US825172A - Railway-track structure. - Google Patents

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No. 825,172. PATENTED JULY 3, 1906.

' v. ANGERER.

RAILWAY TRACK STRUCTURE.

APPLICATION EILED APR. 26, 1906.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

VICTOR ANGERER, OF RIDLEY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM \VHARTON. JR, & COMPANY, INCORPORATED, OF PHILA- DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented July 3, 1906.

uman filed April 26, 1906. Serial No. 313,826.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, V IOTOR ANGERER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania, have invented certain Improvements in Railway-Track Structures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in j oints benveen rails and track structurcs.

The object of my invention is to provide means for firmly seating and holding the rail to the structure.

In carrying out my invention I preferably make a space between the arms of the track structure and the body of the rail, so that a filling material may be inserted to provide an extended bearing for the rail both laterally and vertically, which will prevent wear of the securing parts and will also lock the securing par-Ls in place.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view illustrating my improved joint. Fig. 2 is a side view of one of the arms of a rail strucLure, the structure being in section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse sec.ional view on the line 3 3, Fig. 2, showing the rail in place prior to the introduction of the molten metal. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the same line, showing the complete joint; and Figs. 5 and 6 are views of modifications of my invention.

A is the railway-track structure, which may be of any form desired. In the present instance the drawings illustrate the end portion of a railway-frog having two projections A and A Each of these projections has two arms a a, shaped to conform to the rail to be introduced between the arms.

B is a rail, in the present instance of the girder type, having a head I; and a guard Z), a web 6 and a base-flange If. The groove between the head and the guard alines with the groove a in the track structure A.

The arms are of a sufficient distance apart so that there will be a clear space between said arms and the rail, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 3, and in order to secure the rail firmly to the track structure I mount in the present instance spacing-blocks i ion the shoulders of the arms, so that the head of the rail will rest upon these blocks.

I perforate the arms of the track structure at c and also perforate the web b of the rail at c, and when the rail is mounted in position a wedge C is driven through the perforations c c, the upper surface of the wedge being in contact with the upper walls of the slot 0 and the lower edge of the wedge being in contact with the upper wall of the slot 0 in the rail, and as the wedge is driven the rail is drawn down onto the spacing-block i until it is firmly fixed in proper alinement.

I preferably use two or more wedges, as clearly shown in Fig. 2 but one wedge may be used, if desired. After the wedges are driven in place the filling metal in a molten state is poured into the space between the rail and the arms of the track structure, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, filling the entire space, so as to form an extended bearing for the rail both laterally and vertically. This bearing will prevent wear of the securing parts and will also look the wedge in place, as it will be noted in Fig. 4 that the molten metal will enter the unoccupied portions of the slots in the rail and track structure. One end of the wedge may be turned up, as shown in Fig. 4, to prevent its accidental withdrawal, or the sides of the wedge may be roughened, as shown in Fig. 5, so that the molten metal may engage these roughened portions, or the end of the wedge may have a screw-threaded portion, as shown in Fig. 6, on which is mounted a nut 0 In fact, any device may be used to hold the wedges in position.

While I have illustrated my invention in Figs. 1 to 4, both inclusive, in connection with a rail structure in which the arms are the same depth as the base-flange of the rail, the arms may be less in depth than the base rail or may be elongated, as shown in Fig. 5, and may be united by a member extending under the rail, as shown in Fig. 6, without departing from the essential feature of my invention.

I claim 1. The combination of a track structure having arms, a rail mounted in the space between. the arms, spacing-blocks, and means for drawing the rail firmly in contact with the spacing-blocks, substantially as described.

2. The combination of a track structure having arms, a rail mounted between the arms, the inner surface of the arms being shaped so as to allow a spacebetween the arms and the rail, spacing-blocks in the space, E the head 01 the rail and the arms, slots in the means for drawing the rail firmly in contact Web of the rail and in the arms, and a wedge with the spacing-blocks, and filling metal arranged to be driven through the slots so as cast into the space forming a seat for the rail 1' to draw the rail down upon the spacing- 5 beyond the spacing-blocks, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a track structure having arms, a rail mounted between the arms, the arms being spaced a sufficient dis- [0 tance apart to allow for the insertion of filling metal between them and the rail, spacingblocks mounted between the under side of blocks, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

VICTOR ANGERER. l/Vitnesses:

WILL. A. BARR, Jos. H. KLEIN.

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