US3664584A - Concrete ties - Google Patents
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- E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
- E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
- E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
- E01B9/00—Fastening rails on sleepers, or the like
- E01B9/02—Fastening rails, tie-plates, or chairs directly on sleepers or foundations; Means therefor
- E01B9/28—Fastening on wooden or concrete sleepers or on masonry with clamp members
- E01B9/30—Fastening on wooden or concrete sleepers or on masonry with clamp members by resilient steel clips
- E01B9/303—Fastening on wooden or concrete sleepers or on masonry with clamp members by resilient steel clips the clip being a shaped bar
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- E01—CONSTRUCTION OF ROADS, RAILWAYS, OR BRIDGES
- E01B—PERMANENT WAY; PERMANENT-WAY TOOLS; MACHINES FOR MAKING RAILWAYS OF ALL KINDS
- E01B3/00—Transverse or longitudinal sleepers; Other means resting directly on the ballastway for supporting rails
- E01B3/28—Transverse or longitudinal sleepers; Other means resting directly on the ballastway for supporting rails made from concrete or from natural or artificial stone
- E01B3/32—Transverse or longitudinal sleepers; Other means resting directly on the ballastway for supporting rails made from concrete or from natural or artificial stone with armouring or reinforcement
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- a concrete tie is provided with protuberances on opposite sides thereof serving to anchor a pair of one-piece spring-type rail fasteners.
- Each fastener has a bight tensioned on the protuberance, and a pair of legs extend upward from the bight. The upper ends of the legs are bent to afford extensions which overlie the base of the rail, and bends therein engage the base of the rail with a spring force.
- the free ends of the fasteners end in hooks, one hook being the complement of the other so that a pair of such fasteners may be complementally jointed at the free ends and tensioned one on the other.
- the protuberances of the tie are under a great deal of compression and are reinforced by bends in a plurality of rod-like stringers embedded in the tie to extend between the protuberances.
- This invention relates to a reinforced concrete tie and a spring-like fastener to be tensioned on the tie for holding the rail to the tie with a spring force.
- the primary object of the present invention is to develop a fastener which in no way requires a physical alteration of a concrete tie incidental to anchoring a fastener to the tie, and more specifically the primary object of the present invention is to develop a rail fastener capable of being tensioned on the tie incidental to being operatively mated to a fastener of like form also tensioned on the tie, the two fasteners in their tensioned state presenting parts bearing with great spring force on the base of the rail.
- it is an object thereof to hold a rail to a concrete tie by means of two fasteners .of spring form having a pair of free ends in complemental hook engagement, statically loading the rail with a spring force produced by tensioning the fasteners on protuberances cast integral with the tie.
- FIG. 1 is an end elevation showing two fasteners, constructed in accordance with the present invention, securing a rail to a tie, and taken on line 1--1 of FIG. 2;
- FIG. 2 is a side elevation on line 2-2 of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 3 is atop plan view on the line 33 of FIG. 5;
- FIG. 4 is an elevation on line 44 of FIG. 5;
- FIG. 5 is a side elevation of a fastener constructed in accordance with the present invention.
- FIG. 6 is a top elevation on line 6-6 of FIG. 7;
- FIG. 7 is an elevation on line 77 of FIG. 6;
- FIG. 8 is an end elevation on line 8-8 of FIG. 7;
- FIGS. 9 and 10 are perspective views showing stages of assembling the fasteners to hold a rail in place.
- a railroad tie 10 of concrete supports a trafiic rail 11, the tie having a recess 10R therein in which is disposed a resilient tie pad 12 on which the base 13 of the rail sets.
- the tie pad may be of any preferred, essentially elastomeric composition, but is advantageously provided with depending or downwardly directed end lips 14 which overlap marginal portions of the outer faces of the concrete tie at the end limits of the recess 10R, whereby endwise movement of the tie pad is limited.
- the tie pad itself is provided with an upwardly opening recess 12R characterized by a pair of longitudinal side lips 16 which neatly embrace the edges of the rail base. Accordingly, the recess 10R in the tie may be of some standard dimension, and in the event that the railway is characterized by rails having bases with unusual width, it is only necessary to vary the thickness of tie pad lips 16 to neatly fit the base of the rail.
- the rail is secured to the tie by a pair of one-piece fasteners or clips 25, each of identical construction, having free ends in complemental hooked engagement with one another as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, and in accomplishing this, the fasteners are preferably of silico-manganese spring steel,
- protuberances 26 projecting outwardly from the front and rear faces of the tie, the protuberances 26 being molded integrally with the tie.
- each fastener 25 embodies several different bends which are best defined by visualizing the fastener as disposed substantially in an upright position as shown in FIG. 5, and in terms of a plane PL, FIGS. 1 and 5, which includes the vertical axis VA of the fastener, FIG. 4.
- each fastener includes a pair of legs 30 equally divergent from the axis VA and joined at their lower ends by a bend or bight 31 having a profile complemental to the underside of the protuberances 26.
- the underside of the protuberance 26 is convex, such that the bight 31 is curved upward- 1y uniformly on each side of its bisector point NP, with the legs upwardly divergent therefrom, substantially of V-shape. All bends and curves in the fastener may be defined in terms of progressive movement upward and outward from the bisector point NP along the axes of the legs 30.
- each of the legs 30 at the upper end thereof terminates in an intermediate bight 32 which commences well outboard of the base of the rail.
- Each intermediate bight 32 progressively, bends inward toward the axis VA at 32A, FIG. 4, for about 90 of bend and then, at 32B, FIGS. 1 and 3, extends both downwardly and rearwardly out of the plane PL for about another 90 of bend.
- the rear extension of each bight 32 merges into a terminal bight 34 and 35, respectively.
- the terminal bights 34 and 35 extend generally along axes parallel to the rail, overlying respective sides of the rail base, FIG. 2, and as shown in FIG. 1 the low part of each bight 34 and 35 is adapted to engage the upper face of the rail base.
- Each of the terminal bights 34 and 35 has a hook at the free end thereof, but the hooks are of slightly different configuration so that one will fit or clasp the other in a complemental fashion.
- the free end of the bight 34 is characterized by an inwardly bent arcuate hook 37, bent inward toward the axis VA, whereas the free end of the bight 35 is characterized by an upwardly bent arcuate hook 38.
- the hooks have concave faces which nest in one another.
- the construction is such that one of the legs 30 of the fastener in its free state, say the near leg 30, FIG. 9, may be held in the hand,'and the far leg moved under the protuberance 26 to present the intermediate bight associated with the far leg to the base of the rail on the far side, just as the intermediate bight 35, FIG. 9, is in engagement with the base of the rail on the near side.
- the left-hand fastener 25, FIG. 10 may be viewed as disposed in its ultimate operative position, anchored in its protuberance 26, whereupon a sturdy prise or crowbar or similarly effective tool is interposed between the bight of the right-hand loose fastener and the underside of the tie protuberance 26. Leverage is then applied to gradually move the loose or free bight 31 into locked engagement with the underside of its protuberance 26, thereby anchoring the second fastener.
- FIGS. 4 and 5 substantially into a true horizontal position (hook 37 and vertical position (hook 38) shown in FIG. 2.
- hook 37 is inclined downwardly at a slight angle of about 10 toward axis VA and hook 38 converges toward axis VA at an angle ofv about 4.
- each hook 38 is displaced from its free state plane PL-3 to be substantially vertical, and the other hook 37 is displaced from its free state plane PL-2 to be substantially horizontal.
- the rail is held to the tie by spring tension, the spring force being the two fasteners, and sufilcient stressing of the tie pro tuberance is involved as to prompt an unusual way of reinforcing the protuberances, and the main body of the tie therebetween as Well, as will now be explained.
- the reinforce 20, FIGS. 1 and 6, is in the form of a grid or grill of rod form and is defined by a plurality of string ers 50 joined by cross ribs 51 as by welding the cross ribs to the stringers 50.
- the reinforcing grid is of symmetrical form at its ends, somewhat complemental to the protuberance 26, and in keeping with this concept the stringers include end stringers 50-1, FIG. 7, intermediate stringers 50-2, and medial stringers 50.3.
- the stringers are bent in an unusual way as will be described in detail, such that in their undeveloped or unbent form the cross ribs 51 are displaced considerably from the free ends of the stringers.
- each stringer has a downward bend 52 therein, FIG.
- each stringer having a downwardly extending leg respectively identified as 52-1, 52-2, and 52-3, FIG. 6, noting that the vertical legs thus presented are of progressively longer length proceeding inward from the end stringer 50-1 to the medial stringer 50-3.
- the terminal extensions 54 are of progressively shorter length, 54-1, 54-2 and 54-3.
- each stringer is bent downwardly at 55 to afford a hook, and as shown in FIG. 1 selected ones of the hooks 55 may be associated in hooked engagement with the reinforcing rods R which extend at right angles to the stringers 50.
- the portions of the stringers outward of the cross-bars or ribs 51 present something of the cornplement of each tie protuberance 26 to be reinforced thereby, so that the longest legs of the stringers, 52-3, FIG. 2, occupy the thickest part of the protuberance, and the bends in the stringers, 52 and 53, are within the protuberance.
- a rail fastener having two free ends to be associated in hooked engagement with the free ends of another fastener of like construction for holding a rail to a tie, being of one-piece spring metal and including, when positioned substantially upright: a pair of legs joined by a bight substantially in V-shape, said bight and legs being adapted to embrace a protuberance on one side of the tie, said legs and said bight lying substantially in a common plane and the legs diverging upwardly at sub stantially equal angles measured from a longitudinal axis lying in said plane and extended from the bisector point of the bight, each leg having an upper end to be outboard of the base of the rail on the tie and joined to an intermediate bight which, progressively, bends inward toward said axis then downward and rearward out of said plane to overlie the base of the rail, the rearward extension of each intermediate bight merging into a terminal bight having a low part engageable with the upper face of the base of the rail, and each terminal bight
- a fastener according to claim 1 in which one of the hooks is characterized by an upright leg and in which the other hook is arcuateand substantially horizontal.
- a rail fastener having two free ends to be associated in hooked engagement with the free ends of another fastener of like construction for holding a rail to a tie, being of one-piece spring metal and including, when positioned substantially upright: a pair of legs joined at their lower ends by a bight substantially in V-shape, said bight and legs being adapted to embrace in tension a pro- References Cited tuberance on one side of the tie, each leg having an up- UNITED STATES PATENTS per end to be outboard of the base of the rail on the tie 1,440,062 12/ 1922 Costello 238-324 and joined to an intermediate bight which bends inward 5 3,055,914 11/1962 Rigby 238349 to overlie the base of the rail, each intermediate bight FOREIGN PATENTS merging into a terminal bight having a low part engage- 86,039 8/1965 Norway 1,130,461 5/ 1962 Germany 238-349 able with the upper face of the base of the rail, and each
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US4365744A (en) * | 1980-09-19 | 1982-12-28 | Moehren Hans Heiner | Anchor lock fastening assembly |
US4454985A (en) * | 1981-08-27 | 1984-06-19 | Carter Joseph H | Device for clamping rails to ties |
US4511081A (en) * | 1982-01-21 | 1985-04-16 | The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited | Rail anchoring clip and associated sleeper |
US4583685A (en) * | 1982-12-06 | 1986-04-22 | The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited | Rail anchoring |
RU196437U1 (en) * | 2019-08-19 | 2020-02-28 | Акционерное общество "БэтЭлТранс" | Reinforced concrete sleepers with bar reinforcement and additional spiral end reinforcement |
RU196438U1 (en) * | 2019-08-19 | 2020-02-28 | Акционерное общество "БетЭлТранс" | Reinforced concrete sleepers with rod reinforcement and additional reinforcement of the end part with frames |
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US4365744A (en) * | 1980-09-19 | 1982-12-28 | Moehren Hans Heiner | Anchor lock fastening assembly |
US4454985A (en) * | 1981-08-27 | 1984-06-19 | Carter Joseph H | Device for clamping rails to ties |
US4511081A (en) * | 1982-01-21 | 1985-04-16 | The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited | Rail anchoring clip and associated sleeper |
US4583685A (en) * | 1982-12-06 | 1986-04-22 | The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited | Rail anchoring |
RU196437U1 (en) * | 2019-08-19 | 2020-02-28 | Акционерное общество "БэтЭлТранс" | Reinforced concrete sleepers with bar reinforcement and additional spiral end reinforcement |
RU196438U1 (en) * | 2019-08-19 | 2020-02-28 | Акционерное общество "БетЭлТранс" | Reinforced concrete sleepers with rod reinforcement and additional reinforcement of the end part with frames |
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Owner name: ABC RAIL CORPORATION, A CORP. OF DE. Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST.;ASSIGNOR:ABEX CORPORATION;REEL/FRAME:004811/0061 Effective date: 19870708 |
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