 1902-03-03

Description

'(NoMddeL) L. 0. VANDERBILT & M. HOAMP-ANY. RAILROAD TIE.

No. 313,260. Patented M116, 1885.

WITNESSES: V S INVENTOR: 9Z3; WVJ O60 ATTORNEYS.

"Unwrap STATES PATENT fission.

LEE 0. VANDERBILT'AND MILTON E. CAMPANY, OF MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN.

RAI LROAD-TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 313,260, dated March 3, 1885.

Applicat'on filed March 5, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, LEE 0. VANDERBILT and lVIILTON E. CAMPANY, both of Muskcgon, in the county ofMuskegon and State ofMichigan, have invented a new and Improved Railroad-Tie, of which the following is a full,

clear, and exact description.

The object of our invention is to furnish railroad'tie which shall be practically indestructible by wear or the action of the elements.

The invention consists in certain improvements in that class of railway-ties that have two hollow inverted bowls serving the double purpose of a chair for the rail and as a railsupport, and abar connecting two such bowls to form a complete tie, as will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically set forth in the claim. Heretofore these hollow plates have been provided with clips for supporting the rail, and with a bar or tie that extended from one to the other and passed through apertures in said hollow plates. These bars were perforated at opposite sides of the hollow plates to receive locking-pins. Another construction employed, corrugated hollow plates and a cross-bar or tie provided with curved-up ends and slots just behind the curved ends. A clip having curved ends was made to embrace the edge of the rail with one .end and to pass through the slot in the crosstie with its other end. A wedge driven between the ]ast-rnentioued end of the clip and y the curved end of the cross-tie caused the rail to be clamped between'said clip and cross-tie.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view, and Fig. 2 is a 1ongitudinal section, of our improved railroadtie.

Two inverted bowls, A, having plain upper surfaces and sides formed on a reverse curve, are provided with fastening-clips B,which are nearly semicircular in form and are bent on their inner edges to adapt them tov receive the flange of the rail 0. The clips B are secured to the plain top ofthe bowls A by means of bolts D.

A bar, E, extending from one bowl A to the other, is apertured at its ends to receive the inner bolts, D, employed in fastening the inner clips, B, to the bowls A. The bar E prevents the two opposite bowls A from being separated or being drawn together and thus preserves the gage of the track.

A series of ties of the forms described are placed under the rails at suitable distances apart. The concave side of the bowl is filled with earth well'tamped, or with concrete or other suitable material.

The bowls A and clips B are preferably made of cast-iron and the bar E of wrought iron; but any other suitable material may be employed in their manufacture.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is I As an improved article of manufacture, a railroad-tie formed of two inverted bowls having plain upper surfaces, two fasteningclips secured to the plain surface of each bowl by bolts, and a bar connecting the two bowls and secured by the fastening-bolts of the in 7 nor clips, as described.

' LEE 0. VANDERBILT.

MILTON n. OAMPANY.

\Vitnesses:

DAVID D. Enwrx, DAR LUTHER.