US801142A - Splice-bar. - Google Patents

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No. 801,142. PATENTED OCT. 3,1905. G. ERIGSON.

SPLICE BAR.

APPLICATION FILED MAB..24, 1905- UNITED sTArns PATENT @FFICE.

SPLICE-BAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 3, 1905.

Application filed March 24, 1905. Serial No. 251,920.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GUsTAvn ERICSON, a citizen of, the United States, residing at New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Splice-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to rail-joints, and especially to an improved form of splice-bar for connecting the meeting ends of a pair of rail-sections; and has for its objects to produce a comparatively simple inexpensive device of this character which will materiallv increase the strength of the rails at the joint one whereby relative vertical movement of the rail-sections, and consequent pounding of the ends of the latter, are obviated,and one wherein dust or other foreign matter entering the splice-bar at the point of meeting of the sections will be freely discharged.

To these ends the invention comprises the novel features of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a rail-joint embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section taken on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is adetail perspective view of a portion of one of the rail-sections. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the improved splice-bar.

Referring to the drawings, 1 1 designate the rail-sections adapted to be arranged in endwise relation and each comprising, as usual, a tread 2, a web 3, and a base-flange 4:, the meeting ends of the rails being coincidently beveled in a transverse direction, as seen at 5 in Fig. 1, while the base-flanges 4 are terminated at a point suitably remote from the meeting ends of the sections 1 to produce extensions 6, as seen in Fig. 3.

My improved splice-bar, as seen in Fig. 4, comprises a base-flange and a pair of vertically -uprising side plates or webs 8, spaced transversely to produce therehetween a socket or seat 9, there being formed at the longitudinal center of the splice-bar at a point between the side plates 8 and through the base-flange 7 averticalescape-opening 10, designed for a purpose which will more fully hereinafter appear.

In practice the splice-bar is secured in position upon a pair of cross-ties 11 by means of spikes or other fastening devices entered in transverse notches or seats 12, formed at appropriate intervals in the base-flange 7, and the webs of the projecting portions 6 of the rail-sections are entered longitudinally and from opposite ends between the side plates 8 of the splice-bar, the ends of the rail-sections being adapted to meet at a point above and in register with the opening 10. After entrance of the ends of the rails into the seat 9 of the splice-bar the rail-sections are secured to the ties by means of spikes or other fastening members designed to be received by seats or recesses 13 at the edges of the flanges 4. and to the splice-bar by transverse bolts 14,.entered through openings 15, formed through the side plates 8 and adapted to register with slightly-elongated openings 16, formed in the webs 3 of the rail-sections.

It is to be observed that under the foregoing construction the meeting ends of the rails will be maintained in secure assemblage by the splice-bar and that owing to the upper edges of the plates 8 bearing beneath the head or tread 2 relative vertical movement of the rail ends, and consequent pounding of the latter, are wholly obviated, while at the same time relative lateral movement of the railsections at the joint is prevented through engagement of the beveled ends 5. Further, it will be noted that expansion and retraction of the rail-sections are provided for by the elongated bolt-receiving openings 16 and that dust or other foreign matter which may enter into the seat 9 of the splice-bar between the ends of the rail-sections will escape freely through the opening 10.

From the foregoing it is apparent thatI produce a simple inexpensive device which in practice will be strong and durable and one which will efficiently perform its functions to the attainment of the ends in view, it being understood that minor changes in the details herein set forth may be resorted to without departing from the spirit of the invention.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a railjoint, a pair of rail-sections adapted for assembling in endwise relation and each comprising a head, a web and a basefiange, the base-flanges being terminated at a point remote from the meeting ends of the rails to produce extensions, a splice-bar comprising a base-flange and a pair of side plates spaced to produce a seat, the rail extensions being designed for entrance into said seat, and transverse connecting-bolts entered through the splice-bar and rail-sections.

2. In a railjoint, a pair of rail-sections adapted for assembling in endwise relation and having their base-flanges terminated at a point remote from their meeting ends to produce extensions, a splice-bar comprising a base and a pair of uprising transverse]y-spaced Versely through the splice-bar and rail-sec- IO tions.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

web portions of said extensions, said splicebar being provided at a point coincident with the meeting ends of the rails with an escapeopening, and fastening members entered trans- Witnesses:

HENRY RABANUS, HAROLD S. Bnssnn.

i i 5 plates designed to receive between them the GUSTAVE ERICSON

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