US756247A

US756247A - Device for preventing rails of railway-tracks from spreading.

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Publication number: US756247A
Application number: US18510703A
Authority: US
Inventors: Joshua D Legge
Original assignee: MARCUS A BENNETT; MELVIN R MILLINS
Current assignee: MARCUS A BENNETT; MELVIN R MILLINS
Priority date: 1903-12-14
Filing date: 1903-12-14
Publication date: 1904-04-05
Anticipated expiration: 1921-04-05

Description

No. 756,247. PATENTED APR. 5, 1904.

J. D. LEGGE.

DEVICE FOR PREVENTING RAILS OP 'RAILWAY TRAKS FROM lSPREADINGl y APPLICATION FILED DED.. 14, 1903.

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UNITED STATES Patented April 5, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

JOSHUA D. LEGGE, HANCOCK, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARCUS A. BENNETT AND MELVIN R. MILLINS, OF EAST NASSAU,

NEW YORK.

DEVICE FOR PRYEVENTING RAILS F RAILWAY-TRACKS FROM SPREADING.

SPECIFICATION forming' part 0f Letters Patent N0. 756,247, dated Apri] 5, 1904.

Application led December 14, 1903. Serial No. 185,107. (No model.) *Y

To all whom it may concern:-

Be it known that I, JOSHUA D. LEGGE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hancock, in the county of Delaware and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Devices for Preventing Rails'of Railway-Tracks from Spreading, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates` todevices for pre- IO venting rails of railway-tracks from spreading; and it consists of novel devices and parts and novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.` I 5 The object of this invention is to provide, in combination with a railway-rail and the ties on which the rail may be mounted, a railbrace, a brace-support, and a brace-tie which may coact with the outer end portion of a tie and with the outer side of the rail mounted on said tie, whereby the rail will be strongly braced from its outer side and hold the same from being crowded outwardly from its normal placement on the ties. Other objects and advantages will be clearly understood from a reading of this description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speciiication, in which- Figure l is a plan of a rail and ties of a railway-track, (a section,) showing this invention applied to abutting rail-joints. Fig. 2 is a plan ofthe same applied to rails having lipjoints. Fig. 3A is a section of end portion of' a wood tie, rail mounted ony the same, and the novel parts of this'invention secured in place for operating with the rail from its outer side. Fig. 4: is a plan of the rail-brace. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 6 is a plan of the brace-tie plate. Fig. 7 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 8 is a plan of the brace-support. Fig. Y9 is a side edge elevation of the same. Fig. 10 is a plan of the inner side plate serving as a fish-plate, and Fig. 1l is a side edge view of the same. l

Similar letters of reference refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings, A A A are rails of a railway-track, made of steel and secured to ties B B by spikes a a and laid with ends of rails abutting each other or with lapping joints, as are practiced in railways.

C C are rail-braces embodying the features of this invention, employed two or more in each length of rails A. These rail-braces are made, preferably, to be duplicates of each other in respect to the essential features and elements which the said braces embody. A description of one of theserail-braces will sufce for that ofthe other.

` The rail-brace C is made'to embody head C', body C2, and foot C3, all made integral and preferably from a bar of steel rolled out by suitable rolls, as employed in rolling-mills,

and then cut, preferably while yet red-hot, as

practiced. VThe head C comprises projection o, upper side recess c', and lower side recess c2, Vall integral, as` shown. The body C2 connects head C with the foot C3 and is made with a gradually-thickened portion c3 between 7o said head and foot portions for giving to the said body an element for preventing said body portion C2 from bending or buckling under endwise pressure or thrust.d The f oot portion C3 of this brace is made with a horizontal lower 7 5 line of bearing-surface o4c and is provided with openings or notches c5, made in it from its outer end edge c6. The said lower line of bearing-surface c5 of foot C3 is preferably made from two to four inches in length, or more or less, according to the height ofthe rail to be' braced, or the service the rail is to render, or as both its height and service may seemdto require or tests of endurance thrust may demonstrate to be best. These rail-braces Cmay be made in width from two to eight'inches, or more or less', according to the height of the rail-tread above the base of the rail, or the service the rail isto give, or as both may require for best results. 9o

D Dl are vertical brace-supports secured upright against the outer side of rail or rails A by suitable bolts CZ, one or more, passed through said support and through correspond# ing perforations through the vertical web a, which connects the tread portion a of the rail with base portion @Tof the same. This bracesupport is made in its vertical extension from base portion a2 upward toward the lower side a3 of the tread portion c' as will nicely adjust projection c of the head portion 'C' ofthe brace to between the upper end' of the basesupportvD and the said lower side a3 of the tread portion of the rail, while the opposite side plate D may be extended up from base a2 of the rail to and against the lower side of the tread, as shown. These plates D and D may be made with a greater length than the width of the brace C, so as to serve as iishplates when preferred.

E is the brace-tie plate, which is arranged between the end portions B' B of the wood tie and the base a of the rail and the foot portion C3 of the rail-brace C. This brace-tie is made preferably of steel and with a width corresponding with that of the foot C3 of the said brace and is provided at its brace end with an upturned iange e for abutment against the outer end edge C of the foot end of the brace, and its opposite end is provided with a similar flange e for holding with the inner side edge of the base (t3 of the rail.

In applying my above-described improved rail-brace, brace-tie, and brace-support to rails and the ties of a railway the wood ties B Will be laid as is the practice and the rails A will also be laid parallel with each other with the brace-ties E between the Outer end p0rtions of the wood ties and the base of each rail and at suitable intervals apart, with a brace and its brace-tie and brace-support at each joint of the rails, (within butt-joint or lap-joints of the same.) The wood ties to which the rail-brace C is to be applied are of such length as may allow the outer end portions B to project outward each way past the base of the rails and have a suitable extension from the latter as to permit braces C to be applied by their heads C to the said rails and to the ties by their foot ends C3 after the brace-tie plates have been placed and still have a suflicient extension for receiving spikes F to be driven into the wood of said extensions of end portions B of the tie and hold with the same. In placing these several parts in their order of arrangement shown I prefer to lirst place the brace-tie plate on the ties B, which are to bear the same, then set the rails A on the inner end portions of said brace-tie plates with the flange e against the inner edge of the base of each rail and with the perforations or notches e2 in the flange e registering with the notches b in the inner edge of the base of each rail. The brace-supports D are then placed against the rails and at opposite the joints of the same when the ends of the rails are to be braced and are secured in place against the web portion L of the rail with its perforations d registering with perforations in the said web and those in the opposite side plate D', when said plates D and D will be secured against the sides of Web a of the rails with brace-support D against the outer side of said webs. The rail-braces C will now be applied to the outer side of rails A with its projection c between lower side of the tread of the rail and the upper end edge of the bracesupport D and with its end bearing against the upper portion of web a, as shown, while the inner sides of recesses c c2 in the head C of said brace have bearing against the sides of said tread of the rail and against the outer side of the upper end of the brace-supports,

lwhich are rigidly secured to the outer side of the web of the rail and supported from the upper side of the base of the same. The foot portion C3 of the rail-brace is applied to the iianged outer end portion of the brace-tie with its notches or openings c5 registering with the notches in the brace-tie plate, when said foot portion of the brace, together with the outer end portion of the brace-tie, will be rigidly secured to the outer end portion B of the wood tie B, when the rail or rails will be strongly supported from being crowded outwardly by any pressure against the rail from its inner side as rails of curves of tracks are subjected to by the pressure exerted against such rails in curves by the wheels of the rolling-stock moving on said rails.

I prefer to employ one of braces C, together with a brace-support and a brace-tie, at the joints of all curving rails and to provide such parts with bodies of similar width, so as to give ample support to the ends of the two abutting rails or rails of lap-joints,.while the said braces, brace-supports, and brace-ties for operations may be of less Width and be placed in number of one or more at preferred points in the length of each straight rail, While curved rails in curves of the track may have applied to them in their lengths several of the abovenamed devices at suitable intervals apart.

All the above-mentioned parts maybe produced cheaply from steel by process of rolling and cross-cutting of the barsvso produced.

Having described my invention, what I claim isl. In device for preventing rails of railwaytracks from spreading, the combination with a railway-rail of a rail-brace provided with a head for bearing against a side of the tread portion of a rail and a side of the vertical web adjoining said tread portion, and having a horizontal fiat-foot end portion connected with the said head end, by an inclined body portion with the lower side of said foot end portion on a plane with the lower side of the base portion of the rail, and a brace-tie plate interposed between both the base of the rail and the foot end of the brace, and devices for securing the rail and foot end of the brace and said brace-tie to an outer end portion of a tie.

2. In a device for preventing'rails of railway-tracks from,spreading, the combination with a tie a braced tie-plate provided at each TOO IIS

end with upward-extended anges and with openings for passage of spikes, and a rail having a base portion which may be secured to said tie, of a brace-support secured to the. off outer side of the web of the rail with its foot end on the upper side of the base of the same and extended up toward the lower side of the tread of the rail with an opening between the latter and said brace-support, and a rail-brace provided with a head portion, an inclined body portion and a foot portion, the head portion having bearing against an outer portion of the tread portion of the rail and the lower side of the same and against the web portion and on the upper end of the said brace portion, and the foot portion having bearing on the bracetie in a line on a plane with the lower side of the base of the rail and means for securing said rail, foot end of the rail-brace and the said brace-tie to the tie on which said rail, brace and brace-tie are mounted..

3. In a device for preventing rails of a railway-track from spreading, a rail-brace made of rolled steel and having a head portion, an-

inclined body portion, and a foot portion all integral, the head portion provided with a projection and recesses Jfor bearing against the tread portion of a rail at both a lateral side and a lower side of the same and for bearing on the upper end of a brace-support, the said inclined body portion gradually thickened from its ends to the middle of length thereof for counteracting tendency to springing and buckling, and the foot portion having its lower side on a plane with the lower side of the base of a rail, said rail-brace may be applied to and with end notches for receiving shapes for securing the foot end of said brace to an outerl end portion of a tie to which the rail may be