US394867A

US394867A - Rail-joint union

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Publication number: US394867A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1888-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 1905-12-18

Description

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W. LOWE.

RAIL JOINT UNION.

No. 394,867. Patented Dec. 18, 1888.

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PATENT IVILLIAM LOIVE, OF GREENBUSH, NEIV YORK.

RAIL-JOINT UNION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,867, dated December 18, 1888.

Application filed June 13,1888. Serial No. 276,949. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM LOWE, a resident of Greenbush, (Troy I. in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Rail-Joint Unions; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar letters refer to similar parts in the several figures therein.

My invention relates to improvements in rail-joint unions and it consists of the novel construction and combination of parts, hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

The object of the invention is made to appear in connection with the following description.

Figure of the drawings is a top plan. view of my improved device, shown in position for use, with the rails detached, the relative position of the rails being indicated by dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section taken on the broken. line .20 .r in Fig. 1, showing the members of the union spiked to a cross-tie and supporting one end of a railwayrail. Fig. 3 is a sectional view similar to that of Fig. 2, and showing a position of the members while the parts are being locked or unlocked in making or breaking the union. Fig. I is a bottom plan view of that member of the union termed the locking-bar detached. Fig. 5 is a top plan view of the other member of the union, called the chair, detached.

My improved union consists, essentially, of two members, A and B, \vhichI term, respectively, chair and locking-bar.

The chair A is provided with a bed-plate, A, adapted to support the feet of the rail 0, also with an upwardly-projecting flange, A adapted to form a lateral support for the web of the rail; also, with a horizontal flange, A adapted to rest upon the cross-tie D and be secured thereto, as by bolts or spikes a.

The locking-bar B is provided with the horizontal flange B, adapted to be secured to the cross-tie in the same manner as the chairflange, as by spikes a, and with an upwardly-projecting flange, B adapted to form a lateral support for the web of the rail; also, with a recess or eye, B adapted to receive a pivotal hook or spur, A", projecting from one side of the chair.

The members are each provided with spikeholes I). In applying the members of my improved union to the support of a railway-rail joint the ends of the rails to be joined are first seated upon the bed-plate A in substantially the position shown in Fig. 2 and by dotted line in Fig.1. The chair is then lifted and tilted, as shown in Fig. 3, and the flange B of the locking-bar passed over the hook A until the latter enters the recess or eye B and permits the flange B to pass under the ball of the rail from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 2, in which latter position they are securely locked together by the hook and recess, and cannot be unlocked with out lifting the chair and rail. By having the hook A project above and to one side of the rail-seat it forms a pivotal connection in the eye B between the two members, which permits of their being easily forced from the position shown in Fig. 3 to that shown in Fig. 2, and back again, as desired, when the members are not spiked to the cross-tie. They are secured to the crosstie by the spikes (L a. It should be observed that the web of the rail is tightly inclosed between the two flanges A and E the latter fitting the curve at the junction of the web and ball of the rail and affording a rigid lateral support for each side of the rail. The flanges are provided with end extensions, (1 d, which may be of any desired length and serve as an auxiliary support. lVhen desired, a post or stud may be erected from the bed-plate A to act as a stop to prevent the longitudinal displacement of the rails.

There may be a stop for each rail located at any convenient point to engage wit-h the rails; but I prefer to locate a single stop at a central point on one side of the bed-plate, as shown at E in Fig. 5 and by dotted lines in Fig. 1, where it is adapted to engage with the end of each rail when one corner of the railflanges has been chipped off, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1. I am thus able to rigidly secure the contiguous ends of the rails in perfect alignment with each other without in any manner attacking or weakening the web or ball of the rails or interfering with. expansion and contraction. No bolts are required, and there are no nuts to loosen and impair the rigidityof the device, nor other small parts to adjust and readjust or replace.

The whole device is composed of the two members A and B. The lateral support atforded will permit of the use of lighter rails.

The device can be applied to the support of the rails intermediately of their ends, and it may be used upon every cross-tie when desired to secure additional resistance to lateral strains upon sharp curves or elsewhere.

\Yhen used intermediately of the rail ends, the stops E would be dispensed with as unnecessin'y and to leave the bed-plate free to receive and support the rail.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

i. In a rail-joint union, the combination, with a chair provided with a rail-scat and having on one side of such seat a eross-tie flange and a laierallv-supporting rail-flange and on the opposite side a pivotal hook projecting' above and to one side of such seat, of a locking-bar provided on its opposite edges with a cross-tietlang'e and alaterally-supporting rail-flange and intermediatcly oi such flanges with an eye adapted to receive such pivotal hook, substantially as described.

2. In a rail-joint union, the combination, with a chair having a rail-seat and provided with a cross-tie flange, a laterally-supporting rail-flange having end extensions, (1, and a pivotal. hook, 1\",()ill a locking-bar provided with a cross-tie flange, a laterally-s11pporti11g rail-flange having end extensions, (1, and intermediately of such flanges with an eye adapted to receive such pivotal hool\',substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 'l2th day of June, 1885*.

WILLIAM LOWE.

\Vitnesses:

G130. A. MosHEn, CHAS. L. ALDEN.