US506082A - Rail-joint - Google Patents

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(No Model.)

o, TATAGG, Jr.

- RAIL JOI-NT.

Patented Dot. 3. 1,893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES-T. STAGG, JR., OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of lLetters Patent No. 506,082, dated October 3, 1893. Application tiled March 3l, 1893. Seria-l No. 468,509. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.:

Beit known that I, CHARLES T. STAGG, Jr., a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of PhiladelphiaJ and State of Pennsylvania,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Rail-Joints, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. Y

My invention relates to certain improvements in rail joints and has for its object the construction of a joint of the bridge type, which may be readily clamped on the rail and when so placed will align and hold the ends of the rails in proper position.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective View of the two sections of my improved joint detached. Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional elevation on the line -:r Fig. 2 of a rail joint Vconstructed in accordance with my invention and illustrating it in position on a rail. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same with the rail removed. Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation on the line y-y of Fig. 3 and Fig. 5 is a detached perspective View of the locking key employed for holding the parts of the joint in position.

The rail joint is made in two sections, A, B, of such shape as to tit together beneath the bottom flange of the rail, and each section is provided with a projecting lip, a, adapted to extend over the edge of the rail flange as shown more clearly in Fig. 1. The sections A and B each have two projecting portions, d, d and e, respectively, with rounded peripheral faces and two recesses with similarly rounded faces, for the reception of the projecting portions of the opposite sections; the projections of the one being adapted to lit within the recesses ofV the other and vice versa. The two portions thus interlocked are confined by keys, H, of a character more clearly shown in Fig. 5. Referring to the section, A, d, d', represent projections extending from the base portion and situated in different horizontal and Vertical planes, the projection, d, being immediately beneath and supporting the lower flange of the rail and the projection, d', being of a similar contour but situated immediately below a recess, d3, while immediately below the projection, d, is a similarly shaped recess, d4. The section, B, is provided with similar pro- A, and the projection, e', extends within the recess, d4, while the recesses, e3, and e4, are adapted respectively to receive the projection, d and d', of the section, A.

The sections A and B are provided with elongated openings, g,'g, which register or nearly register when the parts are fitted to- 'gether and through these openings are inserted locking keys, H, H of a construction more clearly shown in Fig. 5 and comprising an elongated head, h, a rectangular shank, h', and a rectangular end portion, h2, to which an operating tool may be applied. The key is inserted through the opening from below; the head, h, being presented to the opening with its longer diameter in line with the longer diameter of the opening and, when the lower langeof the rail is reached, the shank Q f the key is turned axially until the widest portion of said shank is at a right angle to the longer diameter of the opening, the upper surfaces of the projections, d e, being recessed at t' to receive the head, g, and permit the'turning of the key. When the key has reached this locking position further movement is prevented by the engagement of the head with the end of the recess and the key cannot be moved from place accidentally owing to the sharp edges, j, formed at the junction of the various sides of the rectangular shank, h.

The rail joint herein described is adapted to be placed on the rail ends between two ties but, if desired, may be of a sufcient length to rest upon such ties. The contour of the projections and recesses may be altered, if desired, in any suitable manner and it will be understood that I do not limit my invention to the particular form described.

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

1. The combination, in a rail joint, of the two oppositely shaped and interlocking sections, each section having inwardly protruding portions and recesses on dilferent horizontal levels, said sections adapted to engage into each other beneath the bottom `flange of the rail and lip for confining the flanges of the rail to the top of the joint, and provided with vertically arranged key receiving openings, and a locking key adapted to be placed in position in said openings from beneath the joint, substantially as specied.

2. The combination, in a rail joint, of the two opposite sections having recesses in different horizontal aud vertical. planes, projecting portions on each section adapted to fit within such recesses and each provided with an elongated opening, a key having a rectangular shank adapted to eacl of such openings, and elongated heads on said keys adapted to recesses in the projecting portions of the sections and a stop at the end of each recess to limit the movement of said head, substantially as described.

3. The combination, in a rail joint, of two opposite sections adapted to tit together, projecting lips on each section adapted to engage with the bottom flange of the rail, each section being provided with openings as g, g', and recesses, e', a locking key having a rect angular shank adapted to such openings whereby on the turning of the key the lips will be forced into intimate contact with the rail flange, substantially as specified.

4. The combination, in a rail joint, of two oppositely shaped and interlocking sections having longitudinally disposed anges for engaging the ange of the rail and each section having inwardly protruding portions and recesses on dierent horizontal levels and at different portions of the sections, said protruding portions of each section adapted to engage and register in the oppositely disposed recess of the opposite section, oblong, vertically disposed recesses provided in each protruding portion adapted to register with each other when the sections are adjusted together in position, a headed oblong key in cross section provided through the orifices of each of the protruding sections for locking said sections together upon the rail, substantially as described.

5. The combination, in a rail joint, of the two oppositely shaped interlocking sections A and B, each section having the inwardly protruding portions, d, d', e., e', respectively and recesses, d3, and d4, and e3, e4, respectively, said recesses adapted to receive the protruding portion of the opposite section, vertically disposed oblong orifices, g, g', provided through said sections, locking keys, H, H, secured in said orifices having a rectangular shank, h elongated head, h, and key, h2,.recess, z', provided in the upper portion of the plates, d, e,for receiving and engaging the head, h, of the said key, longitudinal lips,.a, provided upon upper surface of said sectionsfoi' engaging the base of the rail, substantially as described.

6. In combination with the two sections hav ing flange engaging lips and each provided with registering openings, of a locking key comprising an elongated head portion, a shank of rectangular form and a rectangular end portion to which an operating tool may be applied, substantially as specified.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of March, A. D. 1893.

CHARLES T. STAGG, JR.

Witnesses:

H. GORDON McCoUCH, JNO. E. PARKER.

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