US734611A - Car-replacer. - Google Patents

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No. 734,611.y

PATENTED JULY z8, 1903. W. H. PRITGHARD.

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APPLICATION FILED'JAN. ZZ, 1903.

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PATENT CAR-REPLACER.

SPECIFICATIQN forming part of4 Letters Patent `No. 784,611, dated July 28, 1903. Application filed January 22| 19403.` :Serial No. 140,094. 'lNo model.)

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Be itkn own that I, WILLIAM H. PRITCIIARD, a citizen of theUnited States, residing at Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State of Indiana,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inCar-Replacers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in car-replacers, and is especially adapted for use in replacing derailed street-cars upon the comparatively flater flanged rail used in connection with paved surfaces; and the object of the invention is to provide a portable frog which will be very light in weight, so asto be easily handled by one man, also that it will be securely braced and anchored to prevent slipping and tilting sidewise under the action of the car-wheels.

The object also is to provide a replacer that will be strong and durable and that will not require a very considerable raisingof the carwheels to get theminto position on the rails.

I accomplish the objects of the invention l by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichv i Figure l is a top plan view of myimproved replacer in operative position upon the left Like characters of reference indicate like Y parts throughout the `several views of the drawings. y g i i A represents the railway-rail, having the horizontal flange l, over whichthefface of the car-wheel travels, and the horizontal flange-2 at the' lower level, forming the oifset or shoulder 3 between the two faces to engage the flange of the car-wheel andA hold it on the track.

B represents the paved surface of the street in which the railway is laid, which is approximately on alevel with the upper face of the liange l.

My replacer will preferably be made out of heavy sheet-steel, which is pressed while in a heated condition into proper shape in a .suitable mold. The lowest part of my re- I placer will be that part through its longitudivnal middle which is designed to lie against `the shonlder.3 upon the flange 2 of the railway-rail. The Walls of this longitudinal porl tion will be half-round in cross-section to form the groove or channel 4, and these walls will be continued on each side of the groove to form the wings 5 and 6. As the parts of the replacer on each side of the groove 4 differ from each other only in being of opposite or `reversed shapes and curves, the description *of one side will answer for both. The wings 5 and 6 start from a horizontal base-line ef e, which is straight so as to lie down close to the pavement, and they terminate in a line g h g at the opposite end of the replacers, which is also straight and parallel with the `edge e f e and which also lies flat against the pavement. Between the lines e f e and g h g the wings are curved upwardly in an arch, as shown in Fig. 2, in which it will be seen that the highest part is between the middle and the base-line ef e. Extending diagonally of each wing, beginning at e e on each `and running diagonally toward the middle `front h,'are the shoulders or offsets '7-7, and the portions of the wings between said offsets and the groove 4 have a downward slant, as shown inFigs. l and 4. This compound cur- Avatureof the inner wing-surfaces elevates the car-wheel that passes over it and at the same time causes it to slide by gravity toward the groove which it enters before the wheel leaves the replacer and is deposited by the groove in right position on the rail. When the wheel comes in contact with the shoulder 7, it is directed'by said shoulder over into the groove. e Longitudinalmovement of the replacer is `preventedby the` lugs or spurs 8, and lateral displacement is prevented also by the contact of the bottom of the groove 4 with'the shoulderof the rail on one side and `by the contact of the lugs 9 with the other or outer .side ofthe rail. l The replacer for the left railofthe` track will have the lugs 8 on the left wing; but for the right rail of the track the lugs will be part of the right wing, and in this alone will there be any difference between the replacers for the two rails.

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ral depression or channel, wings arched lon-v gitudinally and each having a diagonal offset, said wings having a downward lateral slope from said oiset to said channel.

5. A car-replacer having a longitudinal central channel, win gs sloping toward said channel and pendent lugs from said wings.

6. A car-replacer having a longitudinal central channel and wings that begin and end in horizontal edges, said wings being arched between said edges and said wings being integral with the walls of said channel and sloping downwardly thereto.

7. Acar-replacerhavingalongitudinal central channel and longitudinally-arched and laterally-sloping wings that' begin and end with straight horizontal ends, and lugs pendent from said ends.

In witness whereof-I have hereunto set my hand and seal, atPortsinouth, Ohio, this 17th day of January, A. D. 1903.

WILLIAM H. PRITCIIARD.

Witnesses:

SAM M. JOHNSON, EMMA J. JENNINGS.

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