US637180A

US637180A - Railroad angle-bar.

Info

Publication number: US637180A
Application number: US70984899A
Authority: US
Inventors: Owen Sullivan
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1899-03-20
Filing date: 1899-03-20
Publication date: 1899-11-14
Anticipated expiration: 1916-11-14

Description

Patented Nov. I4, 1899. ULLIVAN. n ANGLE BAR Y filed Mar. 20, 1899.)

RA] LR (Applica UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

OWEN SULLIVAN, OF FREDERIGKSBURG, IOWA.

RAlLROAD ANGLE-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 637,180, dated November 14, 1899.

Application filed March 20, 1899. Serial No. 709,848. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OWEN SULLIVAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fredericksburg, in the county of Chickasaw and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Railway-Rail Joint, of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide an improved railway-rail joint; and my invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a railwaychair having an integral splice-bar. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a mating splice-bar adapted to engage the free edge of the horizontal portion of the chair and the abutting ends of rails in a track and also the side faces of crossties. Fig. 3 is a view of the complete joint.

The letterA designates the chair, that may vary in length and weight as desired. It is reinforced at its ends by integral angular downward projections B, that serve as shoulders to overlie and engage the side faces of cross-ties C, as shown in Fig. 3 and as required, to prevent any longitudinal movement of the chair relative to the ties and track. Its top face is flat and adapted to be moved laterally as required to be slipped in and out from'abutting ends of rails.

D is a splice-bar formedintegral with one edge portion of the chair and adapted in shape to overlie the webs of rails and to engage the under sides of the heads of the rails. At the central portion of the other parallel edge of the chair A is an elongated notch f, adapted to admit a downward extension or tongue 9 of the mating splice-bar D (shown in Figs. 2 and 3,) as required to engage cross ties and to prevent any longitudinal movement of the said splice-bar relative to the chair and the rails supported on the chair. It is obvious there may be two notches f and two tongues 9 when the chair rests upon three ties in place of two.

The splice-bars are provided with coinciding bolt-holes, and the lower edge of the bar D has notches that coincide with spike-holes in the chair A in such a manner that when the chair and splice-bars are combined with the abuttingends of rails and cross-ties, as shown in Fig. 3, all the parts will be rigidly locked together to produce a solid joint that will not vibrate under the weighty tread of the wheels of locomotives and trains, and when the bolts and spikes are withdrawn the two parts fitted to the rails can be readily removed without lifting the rails.

Having thus described my invention, its practical operation and utility will be readily understood by persons familiar with the art to which it pertains, and what I therefore claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent therefor, is

1. In a railway-joint, a railway-chair having a fiat top face to engage the bottom of rails angular downward extensions at its ends adapted to engage the side faces of cross-ties,

an integral splice-bar at one of its parallel edges and a notch in the other edge of its horizontal flat-faced portion to admit the tongue of a mating splice-bar, as shown and described for the purposes stated.

2. A railway-rail joint comprising a railway-chair having downward extensions at its ends adapted to engage the side faces of crossties, an integral splice-bar at one of its parallel edges adapted to overlie the flanges and webs of rails and a notch in the central portion of the other edge of the flat-faced horizontal portion to admit the tongue of a mating splice-bar, a mating splice-bar having a downward projection or tongue coinciding in position with said notch, the abutting ends of two rails resting on the horizontal flatfaced portion of the chair, two cross-ties supporting the chair and all the parts connected by means of bolts and spikes in the manner set forth.

OWEN SULLIVAN.

Witnesses:

WM. J. PEASE, W. H. BENEDICT.