US70271A

US70271A - Of hacke-nsack

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Publication number: US70271A
Authority: US
Publication date: 1867-10-29
Anticipated expiration: 1884-10-29

Description

h @nini-r' gisten gat-tnt @frn B. J. ROMAINE, OF HAGKE-NSACK, NEW JERSEY. Letters Patent No. 70,271, dated October 29, 1867; antedated May 1, 1867.

IMPROVED RAILROAD-GEAR.

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T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

K Be it known that I, B. J. ROMAINE, of Hackensack, Bergen county, New Jersey, have invented a. new and improved Railroad-Chair; and I do hereby declare that the following` is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the-same, reference being had to the accom- -panying drawings, forming part of this specification, in whichl l l Figure 1 represents afside view of my improved railroad-chair, and

Figure 2 is a vertical eross-section-of the same, taken o n` the line zum, fig. 1. Similar letters of reference indicutecorresponding parts. N This 'invention re-latesto a new railroad-chair, which consists of wrought-iron plates, beut'to enclose the sides of the rails, and resting upon two sleepers, being long enough to reaehbetween them. These plates extenddownwards below thev rail, and are held togetherand connected by means of bolts ,orscrews passing` through l these downward projections.v l

The advantage of-this chair or joint over those now in use is that'the rails are not weakened by bolts passing through them; that the rails are irinly'supported and prevented from .jarring or shaking, but not from expanding and contracting. '.lhis ,chair can be applied to new rails as well as to broken ones. A A are the ends ofv two rails which are to be supported by a chair. vThe joint is arranged about midway betweentwo sleepers, as shown. 'C C are two wrought-iron plates, of which one is securedon either side ofthe rail. Each of these plates is bent around the side of the rail, so as tolle Hush against the rail, Yand is bent around the lower edge,and1aid underneath a portion ofthe bottom of' the rail, as shown.V The rails are thus well clasped by .these plates. From the bottom of the rails these plates are heut downward in ai verticalv direction, (see fig. 2,) to receive the bolts a, *bywhich these lower parts are clamped together. Thee-loser they are drawn together by the bolts the more will the plates press against the under side ofthe rails, and the said rails will thus be completely supported. The ends ofthe platesrest upon the sleepersB B,A as shown in fig. 1. The bolts a a are provided with n uts b, and elastic washers c,'as shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, und desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The wrought-iron plates C upon each-side ofthe rail, their upper portions bent to receive the flange of the rail an'd embrace the web, lying flush therewith; their lower ends bent at right angles, and adjusted nearer to or further from each other by means of the screw a and nut b, the projecting lportion of thecurved upper part under the ange of the railresting upon thefties, as herein described for the'purpose specied.

B. J.' ROMAINE.

Witnesses: l l, WILLIAM HAYLEN, ,i GILLIAM' J. .Rectum