US665490A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

No. 665,490. Patented lan. 8, |90l.

M. WALDVOGEL. A

RAIL JOINT.

(Application filed May 4, 1900.)

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UNITED STATES NPATENT UEEICE.

MARTIN WALDVOGEL, OF ATCO, NEW JERSEY.

RAIL-JOINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 665,490, dated January 8, 1901.

Application led May 4, 1900.

To (tZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, MARTIN WALDvoeEL, a.

citizen of the United States, residing at Atco, j in the county of Camden and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Rail- Joint,of which the following isaspecication.

My invention relates to rail-joints; and it has for its object to produce a rail-joint which will be solid, strong, and durable, and which will form a substantially continuous rail, thereby avoiding the unevenness of the road or track which is caused by the construction and joining of the rails as used upon the railroads at the present time.

With this object in view my invention consists in the improved construction of a railjoint, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, in which the same reference-numerals indicate corresponding parts in each`of the views in which they occur, Figure l is a perspective vie-w of a section of track in which the rails are provided with my improved joint. longitudinal sectional View through one of the joints. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the ends of two rails forming my improved joint. Referring more particularly to the drawings, l and 2 indicate the rails for forming a railroad-track, which may be of any size or construction in cross-section and of any suitable length. Each end of each of the rails is provided with means for forming myimproved rail-joint. One of the rails is of substantially the same width from top to bottom, as shown at 3, and is recessed or hollowed out, as shown at 4, for a suitable distance, and the walls of the recess are provided with oppositely-disposed openings or cut-away portions 5. The top or treadpof the rail is cut away, as shown at 6, from the rear or inner end of the recess 4 to the end of the rail. Theopposite end of the rail has its face cut away, as shown at 7, and the web 8 is formed of substantially the same area in cross-section as the cross-sectional area of the recess 4, so that when the ends of two rails are joined together the web of the one will tit in the recess of the other, thereby holding the rails rigidly in Fig. 2 is a Serial No. 15,495. (No model.)

alinement with each other. The top or tread 9 of the rail will tit in the cut-away portion of the corresponding rail, so that it will lie perfectly smooth and dat with the tread of the other rail. -In this manner the abutting ends of the two rails are always held in perfect alinement with each other and any unevenness in the track caused by the ends of the rails being forced downward is entirely avoided. The web 8 is further provided with laterally-extending headed pins orprojections l0, which are adapted to lit into the notches or openings 5 in the walls of the end of the other rail. The web of the rail 2, adjacent to the end of the rail 1, is of substantially the same width from the top to the bottom, so as to correspond with the thickened portion 3 of the companion rail.

As above described, it will be seen that by forming each rail in the manner above described the companion ends of the adjacent rails can be interlocked with each other by simply dropping the end of rail 2 down into the end or box-like portion of rail 3 and nailing the rails to the ties in the ordinary manner. If desired, walls l1 on the end of rail l may be slightly tapered toward the top, so that when the bolts or headed pins of the rail 2 are slipped down into the notches or opention and draw the parts more firmly together, thus prod ucinga very rigid union between the two rails. As the rails at the joint are of substantially the same area in cross-section from top to bottom, it will be seen that a joint formed from rails as above described will possess greater strength at the joint than at any other point throughout its length, thereby preventing the possibility of the rails being spread laterally at their joints and avoiding the use of the ordinary plates and of nuts and bolts for securing them together, as is necessary with the rails in present use.

It will be understood that my improved railjoint can be used upon street-car tracks or any other place as readily and as satisfactorily as it can be used upon the ordinary railroad, thereby increasing its utility and rendering such tracks substantially continuous throughout their length.

Having thus fully described my invention,

ings 5 they will engage with this inclined por- IOO what I claim its new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In a rail-joint, the combination, with a rail provided with a box-like receptacle at its end, the Walls of which l(ire provided with open-topped transverse recesses, of a second rail, the end of which is reduced to fit in said box-like receptacle and its sides are provided with integral projections to enter said recesses, substantially as described.

2. In a, reil-joint, the combinatiomwith a rail, the end of which is provided with e boxlike receptacle, the Walls of which are provided with registering, opentopped transversely-arranged openings and the top or tread of the rail is cutaway down to seid recesses, of a second rail, the end of which is reduced and cut away to [it in said box-like receptacle and the tread at its upper edge is extended to the end of said reduced portion in position to fit within the out-away portion at the top of the other rail and the sides are provided with integral laterally-extending headed pins to enter the recesses in the walls of said box-like receptacle, substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a rail for railroads, one of the ends of which is provided With an open-topped box-like receptacle, the walls of which are inclined toward the top upon their outer surface, and provided With open-topped transverse recesses, the tread of the rail being cut away the entire length of said box-like receptacle, and the other end is reduced to substantially the sinne aree in cross-section us the cross-sectional area of the box-like receptacle, and the tread is extended to the end of the rail, the sides of said reduced portion being provided with integral laterally-projecting headed pins in position Lo engage with the inclined portion of the walls of said box-like receptacle, substantially as described.

MARTIN VVALDV() GEL.

Witnesses:

WM. H. NoRoRoss, FRANK S. BECKLEY.

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