US432101A - Rail-joint - Google Patents

Description

(No Model.)

. R. N. WALD.

' UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

RICHARD NELSON WVALD, OF EARLVILLE, ILLINOIS.

RAIL-JO INT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 4.32,101,dated July 15,1890. Application filed April 3, 1890. Serial Nox 346,462. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: 7

Beitknown that I, RICHARD NELsON IVALD, a citizen of Earlville, in the county of La Salle and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in railroad-joints, and has for its object to provide simple devices whereby two rail-sections may be easily, quickly, and securely united together and to the railroad-ties.

A further object is to produce simple and efflci'ent devices for joining two rail-sections, said devices being so constructed that they shall be capable of withstanding any additional strain which may be brought to bear thereon at the point where two rails meet.

A further object is to so construct devices for connecting two rail-sections that said devices shall have a flat bearing on the web and flanges of the rail and the railroad-ties.

A further object is to so secure the connecting plates or devices to the rail and ties that the fastening devices which secure the plates and rail together will be out of line with the fastening devices which secure the plates to the ties.

IVith these objects in view the invention consists in certain novel features of construetion and combinations and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in theclaims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a: plan view of my invention, showing the same applied to two rail-sections. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Fig. 3 is an end view.

A A represent two rail-sections located upon ties 13. A fish-plate O is secured to and at opposite sides of the rails A A, and are made of sufficient length to lie upon three railroadties D D D the central tie D lying directly under the joint a of the rail-sections A A. Each fish-plate O is made with an upright portion 7), adapted to lie flat against the web of the rail and abut against the tread thereof, said portions 1) and the rail-web being provided with aligned perforations for the reception of securing-bolts b',by means of which the fish-plates O and the rails are secured together. From the vertical portion 1; the plates 0 project downwardly and outwardly to produce a flange 0, extending from end to end of said plate. The under face of the flange c is cut away, wherebyit is made to conform to the flange of the rail, a shoulder (Z being formed, which shoulder abuts against the edge of the rail-flange. The under face of the flange 0 is adapted to lie upon the ties, and at its edge is provided with a series of notches c 6 c and are-so located that they shall be out of line with the bolts Z), which secure the fishplates 0 to the rails, and the notches of one plate will be out of line with the notches of the other plate. The notches c of the respect ive plates which coincide with the central tie D will be so arranged that they will be out of line with the joint of the two rail-sections and out of line" with each other. At the center of each plate (Limmediately beneath the joint of the two rail-sections, a solid rib E is made, said rib being made at the junction of the portions 1) c of the plate, and made to extend over a portion of each part Z) c of the plate and at opposite sides of the joint of the rail-sections The body or bulk of the rib or shoulder E is immediately beneath the joint a of the rail-sections, and thus strengthens the plate 0 at the point where the greatest strain is likely to come.

A rail-joint constructed and arranged as above set forth is exceedingly simple, cheap to manufacture, and effective in the performance of the function for which it is intended.

I-Iaving fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. Plates for connecting railroad-rails and for locking them to the ties, each comprising a vertical portion for contact with the web of the rail and the under side of the tread, oblique portion integral with the vertical portion for contact with the flange and with the ties, and a solid rib integral with the vertical and oblique sections, the said rib being thicker and wider at the angle of the two sections than at any other point, substantially as shown.

2. The combination, with rails and ties, of the plates, each having a vertical portion for engaging the web and the under side of the tread, an oblique portion for engaging the flange and ties, the said oblique pol tion hztv- In testimony whereof I have signed this ing notches arranged; as described, to receive specification in the presence of two subscribspikes, and 2t solid rib integral with the vering Witnesses.

tieal and oblique portions the said rib being RICHARD NELSON \VALD. 5 thicker and wider at the angle of the two see- Witnesses:

tions than at any other point, substantially ANDREW J. PEPPER,

as set forth. L. O. BROWNE.

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