US388241A

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Publication number: US388241A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-08-21
Anticipated expiration: 1905-08-21

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G. H. BARGE.

RAIL FASTENING.

N0. 388,241. Patented Aug. 21, 1888.

ra'rns llnrrs arssr FFIC'JEO GEORGE H. BARGE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO \VILLIAM XVI-IARTON, JR, AND COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF SAME PLACE.

RAIL-FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 388,241, dated August 21, 1888.

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T 0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. BARGE, a citizen .of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Itail-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to so construct a combined tie-plate and brace-piece that on spiking the tie-plate down the brace piece will tend to bind firmly upon the rail, and I so construct the parts that the down ward pressure of the rolling-stock will tend to increase the pressure of the brace-piece upon the rail.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved combined tieplate and brace-piece, with the rail in section. Fig. 2 is a view showingthe brace-piece thrown back and the rail being inserted or removed. Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the tie-plate, and Fig. 4.- is a detached perspective view of the brace-piece.

A is the rail, of the ordinary T shape, but it will be understood that any form of rail may be used with the device.

B is the tie-plate; D, the brace'piece. E E are the securing spikes or bolts, and F is the wooden crosstie, although it will be understood that metallic or other forms of crossties may be used without departing from my invention.

I prefer to make the tie plate of sheet metal struck up into the form required, and for this purpose I cut out two sections and strike them up to form lips I) b, which overlap one of the baseilanges of the rail. I strike up from the opposite side of the baseplate Ba lip, c, to the position shown, thus forming an opening, 0, through which the tail-piece (Z of the brace D can be inserted. This tail-piece is somewhat thicker than the tie-plate, so that when the tail-piece is in the position shown in Fig. 1 the lip 0 will bear upon it, and it will be tightly secured between this lip c and the tie F when the plate B is secured to the latter by means of the spikes E E.

The brace-piece D has a face, (1, which rests against the web of the rail, and preferably,

as shown in Fig. 1, against the upper corner of the rail, so that it will not only take the side-thrust, but also the compressionthrust, of the weight of the rolling-stock. The bracepiece has a suitable web, a, which tends to strengthen said brace-piece, this web extending down through an opening, 0 in the struck-up lip c. This brace-piece is so formed as to provide a ledge, c, which overlaps the base-flange of the rail A.

It will be understood that instead of the struck-up sheet-metal tieplate B, a cast tieplate may be used; but I prefer, for the sake of cheapness, to use the struck-up sheet-metal tie-plate.

The rail being placed in position, as shown in Fig. 2, the tail of the brace-piece is then inserted through the opening 0, and the brace is moved in the direction of its arrow to the position shown in Fig. 1, and after the gage has been set the plate is spiked down, clamping the tail-piece of the brace between the struckup lip c and the tie, thus firmly securing it in position. \Vhen the pressure of the rolling-stock comes on the rail, it will press upon the tieplate, and consequently through the tie-plate upon the tail of the brace piece, thus tending to more securely lock the braccpicce to the rail while the rolling-stock is passing over. To remove the tieplate from the rail, the spikes are withdrawn and the plate slipped to one side of the tie, which will allow the brace-piece to be removed, as shown in Fig. 2, after which the rail can be removed, as indicated in said fig ure, and a new rail inserted.

I claim as my invention 1. The combination of the rail with the tieplate having lips overlapping one side of the base-flange of the rail, and having a raised lip and opening on the opposite side ofsaid baseflange, with a bracepiece adapted. to bear against the rail, and having atail-picce adapted to said opening and confined to the rail by said lip of the tie-plate, all substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of the rail, the tie-plate having lips overlapping the base-flange of the rail, and having a raised lip, 0, and opening In testimony whereofIhave signed my name 0, with a brace-piece provided with a tail to this specification in the presence of two subpiece thicker than the said tie-plate and inscribing Witnesses.

serted beneath thelip a, so that as pressure is GEORGE H. BARGE. 5 applied to the tie plate the brace-piece will be \Vitnesses:

firmly locked in position, substantially as de- EDWARD M. RILEY,

scribed. HENRY HowsoN.