US816004A - Supporting device for railway-tracks. - Google Patents

Description

No. 816,004. PATENTED MAR. 27, 1906.

J'. T. 000mm.- SUPPORTING DEVICE FOR RAILWAY TRACKS.

APYLIOATION PILEDJAN. 2, 1906.

fltkomms' Mm I -UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES T. OOOHRAN, OF SYLAOAUGrLdALABAMA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD COCHRAN', OF SYLAOAUGA, ALABAMA.

SUPPORTING DEVICE- FoR RAILWAY-TRACKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 2'7, 1906.

Application filed January 2, 1906. Serial No. 294,105.

' cauga, in the county of Talladega and State of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements in Supporting Devices for Railway-Tracks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a portable and economical foundation or support for the rails of a railway-track, and especially adapted for use with tracks that have to be fre quently moved from one position to another,

, as in marble quarriesutilizing portable drills.

The primary object of the invention. is to provide means for supporting rails in parallel relation, that may be readily set up or disposed in proper position for holding the rails, and to overcome the necessity of using ties or other cross supporting devices now commonly employed for holding rai'ls.

After the rails are di'sposed'in the supports embodying the features of the invention it is proposed at times and where found necessary to connect such rails by braces; but this is an obvious expedient and well known in the art of track-laying. Y

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts which will be more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawings, F1 ure 1 is a side elevation of a track-rail, s owing the improved supporting means applied'thereto. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through one of the supporting devices. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a portion of a rail and illustrating a longitudinal section of the sup orting means, the section being taken direct y through the joint of the two members of such supporting means.

Similar numerals of reference are employed keeper 4, the flanges when the two members are assembled forming a seat 5 forthe' base of the rail. The member 2 of the head has a socket 6, extending upwardly thereinto and opening out through the bottom thereof and also outwardly through the inner side ofsaid member, the inner open side of the socket being closed by the member 3 when the two members are assembled, as clearly shown by Fig. 2. The socket 6 is located centrally with respect to the members of the head, and removably fitted therein is a post 7, which may be varied in length, or, in other words, posts of different lengths may be'inserted in the heads of the several supporting-pillows used to accommodate the necessary rigidity of support for the track-rails and also the character; of the ground or other material into which the posts are projected.

Th two members 2 and 3 of the head are coupled by nutted bolts 8, disposed on opposite sides of the center and operating to firmly secure the members 2 and 3 together and hold the post 7 firmly within the socket 6. In order to prevent wear directly from the upper terminal of the socket 6, space-strips 9 of suitable material are inserted in the socket and engaged by the upper end of the post, these strips being freely insertible and removable from the inner open side of the socket. These space-strips 9 also serve to project the posts 7 varying distances from the head, and

the number of said strips may be increased or decreased, as desired. Y

The members 2 and 3 and the posts 7 are disposed at regular intervals to receive the rails and at such transverse distances apart as to accommodate the gage of the track required. The posts 7 areembedded in the ground, the latter being first prepared for this purpose, and the bases of the rails are first rested on the upper end of the member 2 under the flange 4 thereof and'the member 3 afterward applied and secured by the nutted bolts, the two flanges 4 of the members when the said members are assembled firmly holding the bases of the rails in the seats 5. At any time desired the nutted bolts 8 may be detached to remove the rails and transferred to some other point and set up, as just explained.

The improved supporting means will be found exceptionally convenient and useful for the purpose for which they have been devised, and in their construction suitable material will be used to render them durable.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. In a supporting device of the class set forth, the combination of a head composed of 2. In a supporting device of the class set forth, the combination of a head composed of two members, one of which has a socket therein opening through the lower end and inner side thereof and the other forming a closure for the inner portion of said socket, both members having inwardly-projecting flanges at their upper extremities, separate pieces inserted in the socket and bearing against the .upper end of the latter, a post removably disposed in the socket, and transversely-extending pairs of connecting-bolts inserted through both members on opposite sides of the socket.

'In testimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES T. COCHRAN.

Witnesses:

J. W. LANGLEY, COLEMAN CowE'rT.

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