US779309A - Combined rail-joint and tie. - Google Patents

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T. B. IPATTON.

COMBINED RAILJOINT AND TIE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. e, 1904.

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THOMAS B. PATTON, OF SMITHFIELD, PENNSYLVANIA.

COMBINED RAIL-JOINT AND TIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 779,309, dated January 3, 1905.

Application filed September 9,1904. Serial No. 223,914.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THoMAs B. PATTON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Smithfield, in the county of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain.

new and useful Improvements in a Combined Rail-Joint and T ie, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in combined metallic ties and rail-joints, and has for its object the provisionof novel means whereby two sections of rails may be easily secured together without the use of nuts and bolts; furthermore, to provide novel means that will permit the rails to expand and contract.

Another object of .the present invention is to provide a construction that will permit the rails to be easily joined together and readily removed when the occasion requires.

My invention still further aims to provide a construction of tie and rail-joint that when placed in position will prevent the rail from spreading; furthermore, one that will be extremely simple, strong, durable, and highly efiicient.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts to behereinafter more fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claims.

In describing the invention in detail reference is had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, and wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved tie and rail-joint. Fig. 2 is a similar view of amodified form thereof. Fig. 2 is a detached detail perspective view of one of the fish-plates. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the rails, showing the ends of the fish-plates and the tie in side elevation. Fig. 4 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the rail, fish-plate, and tie. Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the rails provided with my improved tie and rail-joint. Fig. 6 is a similar View as illustrated in Fig. 3, showing a modification of my improved device as illustrated in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Fig. 7 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 8 is a perspective View of one form of fish-plate as employed in the modified form of construction. Fig. 9 is a similar view of one of the ends of the rail as employed in the modified form of construction.

In the drawings the reference-numeral 1 represents a metallic cross-tie having a baseflange 2 and a head-flange 3. Intermediate the head and base flanges 2 and 3 are formed integral ribs 4. The head 3 and the web portion extending to the ribs 4 are partially cut away to receive the rails and fish-plate, the head 3 being sheared to form shoulders 5, engaging the fish-plates 6, which carry outwardly-extending flanges 7, the latter being lodged in the cut-away portions formed in the web of the tie. The rails 8 likewise are formed with ribs 9, which extend outwardly from the web portion of the rails to the inner face of the fish -plates, which have formed therein corresponding grooves 10 for the reception of ribs 9. The ends of the rails are also sheared, as shown in Figs. 7 and 9 of the drawings and as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 5 of the drawings. I preferably shear away a portion of the tread and web of one rail and also shear away a portion of the baseflange and web of the opposite meeting rail. It will also be noted that the fish-plates are slightly tapered, so. as to perform the wedging action when driven home between the web of the rail and seat formed in the tie. The modified form of my invention contains all the main features and elements of my preferred form of construction of tie, fish-plate, and rail, and a particular description of the same is thought unnecessary.

It will be seen that when my improved tie and rail-joints are placed in position the rails may be firmly held in place and that a lateral or upward displacement of the rails will be impossible. The many other advantages presented by my improved railjoint will be readily apparent from the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings. It will also be noted that various other changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirlt of my inventlon.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A metallic tie having recesses formed therein forming seats, rails carrying ribs upon their Web portions, and fish-plates secured in said seats and engaging said rails and tie.

2. In a device of the character described, the combination of metallic cross-ties carrying base and head flanges, said cross-ties having recesses formed therein forming seats, rails, outwardly-extending ribs formed upon the web portions of said rails, fish-plates having grooves formed in the inner faces, and flanges on their outer faces secured in said seats for the purpose set forth.

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