US503254A - Price railway - Google Patents

Description

- (No Model.)

' PaleritedAug, 15,1893.

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Ki -w UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES M. PRICE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE PRICE RAILWAY APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

TRUSS RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 503,254, dated August 15, 1893.

Application filed Apn'l 18, 1892. Serial No. 429,586- (No model.)

To 61/ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PRICE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Truss Rail-Joints, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a pair .of joint plates formed as hereinafter described, each plate being adapted to embrace the opposite flanges of two meeting rails in a deep groove in its head, which forms the top of an angle bar whose foot meets its fellow midway under the rail, said plates having shoulders at each end adapted to rest upon the adjacent cross ties, while their bodies suspended between the ties, form asupporting truss which carries the two rails across the intervening space.

It also consists in means substantially as described for stiffening the bodies of the plates in such manner that they give firm support to the rails at their meeting point between the ties.

It also consists in forming the joint plates with deep grooves which are adapted to receive the flanges of the rails andpermit the plates to be driven closely together as the surfaces wear.

Figure 1 represents a top or plan view of the plates for forming a rail joint embodying my invention, the rails being omitted. Figs. 2 and trepresent side elevations taken respectively from the inner and outer sides thereof. Fig. 3 represents an end view thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings: A designates the heads of the joint plates, the same being enlarged and preferably rounded and formed with grooves B, which are of such depth that V spaces B exist between the side edges of the flanges of the rails and inner ends of the grooves, so that the plates may be driven up,

so as to be brought close together when the surfaces wear.

Depending from the heads A are the webs C, and from the lower ends thereof project in lateral direction, the feet D, forming angle bars, the opposite feet whereof meet midway under the rail.

The plates extend beyond I form on the same the ribs E and F, the same being respectively on the inner and outer faces of-said bodies at the middle and ends thereof, thus providing a firm support for the rails at their meeting point between the ties.

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

1. A metallic truss for a rail joint composed of plates having heads with end shoulders adapted to rest upon the cross ties, and a body or web portion provided with ribs, substantially as described.

2. Two joint plates of the general shape of an angle bar topped by a head deeply grooved and adapted to embrace in its grooves the flanges of two meeting T or other rails, the body, thereof being ribbed along its edges and in the middle, adapted to hang between terminal shoulders resting upon both rails and cross ties, to carry the two rails like a beam truss at the point of their meeting, the joint plates being bolted together firmly beneath the rails, substantially as described.

3. A joint consisting of two ribbed and shouldered joint plates, having heads deeply guttered to embrace the meeting rails by firmly grasping their flanges in the grooves, feet shaped in section like an angle bar and meeting midway under the rails, shoulders at their ends resting upon both rails and ties, and a body suspended between the ties, bolted to each other beneath the rails and thus constituting a beam truss to grasp and carry the rails at their point of meeting, substantially as described.

45. A pair of joint plates each shaped like an angle bar with heads embracing firmly in deep grooves the flanges of two T or other railroad rails at and near their point of meeting, the plates terminating at each end in a shoulder resting in part upon the rail and in part on the cross tie supporting the rail, the

body, being stiifened and strengthened by ribs along its edges and in the middle, to carry the rails like a beam truss at the point of meeting, being bolted to its fellow beneath the rails,with space or allowance in the grooves and outside of the flanges to drive them closer as the surfaces wear, substantially as described.

5. Two ribbed and shouldered angle bars comprising heads deeply guttered to embrace the flanges of railway rails, having depth to that groove or gutter beyond the point to which the flange at first can penetrate, carrying the rails as a joint between the ties upon which the rails rest, the shoulders of the angle bars or plates resting upon both rail and tie,

while their body carries the two rails as a truss at their meeting point, substantially as described.

6. An angle bar joint with heads which embrace the rail flange firmly in a deep groove extending beyond the edge of the flange when tightly gripped at first, so as to admit of further entrance as the surfaces wear, the body of the joint being stiffened at its edges and center by stout ribs, hanging between the ties and carrying the rails as a truss over the intervening space, substantially as described.

JAMES M. PRICE.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, A. P. JENNINGS.

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