US333539A - Combined tie and rail holder and spike-puller - Google Patents

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W. PALMER. COMBINED TIE AND RAIL HOLDER AND SPIKE FULLER. v v No. 333,539 Patented Jan. 5-, 1886.

llll UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

WILLIAM PALMER, OF JACKSONVILLE, OHIO.

COMBINED TIE AND RAIL HOLDER AND SPlKE-PULLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,539, dated January 5, 1886.

Application filed August 21, 1885.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM PALMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at J acksonville, in the county of Athens and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combined Tie-Lifter and Spike-Puller, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

Myinvention has relation to a compound implement for holding the rails of a railwaytrack securely and firmlyon the cross-tie for driving a spike,-and to a spike-puller; and the novelty consists in the construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter fully set forth and claimed.

The object of my invention is to provide a tie and rail holder and spike-puller in one implement, and which shall be simple, strong, and durable in construction, cheap of manufacture, and effective and easy of operation.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved rail-holding and spike-pulling implement. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view thereof; and Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views of opposite ends of the handle-bar enlarged,to more fully sh ow the peculiar construction of the various parts. Fig. 5 is a view of the device in position for use as a tie-holder.

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures of the drawings, referring to which- A designates the improved implement for holding the rail and pulling spikes of a railway-track, to which the implement is especially adapted for use.

B designates the handle bar, preferably round in cross-section and provided at opposite ends with the spike-puller and rail-holding device 0 D, respectively, the peculiar construction of which I will now proceed to describe more fully.

The spike-puller 0 comprises two arms, 0 0, formed integral with the handlebar at one end thereof and bent at an angle thereto, as shown, the arms being preferably rectangular in form and separated from each other by an intervening space or slot, 0. The adjacent inner faces of the arms are recessed, cut away, or hollowed out, as at c, to permit the inner surfaces of the arms to snugly fit the head of the spike when the device is inserted thereunder.

Serial No. 175,009. (No model.)

The operation is obvious. The bent arms are laid flat upon the tie or parallel therewith, which will bring the handle-bar B at an angle thereto when the arms are forced forward or pushed under the spike-head and pressure on the outer end of the handlebar is exerted to elevate the spike and arms 0, the recessed portions of which closely engage the spikehead. The fulcrum for the bar and arms 0 is at the junction or angle where the said arms and bar meet or diverge.

The tie-elevator D is arranged or formed at the opposite end of the handle-bar B,and comprises two prongs, D, whichare formed integral with said handle-bar. The end of the handle-bar at which are arranged the prongs D is bifurcated or split for a portion of its length, to provide the arms or prongs D, which are thus formed integral therewith, and at their inner ends they are bent at nearly right angles to the handle-bar and gradually diverge outward from each other toward their outer ends, where they are each provided with a bent portion, E, which are tapered from the point of juncture with the arms D to the outer ends thereof, as shown, and arranged in the plane of the handle-bar;

I attach importance to the peculiar construction and arrangement of the arms 0' of the spike-extracting device, and to the arrangement of the prongs D D, and to forming said parts integral with the handle-bar B, as I thereby provide an implement which combines great strength, simplicity, and durability of construction with cheapness and facility of manufacture, and which will supply a long-felt want to workmen engaged in laying railway-track.

The rail-holding device is used as follows: The upper ends of the bifurcated prongs are fitted over the rail so that the said prongs embrace or straddle the rail on opposite sides, and thus lie in a vertical position,while the arms E of said prongs are fitted under the cross-tie and lie in a horizontal position. The rail is thus firmly and securely held down upon the tie, and the spike is driven therein to hold said rail in place,as is usual. The attendant exerts pressure on the free end of the handle-bar, to hold the parts in positi0n,either by the hands or sitting thereon, and after the spike has been driven the implement is re- IOU moved and used again for a similar purpose, or for extracting a spike, the opposite end of the implement being brought into play for accomplishing the latter object.

It will be observed that the implement is reversible, end for end,for its different uses, and that it can be effectively and quickly used.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A compound implement for holdingrails and extracting spikes, consisting of a handlebar having at one end two recessed arms arranged at an angle to said bar and provided at its opposite end with prongs having bent arms, as set forth.

2. A compound implement for holding rails and extracting spikes, comprising a handle.- bar having two bent prongs at one end diverging laterally from each other and having a bent arm, and at its opposite end with parallel bent arms having recessed faces, as set forth.

3. A compound implement for holding rails and extracting spikes, comprisinga handle-bar having two bent laterally-diverging prongs, D, at one end, and each prong provided with a bent arm, E, and at its opposite end with bent parallel arms 0, separated by an intermediate slot,and having recesses 0 formed on the vertical inner faces thereof, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

W'ILLIAM PALMER.

WVitnesses:

CHARLES "WILLIAMs, ADDIE KEMPToN.

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