US776006A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

Description

No. 776.006. PATENTED ,Nov. 29. 1904. J. H; ALLEN.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED I'BBJZG, 1904.

N0 MODEL.

la/11225.40 WITNESSES; \NVENTOR ATTORNEY.

Srarns Patented November 29, 1904.

JOHN H. ALLEN, OF EAST ORANGE, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE CONTINUOUS RAlL JOlN'l COMPANY OF AMERICA, AOORPORAJTION OF NEl V JERSEY.

RAM-JOINT.

SPECIFICATIONfOIming part of Letters Patent NO. 776,006, dated O bBI' 29, 1904. Application filed February 26, 1904. Serial No. 195,396 (No model.)

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Be it known that I, J OHN Hi. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the county of Essex and State of New J ersey, have in vented certain new and useful .lrnprovements in Rail-Joints; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the, art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The objects of this invention are to secure greater rigidity, strength, and durability in a rail-joint and to secure other advantages and results, some of which may be referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of the working parts.

The invention consists in the improved railjoint, in the rail connections therefor, and in the arrangements and combinations of parts of the same, all substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embraced in the claims.

Referring to the accompanying drawings in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the figures, Figure 1 is an end elevation of one of the rails and the connecting-plates, and Fig. 2 isa plan of the improved joint.

In the drawings 5 5 indicate the rails. 6 6 are the connecting-plates or angle-bars, disposed at opposite sides of said rail-s and held in connection therewith by suitable bolts 7 in any ordinary manner, the upper parts of the said angle-bars 6 being of any usual construction adapted to bear against the under side of the heads 51 of the rails and upon the top sides of the base-flanges 5.2 of said rails, the bearing-surfaces of said angle-bars against said heads and base-flanges being oppositely inclined, as indicated in Fig. 1, to enable the said connecting angle-bars to be wedged between said parts, and thus rigidly and firmly holding said rail in alinenient, as will be understood.

At the lower outer edges of the approximately horizontal portions 61 of the angleposed near the opposite ends of the anglebars, so as to enable the said bars and base plates to be splked to the ties, the space be- I tween which is bridged by the said bars and base-plates.

Underneath the base-flange of the rail are arranged. two overlapping hook-shaped baseplates 9 9 of peculiar construction, the outer ends of which extend laterally beyond the flanges 52 of the rails and, are bent upward or are doubled to form longitudinal hooks, the metal in the hook-shaped parts being suitably thicker than the overlapping inner parts 92 of the said base-plates. \Vhen the overlapping parts 92 are brought together, the said overlapping parts together will be of a thickness about equal to the thickness of each of the outer parts 93. The overlapping parts are flat, so that one part can slide on the other transversely of the rail without affecting the elevation of said rail with respect to. the ties on which it is supported. Said innor and thinner overlapping parts 92 are of a width a little greater than the width of the base-flange 52 of the rail, as shown, and the doubled parts are so disposed that the extensions 91 hook upon the toes 62 of the connecting-rflates. The base-plates 9 extend beneath the rail and form a broad bearing for the ties and a firm seat for the rails. The hooked parts of said overlapping base-plates are Vertieally perforated, as at 94, to receive the spikes (not shown) by which said parts are secured to the ties.

In assembling the parts to form the joint the rail-connecting plates 6 are bolted together and are brought to their bearings by screwing up the nuts of the bolt 7 in the usual manner, and then the base-plates are driven home by a spiking-maul and afterward piked in place.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. The combination with the railway-rails, of connecting-plates bolted at opposite sides of said rails and having toes at their lower, outer edges, which extend laterally and downward to the level of the under side of the rail, of base-plates overlapping one another heneath the rails and having their upper surfaces lie flush with the bottom of the rail at points horizontally beyond the said bottom, the outer edges of said base-plates being hooked over said toes at their outer parts, substan tially as set forth.

2. The combination with the rails, of connecting plates having longitudinal toes at their lower projecting edges, and hookedshaped base-plates caught upon said toes and having overlapping, reduced fiat inner parts beneath the rail, substantially as set forth.

3. A connection for railway-rails comprising angle-bars having toes at their lower longitudinal edges and base-plates having hooked outer parts to engage the toes, and horizontal parts to lie beneath the rails, the hooked parts being perforated to receive spikes for fastening said base-plates to the ties, substantially as set forth.

4. In a railway-joint, the combination with angle-bars having toes extending from end to end thereof, of base-plates extending underneath the rail and at their outer edges having hooked parts engaging the toes from end to end thereof, substantially as set forth.

5. In a railway-joint, the combination with the angle-bars having toes extending from end to end thereof, of base-plates extending underneath the rail and at their outer edges having hooked parts engaging the ,toes from end to end thereof, said base-plate being perforated and the toes correspondingly notched to enable spikes to be'driven through said parts.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 11th day of February, 1904.

JOHN H. ALLEN. Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, C. B. PITNEY.

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