US400558A

US400558A - Railroad-rail tie and fastening

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Publication number: US400558A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-04-02
Anticipated expiration: 1906-04-02

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J. FRYSINGER.

l RAILROAD RAIL- TIR ANDEASTRNING. No., 400,558. PatentedApr. 2, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

' JACOB FRYSINGER, OF MILAN, ILLINOIS.

RAILROAD-RAIL T'IE AND FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 400,558, dated April 2, 1889.

Application led June 25, 1888. Serial No. 278,189. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB FRYSINGER, o Milan, in the county of Rock Island and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Railroad-Rail Ties and Fast- -placement-mov ing toward each other or spreading apart-while provisionis also made to permit ofthe ready removal of a worn-out tie and its replacement by a new one, and to effect the expeditious laying or putting down of t-he track; and to these ends the nature of the invention consists of a tie formed of upper and lower bars and an intermediate bar interposed between and edgewise to the aforesaid bars and endwise to the sleepers, and of certain details of construction, substantially as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a transverse section. of my improved railroadrail tie and fastening; and Figs. 2 and 3 are also sectional views of the same, taken on the lines 2 2 and 3 3, respectively. A

In carrying Yout my invention I take three flat or plate-like bars, A A A, to form the tie. The upper and lower bars, A A, are arranged one below the stringers a a vand the other above, and is received in transverse grooves or recesses h b in the upper surfaces of the stringers. The grooves or recesses b b effect the holding of the tie and stringers in their relative positions. Through the b'ars A A and the stringers are passed screw-bolts c o, securing the same together. The other or intermediate platelike bar, A', is disposed edgewise between and let into shallow channels or grooves d ol in the upper and lower plate-like bars, A A, and between the stringers a o. The plate A itselfis thus retained in its edgewise position and against lateral displacement, while 'the stringers are' also held against lateral displacement, the plate vA immediately' preventing theinward lateral movement of the stringers, while the plates A prevent their outward lateral movement. The rail-chairs are formed of clampplates e e, resting upon the upper one of the plate-like bars A and the flanges of the rails, the same bolts, c c, as connect together the said bars and stringers, passing through said clamp-plates or chairs and tted with. nuts, thus securing the tie, stringers, rails, and chairs all together ina simple and expeditious manner.

From the foregoing it will also be seen that when it is desired to renew a worn-out part or parts it is only necessary to remove the nuts of the screw-bolts and lift the upper plate-like bar out of the grooves or recesses of the stringers, which will permit the removal of the defective part or parts and the replacement thereof by a sound or new part or parts, as the case may be also, the several parts of the track, formed as above described, are readily and easily handled-enabling the expeditious putting down or laying of the track.

The stringers may be made or metal.

either of wood what l claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isy l. The railroad-rail tie-fastening consisting of the upper and lower bars and an intermediate bar interposed between and edgewise to the aforesaid bars and endwise to the sleepers, substantially as set forth.

2. The railroad-rail tie consisting of the upper and lower plate-like bars and an intermediate edgewise-disposed plate-like bar let into grooves or channels in the aforesaid bars, substantially as set forth.

3. Therailroad-rail tie consisting of the upper and lower plate-like bars and an intermediate edgewise-disposed plate-like bar let into grooves or channels in the upper and lower bars, the upper and lower bars being arranged one above and let into transverse grooves or recesses in the upper surfaces of the stringers, and the lower one below the stringers, substantially as specified.

4. The railroad-rail tie comprising the upper and lower plate-like bars and an intermediate,edgewise-disposed plate-like bar let into grooves Vor channels of the upper and lowerbars, and the chairs consisting of clampplates resting upon the upper bar and held in place by bolts passing through said upper and lower bars, substantially as vset forth.

JACOB FRYSINGER.

e JAMES H. SoUTHwELL.

Having thus full-y described my invention,

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