US821950A - Rail-joint. - Google Patents

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PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

P. J. MILLER.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED 00130, 1905.

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PETER J. MILLER, oEMoUNTArNToP, PENNSYLVANIA.

"RAIL-JOINT Application filed October 30, 1905. Serial No. 285,131.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LPETER J. MILLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Mountaintop, in the county of Luzerne. and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ra l-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a rail-joint of extreme simplicity of construction and of that'type designed to obviate the use of nuts andbolts, to afford a firm and substantial bearing for the rails at the point of,

juncturaand to prevent likelihood of rounding off of the rail ends, which gives rise to jar and vibration undesirable for many reasons.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereor and also to acquire a knowledge ofthe details of construction of the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top plan view, dotted lines, showing most clearly the contour of the wedging angle-bar. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line X,X of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 isa vertical section taken on the line Y Y of Fig. 1.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

In the practical embodiment of the invention the railends 1 are scarfed, as shown at 2, to afford a. continuous bearing for the wheels of the rollingstock at the point where the. joint of the meeting ends is located. Each of the, rail ends is cut away to afl' rd the scarf connection before mentioned, and said ends overlap in a, manner whichwill be readily noted to accomplish the desired result. The joint means attaching the rail ends together embodies a chair 3, having upwardly-extending flanges or wings 4 and 5 longitudinally thereof, the flange 4 being adapted to abut with the base portion of the rail ends at one side thereof to afford a lateral hearing at such side. The other flange or wing 5 is not designed to directly engage the rail ends, but is in spaced relation thereto, cooperating with a wedging angle bar 6, adapted to be forced between said. flange 5 and the adjacent side portions of the ends of the rails 1. The angle-bar 6 is composed of vertical and horizontal portions 3 integrally formed in the accustomed way;

'end arranged to engage the u wing 5 and the adjacent side portion of the rails a wedging QGtIOII Will be obtained, so as to firmly clamp the rail ends in the chair 3. The lower edge portion of the bar 6 is formed with a foot 6, which operates between the angle formed by the'wing 5 relative to the base of the chair 3 and the adjacent edge of the base of the rails. Thus the angle-bar 6 gets a double wedging action in regard to the lower and upper portions thereof to subserve the efficiency of the same in clamping the parts 1 to the chair 3. understood that the side of the chair 3 at which the angle-bar 6 is arran ed is so formed that the space between the ange 5 and the rails will be'virtually'a tapering seat to receive said member 6. l

The member 6 is revented from displacement from the chair b means of spikes or vertical fastenings 7, w ich pass through the chair 3, through the wedging member 6, and enter notches 8 in the upper edge portion of the flange or wing 5. The openings in the bar 6, through which the spikes or fastenings 7 It will of course be pass, are elongated, so as to permit of adjustment of the member 6 after having once been placed. in position. The member 6 is prevented from movement by means of a set-screw. 9, which is screwed into a vertical opening in the wing 5 and which-has its lower foot portion of the said anglear 6. Should the angle-bar 6 become slightly loose due to vibration and jar of the rolling-stock, it will be obvious that a blow or two upon an end of the bar 6, forcing the same more firmly into the chair, willreadily increase the wedging action thereof and effectively clamp the parts as described. The set-screw 9 can then be adjusted so as to positively hold the memher 6 in its proper position. Certain of the spikes 7 also pass vertically through the chair flange 4 thereof on the side of the rail opposite that at which the angle- 3 and the'wing or bar 6 is disposed. The spike-openings can be arranged as desired in order to secure the best and most substantial attachment for the chair 3, and said spikes will pass into the ties of the road-bed in the customary way.

Having thus described the inventlon, what is claimed as new is- A rail-joint embddying the meeting ends of rails, the chair 3 therefor, the wing 4 projecting upwardly from one longitudinal edge of the chair 3 and bearing against the rail ends at one side thereof, the wing 5 projecting up per side of the Wardly from the chair 3 at the opposite edge thereof and in spaced relation to the rail ends, the Wedging angle -'bar 6 wedged into the 'space between the flange 5 and the adjacent 5 slde portion of the rail ends, the fastening's 7 passlng vertically through the chair 3 and =flange 4 on one side of the rail ends, the fastenings 7 passing through the chair 3, the flange.

5 and the angle-bar 6 at the opposite side of IO the rail ends and preventing displacement of the angle-bar 6, the angle-bar 6 bein formed with elongated openings through W ioh the of the angle-bar 6 to hold the same 1n an ad justed position,- as specified In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PETER J. MILLER. [L.S.]

Witnesses: 1

R. E. KooNs, JACOB BUNG.

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