US470094A

US470094A - Railway-tie

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Publication number: US470094A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1892-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 1909-03-01

Description

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 470,094, dated March 1, 1892.

Application tiled April 24.., 1891.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS C. ANDERSON, of Moscow, in the county of Livingston and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Railway-Tie, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in railway-ties; and the object of my invention is to produce a cheap and durable metal tie which is constructed in such a manner that it may be easily laid, that it will hold the rails securely in place, that it may be easily adj usted in any kind of weather so as to bring a rail into a desired position as regards height, and which has all the elastic qualities of wood.

To this' end my invention consists in a railway-tie constructed substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, similar figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a broken sectional plan of a railway-tie embodying my invention with rails secured thereon. Fig. 2 is a broken vertical longitudinal section through the tie and rails. Fig. 8 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a broken side elevation showing a device for securing the ends of the rails and preventing them from separating; and Fig. 5 is an end view of the same, showing the rail in section.

The tie 10 is composed of two separable parts 1l and 12, each of which is substantially rectangular in shape, and each of which is hollow and open on one side, the lower part 1l being open at the top and the upper part 12 at the bottom. The parts are constructed so that the upper portion 12 will lit closely within the lower portion 11, and to prevent the upper part from sliding it is preferably made somewhat shorter than the lower part, and the part 11 is provided near the ends with lugs 13, which are secured to its inner walls and overlap the walls of the upper part 12. The upper part 12 of the tie is provided near opposite ends with clips 14, which are preferably struck up from the metal forming the tie, and these clips are adapted to iit over the flanges of the rails 15 and have their ends Serial No. 390,255. (No model.)

strike against the webs of the rails. In connection with these clips other clips 1G are used, which are arranged on the outside and inside of the rails, the outside clips serving as an additional guard on curves, so that if the clips 14 should break the rails would still be held. The clips 16 are pivoted, as shown at 17, to the tie, and they are adjusted so that when swung against the rail their ends will abut with the web thereof, and the clips are held in place by bolts 18, which extend downward through the clips and through the upper portion of the tie.

Near each end of the upper portion 12 of the tie are inclined bridges' 19, which have their ends 2O bent at an angle and firmly bolted to the side walls of the part 12. Beneath these bridges 19 are wedges 21, the bevel of which corresponds with the inclination of the bridge 19, and to prevent the withdrawal of the wedges small lugs 22 are formed on or secured to the upper side of the tie-bottom. It will thus be seen that when the rails are in place upon the upper portion of the sleeper the wedges may be driven inward and the part 12 of the tie will rest upon the wedges, thus giving to the tie the same elasticity that a wooden sleeper has, as the wedges are preferably made of wood. The wedgesl also afford means for adjusting the tie vertically. The

rails are secured in place upon the tie by slid' ing them sidewise under the xed clips 1J. and then securing the clips 16 in the manner already described.

In Figs. 4. and 5 I have shown a device in which the ends of the rails may be secured, and which prevents the rails from spreading. It comprises a rectangular hollow sleeper 23, which is open at the bottom, and which has at the top a plate 24 with inclined lugs 25 on 9 opposite sid es thereof, and thelugs are shaped to fit the iiange of a rail and rest against the web, as best shown in Fig. 5. The sides of the sleeper are long enough to extend between two ties, and the top plate 24 projects from the ends and is adapted to rest upon the tops of the ties. The sleeper is secured to the ties. The ends of the rails are held between the lugs 25, andare thereby prevented from separating.

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Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Let-ters Patentl. A railway-tie consisting of two Vertical- 5 ly-separable parts and Wedges Jfor separating the parts, substantially as described.

2. A railway-tie comprising two verticallyseparable parts, the upper or" 'which has inclined bridges near the ends, and Wedges ro adapted to fit between the bridges and the bottom portion of the tie, substantially as described.

3. The combination of the two parts] l and l2, the part ll having lugs on the bottom and the part l2 having inclined bridges near its ends, and Wedges adapted to fit between the bridges and ille tie-bottom, substantially as described.

4. A railway-tie comprising two verticallyseparable parts adapted to close one Within the other and means for adjusting the parts in relation to each other, substantially as dcscribed.

THOMA'S C. ANDERSON.

Witnesses:

S. R. THOMPSON, J. N. SWAN.