US71308A - Improved eallwat-switoh - Google Patents

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CHARLES y HIMSELF AND'J.y S. JARDINE, or THE SAME PLACE.

vLettere Patent No. 71,30S, .dated November 26, 1867.

IMPROVED RAILWAY-SWITCH.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONGERN:

Be it known that I, CHARLES WY. JONES, 'of the lcity of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Railroad Safety-Switches,` and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a true and exact description' thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, `in which is showna plan vewof my invention.`

The object of my invention is to provide a railroad safety-switch, by means of which, and without using any broken rails on the Vmain track, I can always switch the rails the required distance, and also guide a train either way from the triple track.

To enable others skilled in the art to make andnis'e vroy invention, I will now proceed to describe its con-V struction and operation.

I fasten rails A and B together by means of cross-ties D D D, placed alternately and parallely betweerrthe f sleepers or blocks S S, on which the rails are ordinarily set and fastened. L its av lever, having its fulerum in F on sleeper S S, and fastened on tie D D. S P is a spring, which will bring, rails Aand B to their former positions when the operator ceases to act on lever L. Rail B is curved, and forms track witlrportion of `rail P R, as well as rail A forms track with portion of railP R Rails A and B are therefore unbroken rails the entire length of theroad, even whenV they no longer form with track. The drawing shows how rails P R and P R respectively meet rails A and B. It is proper to remark that rails P R and P R arel both fastened as "7, usual on to sleepers S S S, where they are int-ended to remain rigidly in the some position, and also that atV suitable dist-ance from the points where rails P R and P R, A and B meet, rails A and B are fastened to the sleeper, sayin S 1 and S 10. Now, a train coming up from the single track will be guided either way by springing thetwoirails A and B by means of lever L the required distance to match the points of railsQ, And again, if the train comes from the double track, the Harige of the wheel will always act as a-wedge, and set rails A B either way, when they receive the pressure, to their proper place against Arails P R and P R, thusmaking` a perfect safety-switch with continuous unbroken rails.`

Having thus described my invention, what Iolaim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent i of the United States,ris-

A safety-switch, composed of vibrating rails A and B, fastened together by means of mb'ile crosslties, D

` D, point rails P R and P R', lever L and spring S P, the whole combined, constructed, and operated in the manner and for the purpose above set forth and described.

CEAS. W. JONES. [1.; A]

Witnesses:

CHARLES I-I. EVANS, J. H. BAUDEN.

W. JONES, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGrNOR T O

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