US517660A - Price railway - Google Patents

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UNITED STATES JAMES M."PRIOE, OF PHILAIJELPHIA,

PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOE To THE PRICE RAILWAY APPLIANCE COMPANY, OF PENNSYLVANIA.

claman-JOINT Fo'R .RAILROAD-RAILS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 517,660, dated AprilV 3, y1894:.

Application nea Mach ze, 199s.

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES M. PRICE, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city f and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and-useful Im- 'provement in Gird'er- Joints for'R-ailroad- Rails, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

lMy invention relates to improvements in girder joints for railroad rails and consists of metallic platesformed as hereinafter described. i I

Eigures l and 3 represent side elevations of a girder joint yfor a railroad rail embodying my mvention. Fig. 2 represents a top or plan View thereof. Fig. 4 represents a transverse vertical section thereof. f

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

e Referring to the drawings: A designates verticalplates having raised centers or combs B, and the horizontal `grooves or jaws C, in which latter the anges of the rails inclosed in the joint are rested, while the heads of the rails are supported on said centers 'or combs B.

I D designates the feet which are notchedy for the spikes, whereby the joint ymay bel attached to two adjacentties. The inner ends of the feet overhang the ties, and are.con nected with the ends of the arch E and inverted arch F, or circular guides.

G designates the bench which depends from the jaws C, and is continuous with the same. Strong ribs H, J, curved to correspond Vwith the'shape of the combined plate, jaw

and bench, surround and embrace the exteriorpart of the joint plates. vIn the bench G is a bolt opening K, which is central tol the lower arch F, whereby an .additional security is providedfor the joint plates by 'binding'to-` gether theba'ses of a pair of the same beneath the rails, as Ywell asthe middle of theV rails themselves. Y

L designates skirting rribs around the bolt" opening K, forming a box or reinforce therefor, thus adding greatly to the strength ofthe joint at its center." To further-increase the strength of the joint, slanting ribsM and N are attached vto the interior of the bench, and

theupright plate v-A, or body of thev plate, and

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Y the entire edge is skirted by projections,

which vnot only contribute muchv v to the strength of the structure, but act at its upper edge against the web of the two rails, to keep the latter to a true alignment. Openings P are made in the main plate A, the same d educting from the weight'of the same, and contributing to the elasticity of said plate. The walls of the top and bottom, andv upper and lower openings P, respectively, have thin plates Q thereon, the same being set on their l edges and connected with the front of the plate to avoid weakness at said plates. Further adjustment to a large number of rails may be had by laying a thin plate R upon the comb in the pattern, to make the height from the upper side of the rail Iiange to the under side of the head of the rail greater for` the joint, when required, so that the comb shall be in contact with the heads of the two rails where they meet, and contribute sup` port to them. It will .be observed that the central rib J has been made so shortas to comedown only to the top of the'box forthe lower bolt, to avoid interfering with the handling of the same; It'` ever found inpractice however, desirable to dispense with the hole beneaththe rail anges, I should-retain the square b ox for the bolt hole, filling in the hole itself, and run or extend the rib outward f and downward to embrace the lower edge of the underarch, thus'attaining remarkable strength at that point. e

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

1. A girder joint for meeting rails consisting of a vertical plate with a raised center, a horizontal groove forming a jaw, and feet,

feet, and a bench dependingffrom said jaw,

' arches connecting the inner end of the said saidparts being combined substantially as described. i. ,l

2. Two plates of metal, consisting each of a vertical plate resting upon the flange of two meeting rails and in part upon the cross ties on which thosel rails sit, by means of a foot vnearly horizontal spreading out upon them,

the plates strengthened by twoarches of metal, foot'to foot, and by embracing-ribs,

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binding all parts together, the platesbeing- A pierced by bolt holes and connected by bolts through the rails, and below them at one and the same time, as `a rail joint, substantially as described.

3. Two joint plates, each ribbed externally by curved and projecting ribs, and on the inner side by straight and slanting ribs, sup porting a ribbed periphery, from 'which rises at the center of the plate a comb to support at their meeting point the heads of the two meeting rails, embraced and upheld between the ties by the joint plates, these being secured together, where they embrace the anges of the rails inclosed by bolts midway of the rails themselves and traversing them and the joint plates, and by another bolt passing through the plates below the rails, the whole constituting a rail joint, substantially as described.

4. A rail joint, consisting of two metallic plates, deeply furrowed or guttered to receive and compress the flan ges of two meeting railroad rails, the plates consisting in the main of a vertical back or girder, with center raised into contact with the heads of the rails inclosed, and feet resting in part upon the rail flanges and inclosed in part upon the crossties supporting the rails, with encircling ribs and arches of metal inverted to cach other, and bolted above and below the flanges of the rails embraced, substantially as described.

5. A girder joint consisting ot' a plate with groove and feet, said plate having openings therein, and reinforce plates Q for the walls of said openings, said parts being combined substantially as described.

6. A girder joint consisting of a plate with a horizontal groove therein, and a raised ccntral portion, and feet, a depending bench with openings therein arches connecting said bench and feet, and slanting strengthening ribs and projections, said parts being com bined substantially as described.

'7. A girder joint for meeting rails havinga raised central portion, in combination with adjusting plates adapted to rest on the raised portion, substantially as described.

JAMES M. PRICE. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHnrM, A. P. JENNINGS.

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