US410452A

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Publication number: US410452A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1889-09-03
Anticipated expiration: 1906-09-03

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E. SAMUEL.

RAIL CHAIR.

Patented Sept. 3, 1889.

(No Model.)

Wil /mosses o' M I g Q mvwht UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDIVARD SAMUEL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO VVIL- LIAM IVHARTON, JR, AND COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF SAME PLACE.

RAIL-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 410,452, dated. September 3, 1889.

Application filed June 10, 1889. Serial No. 313,716. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD SAMUEL, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Rail-Chairs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to so construct a railroad-rail chair from a rolled beam or shape that said chair will be of light weight and of great strength, so as to withstand the pressure applied to it in use.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improved rail-chair. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view of the beam from which the chair is made, and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are views of different forms of beam from which the chair can be made.

A is the chair, made from a section of a beam or shape of the form shown in Fig. 3, the web a of which has been partially out out at the portions 1) and c, Fig. 1.

The dotted lines in Fig. 1 show the portions of the upper plate having a part of the vertical web attached to each portion, as they appear after this partial cutting away of the web a has been done. These portions, when bent upward into the proper positions, form the rail-retaining lugs or lips e and f, the lip 0 f fitting snugly over one side of the base-flange of the rail B, while the other lug or lip e extends a certain distance above the other side of the base-flange of the rail. Between said lug e and the rail is inserted a metallic or other wedged, which, when driven into place, bears against the web of the rail, upon the base-flange of the rail, and against the retaining-lug e.

By removing only certain portions of the web a of the beam, as shown at b and c, Fig. 1, I am enabled to provide the lugs c and f with ribs 6 and f, thus adding greatly to their strength, and when the wedge d is driven home a solid and very secure fastening for the rail is obtained. I11 the lower flange of the chair thus formed I punch holes, through which pass the spikes to secure the chair to the cross-tie or to the stringer, as the case may be.

The chair may be made from beams of other shapes, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, and 6, and as set forth in a separate application filed by me of even date herewith. In all cases, however, the web of the beam is severed, so as to enable the retaining lug or lugs of the chair to be turned up; and although I prefer to sever the web at a certain distance below the top flange of the beam, yet in some instances, where a very light chair is required, I may cut the web directly up to the under side of the upper flange of the beam and then bend the lugs into their positions.

I claim as my invention- 1. A rail-chair made from a beam or shape, having a web and a top plate or flange, and having the web partly severed and that portion of the top plate or flange thus freed bent so as to form a rail-retaining lip, substantially as specified.

2. A rail-chair made from a beam or shape, having a web and top plate or flange, and having the web partly severed and that portion of the top flange thus freed bent over in the direction of the length of the beam, so as to form a rail-retaining lip, substantially as set forth.

3. A rail-chair made from a beam or shape, having a web and base and top plate or flange, and having the web partly severed and that portion of the top plate thus freed bent so as to form a rail-retaining lip, substantially as specified.

4. A rail-chair made from a beam or shape, having a web and top plate or flange, and having the web severed at a point some distance below the top flange and the portion of the top flange with adhering web thus freed bent to form a rail-retaining lip with outer strengthening-rib, substantially as specified.

5. A rail-chair made from a beam or shape, the outer portions of the top plate and portions of the web being bent upward to form ribbed retaining-lugs for the rail, substantially as described.

6. A rail-chair made from a beam or shape, having aweb and top plate or flange, and having the web partly severed and that portion of the top flange thus freed bent to form a rail-retaining lip, the web extending diagonally outward from said lug toward the base, substantially as set forth.

7. The combination of a rail-chair made from a beam or shape and having lips or lugs e and f, the lug 6 extending a certain distancg above the foot of the rail, with a wedge bearing against the web and flange of the rail EDWD' SAMUEL \Vitnesses:

LOUIS KOPPENHOEFER,

HARRY SMITH.

to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

5 and against the inner face of the retaininglug e, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name