US452833A

US452833A - Rail-joint

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Publication number: US452833A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1891-05-26
Anticipated expiration: 1908-05-26

Description

(No Model.)

W. H. GONNELL.

RAIL JOINT.

No. 452.833. Patented May 26, 1891,.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

VILLIAM H. CONNELL, OF lVILMINGTON, DELAlVARE.

RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 452,833, dated May 26, 1891.

Application filed September 17, 1890. Serial No. 365,282. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom. t 71mg/ concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM ll. CONNELL, of Wilmington, county of New Castle, State of Delaware, have invented a certain new and useful Rail-Joint, of which the following is a true and exact description, reference being' had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification;

My invention relates to the construction of rail-joints and the parts thereof, and has for its'object to provide a new and useful construction of joint well adapted for the exigencies of railway use.

The nature of my invention will be best understood as described in connection with the drawings, in which it is illustrated, and the novel features which I desire to protect by this patent are hereinafter clearly set forth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my joint in the form which I prefer as best adapted for use; Fig. 2, a section on the line 1 2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a side elevation ofl a modification of my improved joint, and Fig. 4. a section on the line 3 et of Fig. 3.

A A are the two. ties or sleepers adjacent to the rail-joint. the rails.

C C are tish-plates, which, like the wellknown double-angle iish-plates, have an upright member c and an approximately horizontal member c. I extend this horizontal member beyond the side of the rail and bring it down so that it will rest on the sleepers, as is indicated at c2, and through this extension c2 I form openings, as c or c5, for the passage of the ends of the tie-rods hereinafter described. Preferably I bend or corrugate the extension c2, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, at c3, forming the tie-bolt holes at the ends of the corrugation, as shown at c,- but the extensions may be fiat, or nearly so, as shown in Figs. 3 and e, and the bolt-holes may then be like those marked c5, Fig. 3.

D D, Figs. 3 and 4, are castings, having a projection, as d, fitting in the opening c", and through which the tie ends pass, these castings serving to provide shoulders for the nuts at right angles to the tie ends.

F is a strut placed below the center of the joint, as shown, and E E are tie-rods which B B are the abutting ends of pass beneath the strut and have their ends extending through the openings at the ends of the extensions c2 of the fish-plate.

e e, tbc., are nuts screwing on the ends of the tie-rods E, and, as shown, resting on the shoulders c'lof the corrugation or on the equiv alent surface provided by the block lD.

G Gr G, rbc., are bolts and nuts securing the fish-plates to the rails in the usual manner.

It will be seen that by using my joint, as shown, the strains on the rail ends are transmitted through the strut F and tie-rods E to the extensions of the sh-plates and partly converted into a compression strain on said extension and partly taken up on the ties or sleepers A, upon which the extensions c2 rest at their ends.

In other-patentapplicationsnowpendingand tiled by me as follows: February 3, 1890, Serial No. 339,039; February 2l, 1890, Serial Nos. 341,289 and 3etl,325; April 25, 1890, Serial No. 349,413, and July 29, 1890, Serial No. 360,277, I have shown and described joints having a similar general construction to that above specified, the principal novel feature of which is in the construction and use of the extension c2 of the double-angle fish-plate, adapting it for use in forming the joint in theway shown anddescribed.

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

1. A rail-splice plate made in the form of a double-angle fish-plate and having its horizontal member continued out beyond the edge of the rail struck up to a U form and provided with holes at the ends of said U-shaped portion for the passage ot a tie-rod, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. A rail-joint having in combination with the ends of the rails and the adjacent ties double-angle fish-plates C, having their horizontal members extended out beyond the edge of the rail and brought down to the level of the rail-base, so as to rest upon the ties, a strut F, placed beneath the joint of the rails, and tie-bolts E E, passing beneath the strut and through openings in the extension 0f the fishplate, all substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. A rail-joint having in combination with IOC the ends of the rails and the adjacent ties and through openings in the extensions of vdouble-angle fish-plates C, having their horithe fish-piates formed at the ends of the U- zontal members extended ont beyond the edge shaped portion. of the rail and struck up into a U form, the

5 ends of said extensions resting on the ties, a Witnesses:

strut F, placed beneath the joint of the rails, J AMES J. SPRINGER, and tie-bolts E E, passing beneath the strut DE HAVEN MORRIS.

XVM. H. CONNELL.