US399696A

US399696A - Adolph rassinier

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Publication number: US399696A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-03-19
Anticipated expiration: 1906-03-19

Description

ADOLPH RASSINIER, OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELE artnr linien,

PIERRE MAROONNOT, ANI) LOUIS NICOLAS, OF SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 399,696, dated March 19, 1889.

Application led November 3, 1888. Serial No. 289,865. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADoLrH RAssINIER, of Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Nut Locks or Holders, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification.

This invention relates to devices for holding or lockingI nuts, so as to prevent them from turning on their bolts and workin g loose.

The device is specially applicable to the bolts and nuts used for holding the tish plates or bars by which`rails are joined together, the nuts used for this purpose being particularly liable to become loosened by the concussion caused by passing trains. The device, however, is not limited to this use.

` The improved nut-holder consists of three parts: first, a bar or plate adapted to be placed against the iish-plate and having at each end a notch embracing each one of the bolts, the nuts being screwed down upon this plate; second, a locking bar or plate with square notches in its ends, in which the nuts tit and which prevent their turning; and, third, a clamp which is slipped over the two plates and holds the parts firmly together.

The device can be quickly applied and taken oit, as desired.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the nut-holder; Fig. 2, a cross-section; Fig. 3, a perspective view with the clamp removed, and Fig. 4 a detail view of the clamp.

A represents the rails, B the fish-plates, O the bolts, and D the nuts, all of the usual construction.

Plate E has a notch, e, at each end, and is of such length that when put in place the bolts O will pass through these notches. Nuts D are then screwed down tight upon these plates and turned to the positions shown in the drawings. Locking-plate E has square notches f in its ends, these notches being of the same size as nuts D, which iit therein when plate F is put in position, as shown. It is evident that it is impossible for the nuts to turn so long as plate E is in place. The latter is held in position by a U-shaped clamp, G, which is slipped over the middle portion of platesE F. Said plates at this part are cut away, as shown in Eig. 3, so that when clamp G is slipped over them ilush surfaces are presented on all four sides, as shown in Eig. l. This construction also prevents clamp G from slipping.

I claixn- A nut locking or holding device comprising, in combination, the following elements: a plate having notches or apertures for the passage of the bolts and adapted to be held by the nuts screwed upon said bolts, a second plate having angular notches for locking the nuts, and a U-shaped holding-clamp fitting over t-he two plates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this speciiication in the presence of two su bscrib'- ing witnesses.

ADOLPH RASSINIER.

Witnesses:

PHILIP MAURO, C. J. HEDRICK.